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Dr. Jan Christilaw appointed as Member to the Order of Canada
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Jan Christilaw has been appointed to the Order of Canada, which was announced by the Right Honourable David Johnston over the holidays. Dr. Christilaw has spent her career working to improve health outcomes and building capacity of health care providers here in BC, throughout Canada and the […]
CIHR’s new Gender Equity Framework
CIHR has created a new Gender Equity Framework which aims to create an equitable funding system by identifying and eliminating biases towards any individual or group that would hinder access to CIHR funds. 04-1-cihrs-gender-equity-framework_uds
Congratulations to Liz McClymont, Bernard Duval Bursary recipient, Dr. Money and the HPV in HIV Team!
We would like to congratulate Liz McClymont, a master’s student in Reproductive Sciences working with supervisor Dr. Deborah Money, for receiving the Bernard Duval Bursary for first place poster at the 2016 Canadian Immunization Conference, in Ottawa, Ontario. Liz presented data from the “HPV in HIV Study”, reporting on cervical dysplasia and attributable HPV types in […]
WHRI Investigator, Dr. Deborah Money, publishes on the safety of and immune response to the HPV vaccine in HIV positive women
WHRI Investigator Dr. Deborah Money, leading the HPV in HIV Team, published in “Vaccine”! The team reports on their national study of the HPV vaccine in women living with HIV. The HPV vaccine was well-tolerated with promising indicators of effectiveness in preventing HPV infection and associated cervical cancer in women living with HIV. http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0264410X16306739
WHRI researcher, Sarah Munro, spoke to CBC news about her latest findings
WHRI researcher, Sarah Munro, spoke to CBC news about her latest findings showing that more women in B.C. are choosing to have repeat Caesarean sections than women in other parts of Canada. Follow the link to the full article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-c-section-1.3886593
WHRI researcher, Sarah Munro, spoke to CBC news about her latest findings showing that more women in B.C. are choosing to have repeat Caesarean sections than women in other parts of Canada.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-c-section-1.3886593
Spotlighting the voices of community health care workers in Sierra Leone
Angeli Rawat, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow working with Dr. Gina Ogilvie, has created a photo story based on her work in Sierra Leone. This video was made in response to a call for multimedia submissions that bring the voice of community health workers and their experiences during the Ebola response.
WHRI investigator Dr. Deborah Money and team report on their study of the vaginal microbiome in women following PPROM
WHRI investigator Dr. Deborah Money and team report on their study of the vaginal microbiome in women following preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). Read the full article published today in PLOS ONE: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166794
Message to members from Dr. Lori Brotto: A history of the WHRI
Message to members from Dr. Lori Brotto: A history of the WHRI The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) was proudly established by BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre in March 2005 after the Ministry of Health announced it would provide $2M in funding to create an Institute designed specifically to address the growing need for […]