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, which will explore the efficacy of text message-based antiretroviral adherence support in 300 HIV patients.

Dr. Yong’s project, Sexual pain in endometriosis: Role of somatic mutations, looks at the role of gene mutations in endometriosis sexual pain. This research could help to influence the incorporation of gene mutation testing into clinical care for endometriosis to promote more individualized care.

Read the full list of recipients here.

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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