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Meet the Researcher

Researcher spotlight: Meet Dr. Sarah Munro
Dr. Munro is a WHRI researcher and implementation scientist doing work on access to contraception and informed, shared decision-making. She holds a joint post-doctoral position between the Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI).

Meet the researcher: Dr. Gillian Hanley
WHRI member Dr. Gillian Hanley is a health services and health economics researcher with OVCARE. Recently her work has involved evaluating a knowledge translation initiative which asked gynaecologists across British Columbia to consider changing their practice to include opportunistic salpingectomy to help prevent ovarian cancer. What is your role at OVCARE, and what led you to […]

Meet the students!
Meet Aya, Chadni, Nicole, and Ryan, four students working on WHRI-affiliated projects over the summer.

Meet the students!
This summer there are four students working on projects with Dr. Gina Ogilvie’s team! Sandy Zhang, Catherine Sanders, and Kara Plotnikoff are SFU Master of Public Health students completing their practicums over the summer, and Christine Lukac is an epidemiologist and UBC Medical student researching the impact of the school-based HPV immunization program.

Dr. Jennifer Love: Fighting the gender pay-gap at UBC
This year WHRI was excited to present Dr. Jennifer Love as a keynote speaker on the topic of Women in Academia. Dr. Jennifer Love was recently reappointed for the 2018-2020 term as Senior Advisor to the Provost on Women Faculty at the University of British Columbia, a role which she has filled since July 1, […]

Meet the researcher: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother
What is your role? I am an assistant professor in the UBC Department of Psychiatry, located in Victoria BC with the UBC Island Medical Program. What led you to a career in research? The year after high school I took a career interests test and my strongest (by far) score was for research psychologist. I […]