Mark your calendars

Catalyst Grants, Graduate and Trainee Awards, a special Rounds presentation on the BC Perinatal Data Registry - keep scrolling for all of the important dates coming up this month!

Congratulations to the WHRI members who led and co-led the successful Spring CIHR Project, Priority Announcement, and Operating grants. 

We invite you to celebrate #WorldSexualHealthDay2021 with us on Friday September 10th from 12:00 to 1:30 pm.  The event will showcase sexual health research led by women’s health trainees across British Columbia and feature special guests from  Options for Sexual Health.

Are you a trainee, student, fellow, or other researcher in training?  We invite you to submit your project as an abstract for the opportunity to present at our WHRI World Sexual Health Day event! Abstracts are due by August 20th at 5pm PST.

Register now to attend our FREE event, or submit an abstract to present!

Join us on August 26th for an afternoon of virtual rapid-fire presentations on women and newborn health-related research projects enabled by BC Perinatal Data Registry data from students, trainees, fellows, and other researchers-in-training.

Connect via Zoom 
Meeting ID: 617 1491 9656
Passcode: 690387

Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women’s Health Grant Competition

The Women’s Health Research Institute, in partnership with the BC Women’s Health Foundation, is pleased to announce the 2021 Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women's Health.

This award is intended to provide salary support to WHRI-affiliated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are engaged in women’s and/or newborn health research and who do not currently hold major competitive salary awards.

2021 Women's Health Research Institute Catalyst Grants

The REQUIRED Letter of Intent for this year's Catalyst Grant competition is due August 31st at 11pm PDT. 

A total of seven grants will be awarded at $25,000 each. Please read through the instructions carefully.

These pilot grants are an open competition with respect to funding a project in women’s and newborn’s health. One of the seven grants will be dedicated to the support of a biomedical health research project involving investigations in female animals.