Through MICYRN, a pan-Canadian collaboration linking databases for 13 existing pregnancy/birth cohort studies has been established. Three additional birth cohort studies - the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) asthma and allergy birth cohort, the Integrated Research Network in Perinatology of Quebec and Eastern Ontario and the Interdisciplinary Team in Childhood Obesity - have recently been funded as the first components of the MICYRN birth cohort coalition. Together, these 16 existing independent cohort studies form the MICYRN birth cohort coalition that collectively represents over 79,000 mother-baby pairs, 47,000 of which were or are being studied prospectively and longitudinally up.
