Celebrating 25 Years of Partnership - Video transcript
My name is Kevin Milligan. I'm at the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC, where I'm professor and director. It was 2001. I was actually one of the very first users with an approved project at the UBC RDC.
Over the years, I think I've published more than 20 papers that have drawn on RDC data. And, you know, I'm very thankful because without that, I literally would not have a career.
So on this 25th anniversary of the RDC network, I just want to thank those who had the vision and foresight to start the network, those who put in the energy and effort to grow the network. And today, those who position the network for what comes next.
My name is Doctor Scott Patten I'm a psychiatrist by profession and an epidemiologist at the University of Calgary with the Department of Community Health Sciences.
Back in the 1990s, which is a time when we had no information about the prevalence of mental disorders at all in Canada, even common and most burdensome of the disorders, we had to rely on estimates from other countries, but nothing was available nationally. With the first content focused CCHS survey in 2002.
Canada has good data on distribution of mental disorders in the population, and this is made accessible through the network of regional data centers, which has really facilitated the use of this data not only by Statistics Canada researchers, but also by university based researchers across the country.
Hello everyone, this is Iqbal Ahmed Chaudhuri. I am pursuing my PhD in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University.
The availability of high quality and nationally representative data has allowed me to conduct the rigorous quantitative analysis on pressing social issues, particularly in immigration, life and work stress, social support, and mental health.
Utilizing the Canadian Research Data Center network resources has enhanced the depth and credibility of my research, enabling me to contribute to scholarly discussions on the healthy immigrant effect and regional disparities in mental health outcomes.
I'm Valarie Tarasuk I'm a professor emerita in nutritional sciences from the University of Toronto, and I'm also the lead investigator of a research program called Proof that investigates household food insecurity in Canada.
We have worked in the research center at the University of Toronto for almost 20 years. In 2004, Canada made the commitment to monitor food insecurity on the Canadian Community Health Survey using a standardized, well validated scale of severity.
We and others have developed a huge body of knowledge about food insecurity in this country, with the measurement and monitoring of food insecurity in Canada, coupled with researchers access to these data through the Research Data Center system. We've been able to develop a huge body of knowledge.
Not only do we know who's food insecure, we've been able to track changes in prevalence over time.
I'm Nancy Ross, I'm the vice principal of research at Queen's University. I'm also a professor of public health sciences.
It's been a tremendous opportunity to be able to use those data with our graduate students in universities, where our research group in particular, was able to look at the ways in which Canadian health was patterned by social position and patterned by neighborhoods in which they lived.
When I think about its impact, I think about the graduate students who have been trained with these data, who learned how to use complicated data, and the impact really is ultimately on the career development of many, many students.
Over time, access the rich data sources that they were able to ask really strong questions that held up to publication and really good journals.
Hello, my name is Maria Gupta. I'm a professor and director of the socio cultural studies and health program at the University of New Brunswick.
I've been using the Statistics Canada Microdata files available through the Research Data Centers network for about the last ten years, and they have been indispensable to not just advancing my own research interests and projects, but also helping to train graduate students, the next generation of researchers, and using real world data to help solve important societal issues.
I am grateful to the Canadian Research Data Centers Network for facilitating access to these data and not just access, but to their incredibly helpful staff, who also help us work through some of the technical challenges and working with person level, de-identified data within the secure computing networks.
Thanks to the CRDCN and and congratulations on your 25th anniversary.