Canadian Digestive Health Foundation Explained

The Canadian Digestive Health Foundation (French: Fondation Canadienne de la Santé Digestive) or CDHF, is a registered Canadian charity. The organization was founded in 1993 as the Canadian Digestive Disease Foundation and renamed the Canadian Digestive Health Foundation in 2001.^[1] The objectives of the Foundation are to educate the general public about digestive disease and nutrition, and to advance the science of gastroenterology by funding medical research.^[2] In February 2001, it was officially endorsed as the Foundation for the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology.^[3] Since then it has raised and invested more than $1 million to fund Canadian researchers in the field of digestive health.^[4]

External links

• Canadian Digestive Health Foundation
  • "Research"
• Canadian Association of Gastroenterology

Notes and References

1. Web site: Birth of the Canadian Digestive Health Foundation, Pulsus Group Inc . Pulsus.com . 2009-12-18 . 2011-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927152248/http://www.pulsus.com/journals/abstract.jsp?jnlKy=2&atlKy=321&isuKy=240&isArt=t&HCtype=Consumer . 2011-09-27 . dead .
2. Web site: Canadian Digestive Health Foundation - About Us . Cdhf.ca . 2011-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110623150202/http://www.cdhf.ca/about-us/ . 2011-06-23 . dead .
3. Web site: CAG's Foundation . Cag-acg.org . 2011-06-02 .
4. Web site: Canadian Digestive Health Foundation - Research . 2011-05-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110912005226/http://www.cdhf.ca/news-and-research/research.shtml . 2011-09-12 .