OUR VISION
To enhance the health of youth by working within school settings to create healthy physical and social environments.
OUR MANDATE
- Conduct high-quality research that addresses the socio-ecological aspects of school health
- Build meaningful partnerships at local, regional, provincial, national, and international levels
- Build capacity in, and promote, school health research
- Develop CSHR as a Centre of Excellence for school health research
MAIN ACTIVITIES
- Develop and maintain a school health network in Atlantic Canada
- Apply a socio-ecological perspective to school health
- Seek sustained funding for a continued program of school health research
- Recruit a multidisciplinary team for school health research
- Train school health researchers
- Use high quality research methodologies
- Develop school health resources for researchers and partners