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Congratulations to the WHRI Spring 2026 Trainee Travel Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the winners of the Spring 2026 trainee travel grant competition.
Dr. Cheryl Wellington Awarded Brain Canada Platform Support Grant
Congratulations to WHRI member Dr. Cheryl Wellington, who recently received a Brain Canada 2025 Platform Support Grant to facilitate her leadership of the UBC Core Facility for Neurology Biomarker Innovation (CFNBI).
Participate in Evaluating AI-Assisted Document Translation for Research Equity
The WHRI is collaborating with the Clinical Research Support Unit at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute to evaluate a process that combines AI translation with structured human review for research documents – and you can help.
WHRI Offers Trauma and Resiliency Informed Practices (TRiP) Training for Researchers and Evaluators
This May, the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) formalized our commitment to Trauma and Resiliency-informed Practices (TRiP) with a new offering: TRiP Training for Researchers and Evaluators. This work was facilitated by long-time WHRI partner BC Pomeroy and WHRI Qualitative Research Analyst Julia Santana Parrilla.
WHRI hosts Dr. Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott for Research Spotlight Talk
The 11th annual Women’s Health Research Symposium highlighted two decades of progress in women’s health research and served as an excellent kickoff to Women’s Health Research Month.
Celebrating Pride Season and Going Beyond the Binary
WHRI’s Qualitative Research Analyst, Julia Santana Parrilla, and Heather McCain—member of the Beyond the Binary Community Task Force and Founder & Executive Director of Live Educate Transform Society (LET’S)—were recently featured on Leader Talks, where they reflect on their work with BTB and the importance of centering diverse gender experiences in research.
WHRI Represented in CIHR Partnering for Impact – Catalyst Grants
Congratulations to the recipients of the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) 2026 Partnering for Impact catalyst grants, and Health System Impact Fellows!
WHRI Researchers Quantify Benefit of Universal Contraceptive Coverage
Dr. Elizabeth Nethery and Dr. Laura Schummers published a paper in JAMA Health Forum looking at the economic benefit of BC’s Universal Contraceptive Coverage plan.
Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Hanley, WHRI’s New Executive Director
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Gillian Hanley to the position of Executive Director, WHRI (PHSA), and Director, WHRI (UBC Faculty of Medicine).