Congratulations to the recipients of the MSFHR Health Professional-Investigator Awards

The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Health Professional-Investigator Program is “designed to develop BC’s research talent and help decrease the gap between health research and its implementation.”

Dr. Kwon received an award for her project, Costs and benefits of tumour testing to improve cancer prevention and survival, a pilot study which will look at the use and cost-effectiveness of tumor testing for BRCA mutations in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma.

Dr. Plewes received an award for her project, Evaluating the renoprotective effect of acetaminophen in children with severe falciparum malaria. This randomized controlled trial seeks to assess the role of acetaminophen as a kidney protective therapy in African children with severe malaria.

Read the MSFHR announcement.

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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