Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, youth, and families in Canada

Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

COVID-19 required a full-scale redeployment of public health resources away from routine public health activities. One particularly dangerous side-effect of this deployment is the backlog associated with missed routine childhood and school-based immunizations. This project aims to explicate the effect of COVID-19 on these vital programs deeply in three case study provinces, to understand innovations in catch-up efforts across Canada, and to project what the impact might be in terms of disease burden into the future with inadequate catch-up efforts.