Foreign Affairs committee  I'll take a quick whack at that. I used a lot of examples of technologies. One of the things we've learned at Grand Challenges Canada is that you have to integrate technological, social, and business innovation. As a concrete example, one of the innovations we have is called “n

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a fantastic question, and here's another area where Canada has stepped forward, introducing the UN resolution on early and forced child marriage. The most detrimental effect on a young girl is that she dies, and this is a tragedy. This is about young children being force

Foreign Affairs committee  Obviously, one needs to move toward innovative solutions here. Just to take a concrete example, I'd like to point out that many of the innovations here are social innovations. There's a group working in West Africa—initially on female genital mutilation, more recently on child

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I think the best way to think about it is that you have risk factors and interventions, and then you have outcomes and results. There are many risk factors and interventions, but I like to boil it down into three categories: first, the biological stuff, which is nutri

Foreign Affairs committee  Great. Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity. Truly, one of the learnings was that the concrete examples of simple innovations that are low cost, and that have a big impact, really did resonate with the participants at the conference, and I think they resonated with

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for your question, Madame Laverdière. Obviously, there's a continuum of things that starts with maternal neonatal survival, that goes through to early child development, that goes to education. It should be seen as a continuum. It is fair to say that differe

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I really appreciate the opportunity to be here. I really want to make one simple point here today. Canada's approach to child protection should begin by protecting children's brains in the first thousand days of life, starting from just before conception thr