Celebrating WHRI’s 2024 C2 and Reach Award Recipients
Congratulations to twenty-five of our incredible WHRI members who are among the recipients of the 2024 Michael Smith Health Research BC Convening and Collaborating (C2) and Reach Awards!
The C2 and Reach Awards bring together researchers, research users, such as health professionals, patients, policymakers, helping to ensure that evidence is used to improve health care across BC.
To read all award recipients:
Convening and Collaborating (C2) Award:
Dr. Lori Brotto
Better Aging in BC: Mapping Menopause Research Priorities
Dr. Brian Christie
Evaluating Wolves’ Den: A traumatic brain injury-focussed peer support and education group
Dr. Astrid Christoffersen-Deb
Seizing the Window of Opportunity: Co-creating an Enhanced Prenatal Care Program to Build Resilience among Socially Vulnerable Populations
Dr. Mei Fang
Exploring the role of seniors centres within the primary healthcare system
Dr. Jerilynn Prior, Co-lead
Healthy Aging Among Trans People Using Hormone Therapy: Setting the Research Agenda
Dr. Cheryl Heykoop
Pregnancy Loss Rates in British Columbia, Canada: Pathways to Improved Care for Patients and Families Impacted by Pregnancy Loss
Dr. Mary Jung
A path to success: Convening service providers and patients to understand diabetes prevention care referral pathways and co-develop a research agenda for the interior of BC
Dr. Elizabeth Keys
Promoting sleep health for families in British Columbia foster and kinship care
Miranda Amundsen, Co-lead
Building a practice-based research learning community in British Columbia to strengthen learning health systems and health human resources
Dr. Mohamed Bedaiwy
Reproductive Aging and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: Establishing A Research Advisory Board
Dr. Wendy Norman & Cheryl Davies, Co-lead
Beyond Pills: Exploring Pharmacists’ Role in Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Services
Dr. Bernadette Pauly
Collaborative Planning of an Evaluation Framework for Peer Involvement in Cannabis Substitution within a Managed Alcohol Program
Oralia Gómez-Ramírez
Identifying research priorities to support the evaluation of “upstream” health promotion initiatives in British Columbia
Reach Award:
Dr. Lori Brotto & Shirley Weir, Co-lead
Mobilizing Menopause Research in BC: Disseminating Results of the HER-BC Study with the Public and Practitioners
Dr. Helen Brown
Art for connection and wellbeing: Integrated Knowledge Translation to support health literacy with and for men in prison in BC.
Alison M. Elliott & Dr. Horacio Osiovich, Co-lead
Developing Educational Tools for Neonatal Intensive Care Staff Regarding Rapid Genome-wide Sequencing
Dr. Nichole Fairbrother
Improving new parents’ mental health via an educational video about infant-related harm thoughts
Dr. A. Fuchsia Howard
Women’s Insights Shared and Empowered (WISE): Amplifying the Voices of Asian Women with Endometriosis
Dr. Leah Lambert
From policy to practice: Provincial outreach to optimize the Clinical Nurse Specialist workforce in British Columbia
Dr. Melanie Murray
What healthy aging means to me: a community-collaborative knowledge mobilization initiative with, by, and for, women living with HIV.
Dr. Christine Ou
Beyond Birth: Enhancing a Parental Guide to Support Perinatal Mental Health in BC
Dr. Bernadette Pauly
Cannabis Substitution of Alcohol as a Component of Managed Alcohol Programs: Co-Developing and Disseminating Research Evidence from a Recent Pilot Project.
Dr. Farah Shroff
Creating Educational Materials to Teach the Sympto-Thermal Method to Newcomers