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.

Congratulations to the recipients of the CIHR Spring 2018 Project Grants!

Congratulations to WHRI members Drs. Ruth Grunau, Karin Humphries, Crystal Karakochuk, and Wendy Norman, recipients of the CIHR Spring 2018 Project Grants!

Call for Abstracts: World Sexual Health Day

We would like to invite you to participate in WHRI’s annual event to celebrate World Sexual Health Day taking place on Wednesday September 5th, 2018 from 12 – 1:30 in D308.

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!