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New Funding Opportunity to Protect and Nurture Early Child Development!
Saving Brains has just announced a $250,000 funding opportunity that aims to address the risk factors children living in adversity face by providing innovative solutions to promote health and nutrition, and protect against maltreatment. This funding opportunity is open to applicants in low and middle income countries, as well as Canada, with the ultimate goal […]
Dr. Saraswathi Vedam Creates New Tool to Rate the Quality of Research in Place of Birth Outcomes!
Place of birth is known to affect health outcomes, specifically when comparing women who give birth at home with women who give birth in a hospital or centre. While there are many studies that examine this difference, different conclusions are often drawn regarding the safety of home, birth centre, or hospital. To address this inconsistency, […]
BC SUPPORT Unit Calls for Abstracts!
Do you have any patient-oriented research project, completed in whole or in part? The BC Support Unit want to help you get your patient-oriented research project out to your colleagues! Send in any patient-oriented research to the BC SUPPORT Unit at info@bcsupportunit.ca for the chance to: Have your poster promoted on the BC SUPPORT Unit’s Posters […]
BC Womens Hospital Research Rounds, in celebration of World Sexual Health Day 2017
This year’s theme for world sexual health day is Love, Bonding, and Intimacy. This theme goes beyond the current definition of “intimacy” which almost always implies being sexual with another person. It aims to break the idea that sexuality is just having sex, integrating the emotional aspects of it, and the human need for bonding. […]
WHRI Themes Have Been Updated!
The Mission of the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) is to: Create new knowledge and evidence-based solutions that inform and transform the health and health care of women and their families. Guided by this mission, for the past several years, the WHRI has organized its research around seven research themes, representing the scope of research […]
Save-The-Date: Aging Well for Women
On Thursday September 28th the Women’s Health Research Institute will be hosting a public forum entitled Aging Well for Women: How to Optimize Your Health Through Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond. Dr. Nicole Todd, Joanie Sims-Gould, Liisa Galea, and WHRI Executive Director, Dr. Lori Brotto, will speak at the forum to discus topics such as hormones, […]
WHRI Announcing New Salary Award!
The Women’s Health Research Institute is proud to announce the establishment of a new salary award for a clinician-scientist in the UBC Department of Medical Genetics, funded by the BC Women’s Hospital Foundation. The award will allow the clinician to devote 30 hours/week to research, and will serve as a major catalyst for the incumbent’s […]
WCE Patient Highlights
PATIENT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WORLD CONGRESS ON ENDOMETRIOSIS 1. What were the highlights of the conference for you? I had the pleasure of volunteering at the conference which was, in itself, a highlight. It was helpful to see doctors as people without them measuring their words so carefully and just being open about how damaging […]
Save-The-Date: Ready, Set, Go! Moving Evidence into Practice and Policy
Do you have evidence that is ready for implementation? If so, the WHRI is pleased to announce that on Friday October 13, 2017 we are co-hosting “Ready, Set, Go! Moving Evidence into Practice and Policy”, a FREE full-day workshop with the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. What is this about? This workshop will focus […]