Sleep Across the Lifespan Team 

For the past decade, Dr. Penny Corkum, her colleagues and trainees, have developed and evaluated a range of digital interventions (in both English and French) to support sleep health and treat insomnia in infants to young adults. 

The objectives of the research program will be achieved through the work of a diverse team of researchers, clinicians, knowledge users, trainees, Indigenous Peoples, and people with lived experience of insomnia, in collaboration with the Consortium.

• Increase sleep health knowledge and healthy sleep practices of all people living in Canada through a national healthy sleep campaign.

• Close the treatment gap for insomnia across the lifespan.

• Close the evidence-to-practice gap so evidence-based interventions are being recommended and delivered through the creation of an eLearning PD program for health care providers.

• Address the equity gap so that all people in Canada can have access to sleep health information, resources, and interventions that they find acceptable.

• Increase the cultural appropriateness of insomnia interventions for Indigenous Peoples.

• Mobilize the products created by this research through an online portal.

• Ensure sustainability of all products created through this research program.

• Build a bright future for sleep research in Canada through collaboration with the Consortium.

The work will be lifespan focused and will be conducted through three developmentally based research hubs:

Research Hub 1: Infants & Young Children – Lead: E. Keys

Research Hub 2: Children, Adolescents, & Young Adults – Leads: P. Corkum & G. Rigney

Research Hub 3: Adults & Older Adults – Lead: S. Garland