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Minister announces leadership chair in early childhood development
October 18, 2007
From left, Dr. Geoff Hammond, scienitific director of Child and Family Research Institute, Dr. Clyde Hertzman, director, Human Early Learning Partnership, Dr. Martha Salcudean, chair of LEEF board of directors, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, and Dr. Tim Oberlander, representing Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children at the announcement of the $4.5 million Sunny Hill Health Centre B.C. Leadership Chair in Early Childhood Development. The chair's research will focus on disorders of mental and physical health in early life, and offer new insights into why children growing up in stressful or impoverished circumstances sustain a larger share of illness and misfortune. The B.C. Leadership Chair in ECD is part of the initial provincial commitment of $45 million for LEEF and helps fullfill government's commitment to establish 20 permanent leadership chairs across British Columbia.
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