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.