2020 Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women’s Health Recipients

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The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) is very pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2020 Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women’s Health. This competition was funded thanks to the dedicated support of the BC Women’s Health Foundation.

In 2020, the WHRI offered the Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women’s Health to create a funding opportunity specific to our outstanding trainee community. This award is intended to provide salary support to WHRI-affiliated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are engaged in women’s and/or newborn health research under the mentorship of a WHRI member.

This year, the WHRI awarded one postdoctoral fellowship award and one graduate award, valued at $12,500 each, for a one-year period.

FELLOWSHIP-LEVEL AWARD RECIPIENT

Recipient:
Dr. Katerina Rnic, Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Department of Psychology

Project Supervisor:
Dr. Joelle LeMoult, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Psychology

Project Title:
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Cognitive Control Intervention for Women with Major Depressive Disorder

Project Aims: To conduct an randomized controlled trial to test a novel cognitive control intervention in a sample of women with Major Depressive Disorder and to examine treatment efficacy and mediators of treatment outcomes.

Katerina Rnic
GRADUATE-LEVEL AWARD RECIPIENT

Recipient:
Ismalia De Sousa, Graduate Student, UBC School of Nursing

Project Supervisor:
Dr. Thalia Field, Associate Professor, UBC Department of Medicine

Dr. Sally Thorne, Professor, School of Nursing University of British Columbia

Dr. Sandra Lauck, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing University of British Columbia; St Paul’s Hospital and Heart & Stroke Foundation Professorship in Cardiovascular Nursing at UBC

Project Title:
Towards Equitable Care: Learning from Young Women’s Experiences

Project Aims: To explore the lived experiences of young women stroke survivors in BC and to provide practice, research and policy recommendations to support equitable and effective care in this group.

Ismalia De Sousa

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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