ACHIEVE Research

10/04/2022

Congratulations to Dr. Jim Kellner for winning the prestigious Alberta Medical Association's Medal for Distinguished Service! Dr. Kellner is many things to our research team: leader, colleague, mentor, and friend, and we are thrilled to see him recognized for his hard work.

Read more about his award here:https://www.albertadoctors.org/about%20the%20ama_awards/ama-agm-2022-booklet.pdf

09/19/2022

FINISHED! After 2 years, thousands of lollipops, air high-fives, endless smiles, and a few tears, we are proud to announce that 4,243 blood samples were collected from the 1,035 children enrolled in the Alberta Childhood COVID-19 Cohort study.

We are filled with gratitude for the children who contributed to science, their parents for agreeing to participate, our funders (Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation and YourAlberta (Government of Alberta) and the staff who worked on the AB3C serology project. Stay tuned for results from all this work!

08/15/2022

Publication alert! 🦠Our ACHIEVE Team has been a part of a recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, where researchers determined the incidence of significant health events among pregnant women after COVID-19 vaccination.

Spoiler: The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were proven to be safe for pregnant women. Vaccinated pregnant women were found to have the least amount of adverse health events following dose 2 of the mRNA-1273 vaccine. Since COVD-19 can cause significant complications in pregnancy, it is important that women are provided reassuring evidence that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are safe in pregnancy. 🤰

THANK YOU to the ~90,000 Albertans who enrolled in our study!

🔗Open the access article at the link in our bio or copy the link into your browser: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00426-1/fulltext

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have a good safety profile in pregnancy. These data can be used to appropriately inform pregnant people regarding reactogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, and should be considered alongside effectiveness and immunogenicity data to make appropriate recommendations....

07/14/2022

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is now approved for children ages 6 months and older. We are grateful that children in Canada will soon be able to receive their first doses, and especially thankful for all our ACHIEVE mini research superheroes at the Alberta Children's Hospital who contributed to this data and science 📢🙏

05/19/2022

Happy 💯 Anniversary, ACH!

How it started ➡️ How it’s going

Today marks 100 years of Hope + Healing in our community!

On May 19, 1922, the Junior Red Cross Children’s Hospital opened in Calgary. Since then, there have been several different buildings and expansions, lots of new specialists, programs and equipment. Despite the many changes and advancements over the last 100 years, one thing has remained constant: love from our community.

As we celebrate this incredible milestone, we hope you feel proud, knowing your support has helped the Alberta Children’s Hospital become what it is today – THANK YOU. ❤️

We are so excited to see what the Next 100 years brings. Interested in more history about the hospital? Visit http://ow.ly/7wJA50Jc8bk.

02/09/2022

The Canadian National Vaccine Safety Network is looking for parents of children 5 years of age or older who have NOT had the COVID-19 vaccine to complete our short online survey.

To monitor the vaccine’s safety, we need a picture of the whole population’s health. This helps us better measure any change in illness that may happen after getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

To find out more visit:

The purpose of the study is to find out how often health events occur after a COVID-19 vaccine. To do this, we also need to monitor health events in people who did NOT get a COVID-19 vaccine. We need to measure the background illness of the population because it helps us better measure any increase....

02/01/2022

Have you ever wondered if vaccines are safe? Watch this video to follow the journey that every vaccine goes on before it is used in Canada.Transcript: https:...

01/27/2022

🗣️ CALLING ALL PARENTS! 🗣️

It can be hard to sort through the health information you see online. And when it comes to your kids’ health, it can be even harder.

We’re here to clear the air! Join us on Thursday, January 27th at our Kids and Vaccines Town Hall, part of National . 💉🌎

Bring your questions to our expert panel and help us move the needle (pun intended) and build confidence in the vaccines.

Have questions you want to see answered by the experts? Drop a comment or send us a DM!

Find out more:
https://www.scienceupfirst.com/kids-vaccines-day/

01/26/2022

Patiently waiting for our Alberta Childhood Cohort study participants to return for the 4th round of serology collection. One week left!

10/22/2021

After ~1,000 serology tests, lollipops, and air high-fives, we're happy to be finishing Round 3 of the Alberta Childhood Cohort study today! We're looking forward to seeing the results from this round and can't wait to welcome everyone back for Round 4 in the Spring. A big thanks goes out to our mini-scientists and their families, our research assistants and phlebotomists, and the funders of the study YourAlberta (Government of Alberta) and Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute

08/14/2021

Happy Saturday! We're here bright and early to see our 50+ mini-scientists (aka research participants) 👩‍🔬