Congratulations to Dr. Paul Yong and Natasha Orr, recipients of a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) 2018 Reach Award! The Reach Award provides funding to support the dissemination and uptake of research evidence. Read our Q&A with Natasha below to find out more about their project!
The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) has announced the results of its 2018 Research Trainee competition, naming 33 post-doctoral fellows to be provided salary support through this award.
by Liisa Galea, Ph.D.
On July 13-14th, 140 attendants from around the world gathered in Toronto to share their research and insights on the Parental Brain.
Dr. Wendy Norman is a recipient of a 2018 CIHR Project Grant for The Canadian Nurse Practitioner medical abortion study! In 2017 Nurse Practitioners (NPs) became the first non-physicians permitted to perform abortion in Canada, although little is known about how to support them to provide medical abortions, or what barriers may exist for implementation of high quality care for this new service.
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.
On July 18th Dr. Lori Brotto was featured on CTV’s daytime talk show The Social to discuss her new book, Better Sex Through Mindfulness.