Q1K: Unravelling the Mystery of Autism (CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation)
An exceptional $10-million donation from the Marcelle and Jean Coutu Foundation is driving a collaborative multidisciplinary undertaking that is set to have an unprecedented impact on autism research. The Quebec 1,000 (Q1K) project is being spearheaded by some of the top scientific leaders in the autism field at five key institutions in Quebec. It will help accelerate the pace of discovery and integrate research outcomes into healthcare practices for autism.
Opinion: Autism ‘policy failure’ has stark consequences for families (The Gazette)
Studying public policy is my job. In this line of work, we tend to define “policy failure” as policies that prove to be “bad” investments of public money — high cost with poor outcomes — or those that “fail” to solve the problems they were meant to address, sometimes even making things worse.