2024 C&W Digital Health Spring Social Event Highlights

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On May 2nd, 2024, the joint Digital Health Research Program at BCCHR and WHRI co-hosted a Digital Health Spring Social Event at UBC Robson Square with entrepreneurship@UBC (e@UBC). This event brought together over 60 participants from all different institutions, including C&W, UBC, BCIT, PHSA, industry partners, and more! With a buzzing atmosphere and a room filled with industry leaders, researchers, clinicians, and digital health leaders, our social event was a true celebration of digital innovation and collaboration aimed at improving health services for women, children, and families in BC!

Together, we witnessed insightful presentations from 6 amazing speakers:

1. Jonathon Jafari – Introduction to entrepreneurship@UBC
2. Dr. Lori Brotto – Learn about eSense: a usable, feasible, and effective digital health tool for women’s sexual health
3. Dr. Patricia Janssen – SmartParent -Teaching by texting to promote healthy behaviours in pregnancy
4. Shelin Adam – DECIDE – Decision-aid & E-Counselling to Support Patients’ Diagnostic Genomic Testing Choices
5. Dr. Matthew Wien – Smart Discharges: Using a Data-driven Prediction Model to Identify Vulnerable Children
6. Dr. Alexandra T. Greenhill – Digitally reimagining the hub-and-spoke model to deliver patient-centered coordinated care

We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who joined us and helped make the event a resounding success! Stay tuned for more opportunities to collaborate as we continue our journey to transform our learning health system through technology and innovation!r

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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