Dr. Mark Ferro, director of the ARCH Lab, is proud to be one of seven recipients of funding from Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) at University of Waterloo, receiving nearly $1.3M of the overall $4.3M awarded across the institution.

CIHR is Canada’s leading federal funding agency, collaborating with partners and researchers to support health-care discoveries and innovations. The funding will support our ongoing study, Multimorbidity in children and youth across the life-course (MY LIFE): A long-term follow-up. 

Early results of the study showed that 30 to 40 per cent of children living with a long-term physical illness, like asthma or epilepsy, also had a mental illness, like depression or anxiety, known as multimorbidity or the presence of two or more long-term health conditions.

Click here to learn more about the funding received and preliminary results of the MY LIFE Study.