Health committee  Well, that study did turn up a high rate of alcohol exposure to the newborns. But if you estimate that 40% of those infants would actually be affected by FASD--which I think is the figure that's used, and I'm not sure where it comes from--you end up with perhaps 1%, which is in l

Health committee  The researcher who did the meconium studies is Dr. Gideon Koren from the Hospital for Sick Children. He did a fairly extensive study in Grey-Bruce County in Ontario. Obviously, that's something that would need to be extended to other parts of the country if you wanted to have a r

Health committee  Yes, I could certainly do that.

Health committee  We have a database, through which we have records of the research that has been funded in the past and that is currently being funded. I have to say there's not a huge amount of capacity in Canada. We currently have five research projects funded. In the past there have been some

Health committee  The central registry would be our database, really.

Health committee  There is not a lot of research going on at CIHR relating to surveillance or evidence about incidents and prevalence. We do have a couple of programs that have been funded in the past, and that are currently funded, dealing with community-based research in aboriginal communities a

Health committee  CIHR has several mechanisms for funding research in the area of FASD. One of them, and the area where most of the money has actually gone, is our twice-yearly open competition, through which researchers in any area of interest can submit an application and be funded for an operat

Health committee  I'm Barbara Beckett with the CIHR.