Congratulations to the new and renewed Canada Research Chairs!

We would like to extend a warm congratulations to Dr. Crystal Karakochuk and Dr. Gina Ogilvie on their new and renewed Canada Research Chair appointments!

Dr. Karakochuk has been appointed a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Micronutrients and Human Health.

Dr. Ogilvie is a renewed Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV-Related Disease and Cancer.

Read about the other Canada Research Chairs at UBC or the full Canada Research Chairs announcement.

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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