Children and Babies
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Marie-France Delisle
Clinical Associate Professor
- Prenatal procedures
- intrauterine transfusion
- prenatal diagnosis
- fetal anomalies
- multiple pregnancies
- prematurity
- clinical trials
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Rajavel Elango, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Protein nutrition
- maternal-fetal nutrition
- childhood malnutrition
- amino acid metabolism
- human nutrition
- healthy eating
- healthy diet
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Francine Tessier, MD, FRCSC
Clinical Associate Professor
- Maternal-fetal medicine
- fetal echocardiography
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Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD
Public Health Researcher and Educator
- public health
- social equity
- women's health
- global politics
- social determinants of health
- anti-racism
- anti-imperialism
- integrative health
- holistic health practices
- yoga
- meditation
- indigenous systems of health
- health policy
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Dr. Soren Gantt, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
- Cytomegalovirus
- Epstein-Barr virus
- herpes simplex virus
- congenital infection
- newborn infection
- Burkitt's lymphoma
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Darko Odic, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Cognitive development
- language acquisition
- mathematics
- perception of time and space
- psychophysics
- visual cognition
- preschoolers
- confidence
- statistics
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Susan Birch, PhD Yale
Associate Professor
- Social perspective taking
- social learning
- social cognition
- imitation
- nonverbal behavior
- confidence
- communication
- decision-making
- impression formation
- child development
- the study of children and adults' social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples' mental states--their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person's perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as 'the curse of knowledge bias' (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one's current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)