2018 Women’s Health Research Institute Catalyst Grants

The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), in partnership with the BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre Foundation, is pleased to announce a Catalyst Grant competition for the advancement of knowledge in women’s health. A total of three awards will be awarded at $25,000 each. These Pilot Grants are an open competition with respect to funding […]

Presenting the BC Women’s Health Research Agenda

On May 9th, 2018 the Women’s Health Research Institute presented the BC Women’s Health Research Agenda at the Third Annual Women’s Health Research Symposium. The BC Women’s Health Research Agenda “[identifies] key challenges, drivers, and enablers to women’s health research and implementation efforts in BC; and, [presents] strategies for enabling, facilitating, and accelerating growth and excellence in […]

MSFHR 2018 Health Professional-Investigator Award Recipients announced!

Congratulations to Drs. Melanie Murray and Paul Yong, two of the twelve recipients of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Health Professional-Investigator Awards! The program “is designed to help decrease the gap between health research and its implementation.” Dr. Murray has been awarded for the project Individual disposition and mHealth: Personalized care to improve outcomes, […]

Mental Health Week: An Interview with Dr. Joelle LeMoult

May 7 – May 13th  2018 marks the Canadian Mental Health Association’s (CMHA) Mental Health Week.  In light of Mental Health Week, Dr. Joelle LeMoult spoke to WHRI about mental health, research, and stress. Read the interview below!   In CMHA’s campaign they mention that although we may not all live with mental health problems, […]

Pregnancy Reference Intervals for Safe Medicine (PRISM)

Researchers at UBC and BC Women’s Hospital are studying healthy pregnant women to develop a guide to help health care providers interpret lab test results in pregnancy.

Co-Principal Investigators:  Dr. Vilte Barakauskas and Dr. Benjamin Jung

National Immunization Awareness Week: Working toward an STI Vaccine

By Laurie Smith Sexually transmitted infections (STI) are a significant cause of morbidity, mortality, and health system burden globally, with over half a billion STIs occur annually. STI infections can cause fetal & neonatal death through perinatal transmission (syphilis), various types of cancer (HPV), infertility (gonorrhea & chlamydia), physical & psychosocial distress, and can increase […]

Yuebo Yang has been selected to receive the Endocrine Society’s 2018 Summer Research Fellowship Award

Congratulations to Yuebo Yang, a student working with Dr. Jerilynn Prior, who has been selected to receive the Endocrine Society’s 2018 Summer Research Fellowship Award. This summer Yuebo will be working with Dr. Prior and the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research.  His research project will use RCT data to analyze the changes in serum […]

Dr. Anna Lehman is the 2018 recipient of the WHRI Genomic Medicine Clinician Scientist Salary Award

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Lehman, recipient of the WHRI Genomic Medicine Clinician Scientist Salary Award!  The award provides partial salary support for three years to enable an early- to mid-career clinical geneticist to become an independent clinician scientist leading a genomic medicine research program at BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre. Dr. Lehman has worked […]

International Women’s Day 2018

International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world on March 8 every year. It is a day to recognize and celebrate the achievements of women, to raise awareness of important social issues relevant to women, and to make change. Over the past few years, the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) has celebrated International Women’s Day […]