He is also the National Research Lead of the Forum on Early Child Development Monitoring, and a member of the Canadian Council on the Social Determinants of Health. Dr. Guhn has a PhD in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (UBC), and degrees in Psychology and Music. His interdisciplinary, applied research focuses on social, cultural, demographic, and socio-economic determinants of children's and adolescents’ developmental health, wellbeing, and educational trajectories, drawing from HELP’s EDI and MDI research projects. Further research interests include children's social and emotional development, bio-ecological theories of human development, validation of population-level assessment, measurement of change over time, educational reform, as well as school and community based knowledge-to-action research.