CIHR Spring 2018 Project Grant Competition recipients

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Dr. Karin Humphries is addressing gender inequities in women’s heart health with her project hs cTn – Optimizing the Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction/Injury in Women (CODE-MI). Read more.

Dr. Crystal Karakochuk’s research is looking at women living in Cambodia receiving daily iron supplementation to help inform future global policy addressing populations with high rates of anemia. Read more.

Stress, Brain and Neurodevelopment in Children Born Preterm, a project co-led by Dr. Ruth Grunau, will look at the link between pain-related stress that babies born very preterm (<32 weeks gestation) are subject to throughout their stay in the neonatal intensive care unit, and its impact on the babies’ brain development. Read more.

Although Nurse Practitioners are now permitted to perform medical abortions, little is known about how to support them or what barriers may exist to implementing high quality care. Dr. Wendy Norman seeks to address this gap with The Canadian Nurse Practitioner medical abortion study. Read more.

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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