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Celebrate World Sexual Health Day 2023 with the WHRI!
World Sexual Health Day (WSHD) is an annual awareness day managed by the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS). As a global advocacy organization, WAS is dedicated to promoting best practices in sexual health. Taking place on September 6th, WSHD aims to dismantle social and cultural taboos surrounding sexuality while advocating for positive sexual health […]
Special BC Women’s Hospital Research Rounds with visiting Professor Dr. Marie Klingberg-Allvin from Sweden
Save the Date: Thursday June 22nd 12 – 1 PM The Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) and Professor Wendy Norman are delighted to welcome visiting Professor Dr. Marie Klingberg-Allvin from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Professor Klingberg-Allvin will present: “Expanding Midwives’ Role in Comprehensive Abortion Care” on Thursday June 22, noon to 1 pm (Pacific Time) […]
Learn, Engage, and Reflect this National Indigenous History Month
June is National Indigenous History Month June is National Indigenous History Month (NIHM), with National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21st. This month is dedicated to learning about the experiences, cultures, and traditions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Each week has a dedicated theme: June 1 to 6: Women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people […]
Integrating Research into Practice with Dr. Justyne Morrow
This month, we were able to interview family physician Dr. Justyne Morrow who was awarded the 2021 Sue Harris Family Practice Research Grant for the research study, “Barriers to Accessing Cervical Cancer Screening in the Thompson-Nicola Region.” Dr. Morrow graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) Medical School in 2016 and pursued her residency […]
Announcing the 2023 Perinatal Research Imaging and Evaluation (PRIME) Centre Research Award Recipients
The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) in partnership with the BC Women’s Health Foundation is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the first Perinatal Reseach Imaging and Evaluation (PRIME) Centre Research Award. The PRIME Centre, located in the Skidmore Goodman Research Centre for Women’s Health at BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre, is a state-of-the-art […]
Government of Canada announces $4.2 million in funding to strengthen abortion access
The study, in partnership with the BC Centre for Disease Control, shows that BC’s HPV immunization program has cut pre-cancer rates in half for women.
Welcome to WHRI Assistant Director, Dr. Paul Yong
In February this year, we promoted the opportunity to lead with us through a new WHRI Assistant Director position. The WHRI is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Yong has accepted this role, effective April 15, 2023. Working within the WHRI Executive, this new role will lead the development, implementation, evaluation and reporting of the […]
Reflections Upon Retirement with Dr. Neora Pick
We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Neora Pick who was the BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre (BCW) Oak Tree Clinic (OTC) study site Principal Investigator (PI) for the Canadian Co-infection Cohort, which recently received additional renewed funding. Dr. Pick is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, within the Department of […]
Free Contraception in BC: How BC Women’s Led the Charge
The study, in partnership with the BC Centre for Disease Control, shows that BC’s HPV immunization program has cut pre-cancer rates in half for women.