The Patient Partner Experience: Lessons from the #ItsNotInYourHead campaign

As part of the #ItsNotInYourHead awareness campaign wrap-up, Melissa Nelson, Communications Assistant, and Ciana Maher, Research Coordinator, sat down with patient partner Lana Barry to discuss why involving a patient partner in KT work is important, and to explore how this collaboration between researchers and patient partners can catalyze a social media campaign.

Mifepristone Implementation Research in Canada

This foundational research at the time of introduction for an innovative practice in Canada, will support advances for training programs and will inform health policy, system and service improvements to facilitate equitable access to medication abortion options for women throughout Canada.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Wendy Norman

Women’s Health Research Institute becomes UBC Faculty of Medicine Research Centre

The Faculty of Medicine, UBC, is very pleased to recognize the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) as a Faculty of Medicine Research Centre in recognition of its scientific contributions and its significance to the Faculty of Medicine’s mission and the public’s health. By coming within the Faculty’s organizational structure as the Women’s Health Research Centre, WHRI will now have a voice in strategic discussions about research at UBC.

#HometoVote: Journey to Repeal the 8th

Ciana Maher, Research Coordinator at WHRI, journeyed home last month to vote in Ireland’s historic referendum on abortion. Read

Dr. Joelle LeMoult receives a 2018 MSFHR Scholar Award

This month Dr. Joelle LeMoult was awarded a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Scholar Award for her project Predicting Depressive Symptoms During the Transition to High School.

The Third Annual Women’s Health Research Symposium

Check out this video-style recap of the Third Annual Women’s Health Research Symposium!

BC Women’s Hospital selected as Canadian site of an American research trial

The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) is excited to announce that BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre (BCWH) has been selected as one of four Canadian sites to participate in a large-scale NIH-funded study entitled “Pharmacokinetics and Safety of Commonly Used Drugs in Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants”. The study is being conducted by the […]

C&W Medical Staff Association Recognition Award recipients announced!

Congratulations to the recipients of the inaugural C&W Medical Staff Association (MSA) Recognition Awards! The awards are intended to give recognition to C&W MSA members who make an outstanding contribution to the delivery of healthcare, training, and research on a local, provincial, and global scale. WHRI is proud to announce that seven of its members […]

Dr. Joelle LeMoult is a MSFHR 2018 Scholar Award recipient!

Congratulations to Dr. Joelle LeMoult, a recipient of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research 2018 Scholar Award for her project Predicting Depressive Symptoms During the Transition to High School. Dr. LeMoult’s research will focus on the transition period adolescents face in their first year of high school – a period during which 11.5% of adolescents experience […]