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International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health

By Liisa Galea On December 12, 2017, the 1st International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health was held in picturesque Lausanne, Switzerland. It was organized by the Women’s Brain Project in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Women’s Brain Health and The Lancet Psychiatry. The forum was held to highlight the susceptibility of women […]

Maternal Microbiome Legacy Project

Principal Investigator: Dr. Deborah Money Primary Contact: Zahra Pakzad, Research Coordinator, 604-875-2424 ext. 6379, zahra.pakzad@cw.bc.ca About the study: The role of bacterial communities throughout the body in health and disease is being widely studied. Preliminary research shows a possible link between delivery type (vaginal or caesarean delivery) and the bacterial communities found in the gut in early infancy. […]

Season’s Greetings from the Women’s Health Research Institute

As 2017 draws to a close, I am reminded of two annual traditions that surface at this time of the year. One is the frantic race to complete pressing tasks that I had committed to complete by year end. The second is the opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments, surprises, discoveries, challenges, and laughs over […]

BC Women’s Research Rounds: PErsonalized Genomics for prenatal Aneuploidy Screening USing maternal blood: Lessons Learned & Questions to be Answered

Presenter: Dr Sylvie Langlois, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG Date: January 19th, 2018 Time: 8:00am – 9:00am Location: Room D308 Shaughnessy Building Goals/Learning Objectives: Review the approaches and performance of cfDNA screening tests for common aneuploidy. Demonstrate the impact of second tier cfDNA screening. Discuss questions to be answered by ongoing research in this filed. Videoconferencing Sites […]

World AIDS Day: A look at Oak Tree Clinic

Oak Tree Clinic opened its doors in 1994 as the only HIV clinic in Canada catering specifically to the needs of women and children living with HIV. Based on the recent paper “Women living with HIV envision women-centred HIV care” the clinic is the model that Canadian women living with HIV envision: it provides high-quality […]

WHRI Annual Toy drive: a gift exchange with a twist!

At the WHRI, we have a tradition of doing a holiday gift exchange with a twist. Those who would like to participate are provided with a randomly selected co-worker’s name and asked to buy a gift for that person’s “inner child”. This provides a valuable opportunity to think more deeply about our colleagues, and, thereafter, […]

Dr Lori Brotto named APOG Researcher of the Year!

WHRI Executive Director Dr Lori Brotto is the 2017 recipient of the Association of Academic Professionals in Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Canada (APOG) Excellence in Research Award, which recognizes “outstanding scientific leadership, research mentoring, creative effort and major research accomplishments of a Canadian researcher active in APOG”. Congrats, Lori, on this well-deserved achievement!

Women’s Health Research Symposium Report

On October 25 2017, the Women’s Health Research Institute, together with the Vice President Research Office at Simon Fraser University, hosted a half-day women’s health research symposium at the beautiful SFU Diamond Alumni Centre. The event was entitled, “Examining diversity across disciplines, decades, and distances”. The event consisted of a trainee breakfast, a keynote presentation […]

Support for Canadian Research in new report from FINA

The House of Common’s Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) released its report, Driving Inclusive Growth: Spurring Productivity and Competitiveness in Canada that contains recommendations for consideration by the Minister of Finance for the 2018 federal budget. A number of recommendations stemming from the Naylor Report and Canada’s Fundamental Science Review have been proposed, including: Recommendation 2: […]