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Dr Lori Brotto named APOG Researcher of the Year!

WHRI Executive Director Dr Lori Brotto is the 2017 recipient of the Association of Academic Professionals in Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Canada (APOG) Excellence in Research Award, which recognizes “outstanding scientific leadership, research mentoring, creative effort and major research accomplishments of a Canadian researcher active in APOG”. Congrats, Lori, on this well-deserved achievement!

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Women’s Health Research Symposium Report

On October 25 2017, the Women’s Health Research Institute, together with the Vice President Research Office at Simon Fraser University, hosted a half-day women’s health research symposium at the beautiful SFU Diamond Alumni Centre. The event was entitled, “Examining diversity across disciplines, decades, and distances”. The event consisted of a trainee breakfast, a keynote presentation […]

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Support for Canadian Research in new report from FINA

The House of Common’s Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) released its report, Driving Inclusive Growth: Spurring Productivity and Competitiveness in Canada that contains recommendations for consideration by the Minister of Finance for the 2018 federal budget. A number of recommendations stemming from the Naylor Report and Canada’s Fundamental Science Review have been proposed, including: Recommendation 2: […]

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Defining outcomes and opportunities for reproductive health and pregnancy among adolescents in post-conflict Northern Uganda

  The current generation of adolescents 10-24 years old is the largest in human history. Adolescence is a crucial time in terms of health, education and skills which will determine social and economic development over the life course. While focused global action on maternal and child health based on the Millennium Development Goals has resulted […]

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#MyRightToHealth

World AIDS Day 2017 is focusing on the theme “My health, my right” in support of universal right to health, which includes the prevention and treatment of ill health, ability to make health-related decisions, access to healthcare without discrimination or violence, and the right to education.  In the lead-up to World AIDS Day on December […]

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Gender Equity in CIHR Research Funding: Implications for Women’s Health Research

By Liisa Galea, Ph.D. On August 15, 2017, CIHR released a report outlining gender differences in the amount of approved CIHR funding and in March, 2017 on gender inequities in success rates with Project, Open Operating and Foundation grants1. Overall, within-sex success rates across all CIHR grant programs did not show a strong bias, with […]

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Kangaroo Mother Care at BC Women’s Hospital NICU

On November 15th BC Women’s Hospital, along with Perinatal Services BC, announced that their innovative Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) program will receive financial support from the Ministry of Children and Family Development to help implement KMC in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) across the province. KMC is a skin-to-skin attachment program, wherein the mother (or partner) holds their […]

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Women’s Health Research Symposium

On October 25 2017, the Women’s Health Research Institute, together with the Vice President Research Office at Simon Fraser University, hosted a half-day women’s health research symposium at the beautiful SFU Diamond Alumni Centre. The event was entitled, “Examining diversity across disciplines, decades, and distances”. Associate Professor in the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr. […]

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Exciting Job Opportunity: Director of Surveillance at Perinatal Services BC

Perinatal Services BC (PSBC) is hiring! This is a very exciting opportunity to do surveillance and quality improvement work to improve maternal and newborn health. BC’s Perinatal Data Registry collects information across the continuum of care (antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum) on every mother-baby pair and captures all births that take place in BC. The role includes […]

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