Congratulations to the WHRI Catalyst Grant Recipients for 2022!

The WHRI is delighted to announce the six recipients of the Catalyst Grant competition for 2022: Dr. Jennifer Hutcheon, Dr. Samantha Dawson, Dr. Maya Gislason, Dr. Jefferson Terry, Dr. Katrina Bouchard, and Dr. Tara Sedlak. 

We express gratitude to the BC Women’s Health Foundation for their dedicated support for this competition and enabling our members to actualize our strategic aim of catalyzing new women's health research. 

World AIDS Day Spotlight

In honour of World AIDS Day on December 1st, we are revisiting the incredible work carried out by the HIV Made Me Fabulous team. 

Earlier this year, we were honoured to have Dr. Angela Kaida, Juno Roche, Edmond Kilpatrick, and Azra Bhanji join us on the @WomensResearch podcast to talk about their process and lessons learned developing this knowledge translation project, and the impact of their incredible short film.

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Did you know that we are active on LinkedIn and Instagram? 

Follow us on LinkedIn for funding opportunities, awards announcements, events, publications, and other research-related news.

And join us on Instagram for fun, educational, plain language content geared toward a public audience! We regularly feature our members' work here through our two ongoing initiatives, Work With Us Wednesdays and Fact Fridays. 

Do you want to learn more about how we can collaborate on social media? Email us at whri.communications@cw.bc.ca.

@WomensResearch Wellness Exchange - Mobilizing Results

On October 6th, 2022 the WHRI hosted an @WomensResearch Wellness Exchange, our bi-annual public event. The topic, Cancer Prevention and Screening garnered almost one hundred attendees, a full question & answer session, and achieved pan-Canadian representation.

We invite you to read the full story and connect with us if you have research findings ready for dissemination to a public audience.

@WomensResearch returns!

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We're back with another episode of the @WomensResearch podcast!

This month we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Astrid Christoffersen-Deb, AJ Murray, and Sarah Heng Hartse about how they developed an informational video about miscarriage for patients at BC Women's Hospital and beyond.

Save the date for the Eighth Annual Women's Health Research Symposium!

Wednesday, March 8 | 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | In-person (Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre) + Virtual

Theme of this year’s event is Women’s Mental Health.

This year’s event is being co-hosted by the WHRI and the BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute as the theme of our 2023 event will focus on advancing women’s mental health through research. Dr. Lori Brotto and Dr. Jehannine Austin (as Executive Directors of both Research Institutes) are co-leading the symposium planning committee.

Please note that we will be hosting a mentorship and networking event for trainees engaged in women’s health research after the main symposium program.

Please share this event with your networks. An email to register for the symposium will be sent in the coming months.

WHRI Reading List

Check out the latest publication from the Contraception and Abortion Research Team! Their paper explores nurse practitioners' experiences of medication abortion implementation in Canada.

Don't forget to share your new publications with our team at whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for inclusion in the reading list.