Certainly I can answer that question.
There are different kinds of data, first of all. There is the kind of data you would collect through surveillance processes, which is primarily under the province of Statistics Canada and the Public Health Agency in Health Canada. CIHR funds small surveillance-type projects, but not necessarily the larger surveillance projects, although we work with our partners. This evening I'll be at a meeting for the Canadian Health Measures Survey, where we're trying to collect physical measures on Canadians. Ultimately we would hope that it will be a longitudinal survey.
So there are those kinds of data, and then there are the data that help us understand what works, for whom, and under what conditions. CIHR has been working very hard to support researchers to answer those questions: what kinds of interventions work.
The Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, although focused on obesity for the last five years, is now, in our strategic plan that's about to be launched, becoming even more strategic. We've funded a lot of research on what the problems are, but really what we need to do is understand what solutions work, what the most effective approaches are.
Going forward, we will only support, through our strategic funding, research on prevention and treatment of childhood obesity—and adult obesity as well, because they're certainly linked.
Those are critical areas, and we are becoming as focused as we can within our resources to ensure that the research community gets focused on what's important to Canadians around this problem.