Jill Houbé

MD, MPhil, FAAP, FRCPSC

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Attending Physician, Complex Developmental and Behavioural Conditions Clinic, Provincial Autism Resource Centre, Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit, Sunny Hill Health Centre at BC Children's Hospital
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician, Sunny Hill Health Centre at BC Children's Hospital and Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia

Dr. Jill Houbé, MD, MPhil, FAAP, FRCPSC, is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and Designated Founder of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada subspecialty in Developmental Pediatrics. She is an investigator at the Sunny Hill Research Centre at BC Children's Hospital, with clinical appointments in the Complex Developmental and Behavioural Conditions Clinic, the Provincial Autism Resource Centre, and the Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit.

With formal training in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Dr. Houbé's research examines how upstream system-level factors influence early childhood developmental outcomes. Her work spans both original research and knowledge mobilization, bridging developmental pediatrics with policy analysis. In British Columbia, her knowledge mobilization work has included co-organizing two international Healthy Child BC Forums and co-founding the BC Healthy Child Development Alliance. Her current policy scholarship examines legislative and governance approaches to healthy child development.

Academic Affiliations

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Developmental Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Brain, Behaviour & Development
  • Research Group(s): Implementing Knowledge for Equity and System Change

Contact Information

Assistant

Mary Jane Hornaas

mhornaas@cw.bc.ca

Location

4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6H 3N1

Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions

Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime

Peter W. Greenwood and Lynn A. Karoly and Susan S. Everingham and Jill Houb and M. Rebecca Kilburn and C. Peter Rydell and Matthew Sanders and James Chiesa

DOI: 10.4324/9780429501265-5

03 / 2018

Period prevalence of epilepsy in children in BC: a population-based study.

Schiariti V and Farrell K and Houb JS and Lisonkova S

PubMed: 19294886

01 / 2009

Severe retinopathy of prematurity and visual outcomes in British Columbia: a 10-year analysis.

Schiariti V and Matsuba C and Houb JS and Synnes AR

DOI: 10.1038/jp.2008.34 PubMed: 18368058

08 / 2008

Perinatal characteristics and parents' perspective of health status of NICU graduates born at term.

Schiariti V and Klassen AF and Houb JS and Synnes A and Lisonkova S and Lee SK

DOI: 10.1038/jp.2008.9 PubMed: 18288117

05 / 2008

Healthy child development: Legislative and policy approaches in Westminster democracies

The Canadian Bar Review

Michelle Jenkins and Jill Houb and Neale Smith and Craig Mitton

04 / 2008

Caregiver-reported health outcomes of preschool children born at 28 to 32 weeks' gestation.

Schiariti V and Houb JS and Lisonkova S and Klassen AF and Lee SK

DOI: 10.1097/01.dbp.0000257516.52459.33 PubMed: 17353725

02 / 2007

Chorioamnionitis with a fetal inflammatory response is associated with higher neonatal mortality, morbidity, and resource use than chorioamnionitis displaying a maternal inflammatory response only.

Lau J and Magee F and Qiu Z and Houb J and Von Dadelszen P and Lee SK

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.01.017 PubMed: 16150264

09 / 2005

Abstracts / rsums.

PubMed: 20098489

05 / 2004

A search for guidance: examining prenatal substance exposure protocols.

Zellman GL and Fair C and Houb J and Wong M

DOI: 10.1023/a:1019734314414 PubMed: 12236668

09 / 2002

Physician response to prenatal substance exposure.

Zellman GL and Bell RM and Archie C and DuPlessis H and Hoube J and Miu A

DOI: 10.1023/a:1021810129171 PubMed: 10728287

03 / 1999

Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions

RAND

Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan M. Sohler Everingham, Jill Houb, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, James Chiesa (1998). Investing in our children: What we know and don't know about the costs and benefits of early childhood interventions. Rand Corporation.

Do Child Rights Laws Work? Child Well-Being Trajectories in Nordic and Westminster Systems, 2009"2020

Canadian Paediatric Society Annual Conference (CPS 2026)

Jill Houb

Person-Centered Analyses of Early Childhood Screening Data: A Scoping Review

Canadian Paediatric Society Annual Conference (CPS 2026)

Jill Houb

Relationships between governance structures, policy frameworks, and child health and developmental outcomes at the population level

Comparative policy analysis across jurisdictions and welfare state regimes, with emphasis on early childhood systems.

Configurational and set-theoretic methods (including fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis) for examining complex causation in health policy research

Person-centered analytic approaches to population-level developmental data

Knowledge translation and implementation science, particularly system-level interventions to reduce inequities in early childhood

Integration of clinical expertise in developmental pediatrics with policy analysis to inform evidence-based system design and service delivery

Honours & Awards

Clinician Scientist Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – 1995

National Research Scientist Award, Agency for Health Care Policy Research – 1997

Centre Investigatorship and Establishment Awards, BC Research Institute for Children’s & Women’s Health – 2001

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