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Sabina’s Stats Corner: How to Create an Effective Survey
Special Notes: Listen to our L&L lectures online: WHRI Lunch & Learn Series – Women’s Health Research Institute Visit our Stats corner in the e-blast for previously published tips on data management and analysis: E-Blast Archive – Women’s Health Research Institute (whri.org) You don’t have to be an expert to create a survey, but by following a […]
WHRI Members Present at The House of Commons
In 2023 the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health initiated a specific study on Women’s Health. We are thrilled that several WHRI members have shared women’s health research findings, as part of this study. These presentations are true knowledge mobilization in action. The table below contains a list of the presentation records by WHRI […]
A Recap of the Ninth Annual WHRI Symposium
Celebrating the Evidence and Opportunities for Mid-Life and Menopause On Friday March 8th, 2024, International Women’s Day, the women’s health research community in BC came together for the Ninth Annual WHRI Symposium. With over 180 in person and 129 online, this marked one of the most well-attended symposia to date with 309 attendees. WHRI Executive […]
Sabina’s Stats Corner: Mastering the Normal Distribution and Central Limit Theorem
Special Notes: Listen to our L&L lectures online: WHRI Lunch & Learn Series – Women’s Health Research Institute Visit our Stats corner in the e-blast for previously published tips on data management and analysis: E-Blast Archive – Women’s Health Research Institute (whri.org) Normal Distribution Summary During our “Sabina’s Stats Series” lecture on September 28th, 2023, we discussed […]
Welcoming the New PRIME Centre Lead
A Welcome to Dr. Yasser Sabr and Gratitude to the Previous PRIME Leads Effective December 2023, Dr. Yasser Sabr has been welcomed as the new PRIME Lead. Dr. Sabr completed his Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) fellowship at BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre (BCWH) in 2012. He then returned to Saudi Arabia to build the […]
Sabina’s Stats Corner: Basic Tests for Comparison of Categorical Variables
Special Notes: Listen to our L&L lectures online: WHRI Lunch & Learn Series – Women’s Health Research Institute Visit our Stats corner in the e-blast for previously published tips on data management and analysis: E-Blast Archive – Women’s Health Research Institute (whri.org) Tip 1 Choose the test wisely, as different types of data and the number of […]
CIHR Project Grants Fall 2023 Results
Congratulations to the recipients for the Canadian Institute of Health Research 2023 Fall Project grants! We are especially proud of our WHRI members receiving these awards. Project Grants Non-inferiority of (6S)-5-MTHF as compared to synthetic folic acid in increasing maternal folate status during pregnancy: A randomized controlled trial Link to Abstract: Here Principal Investigator: Karakochuk, […]
Celebrating One-Year of Cross-Campus Digital Health Research Collaboration
At the WHRI and BCCHR we recognize that Digital Health Research and Innovation is a strategic priority for our institutes as we work towards our goals of research excellence to improve children’s’ and women’s health across BC. This field of study is broad and involves application of computing platforms, connectivity, software and sensors for health […]
Sabina’s Stats Corner: Paired? Or not paired?
On behalf of Sabina Dobrer Recently I asked about options for comparing categorical and continues variables. What to use? Paired? Not paired? So I decided to put this information together to provide some guidelines for the researchers and their teams. In this story I will describe appropriate tests to compare continuous variables. Paired or Not? […]