Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children Symposium
Connecting Health and Education to Improve Child Wellbeing
October 9, 2025 - Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning
Explore how new data, tools, and interventions can improve both child health and educational outcomes during interactive sessions focused on advancing child wellbeing through equity-focused research.
This one-day symposium will bring together healthcare professionals, multi-disciplinary researchers, and trainees across the health and education sectors to explore the intersection between child health and education.
Discover how to apply innovative research and explore promising opportunities during a variety of plenary and breakout sessions, poster presentations, and moderated discussions. Uncover how schools can be community hubs to improve health, how innovative methods like AI can assist in data collection on child development, and unique ways that researchers and policy makers can work together to address current and future challenges impacting child and youth wellbeing.
Our 2025 Symposium provides an opportunity to connect, learn, and contribute with colleagues dedicated to improving our children’s future.
Who Should Attend? Health care professionals, educators, researchers, trainees, and policymakers.
Children spend more time in schools than any other setting. Anyone passionate about child wellbeing needs to think deeply about how we can harness schools to advance their health.
Dr. Eyal Cohen
(Symposium Co-Chair)
We are excited to bring together international and local leaders to showcase examples of innovative and impactful research partnerships between health and education.
Dr. Astrid Guttmann
(Symposium Co-Chair)
Conference Highlights
- Keynote address by Dr. Jean M. Twenge (psychologist and author of iGen)
- Opening plenary by Nancy Naylor (Former Deputy Minister of Education and Former Associate Deputy Minister of Health)
- Research posters to explore and opportunities to network with colleagues
- 2 moderated panel discussions with international experts focused on critical challenges and opportunities in child health and education
- 7 breakout sessions exploring youth and family engagement in school-based research, the design of effective health interventions in schools, and more
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the opportunities for the health and education systems to partner to improve child health, development, academic achievement, and wellbeing.
- Identify innovative school-based interventions to improve child health and educational outcomes.
- Explain sources of, and methods for, data collection and analysis in research across education and health sectors.
- Establish collaborations with researchers, healthcare professionals, and policy makers across health and education sectors.