Starting this month, we will be sending an e-newsletter out every two weeks. The first e-newsletter of the month will focus on WHRI news and the accomplishments of our members, while the second will focus on events, funding, and other opportunities that may be of interest to our community. If you have something to submit to either edition of the newsletter, please reach out to whri.communications@cw.bc.ca as early as possible.

We'd like to remind you of our new WHRI Research Services Office Hour. This is an opportunity for you and your team to connect with our various content experts, including our Digital Health Manager, Research Development Facilitator, Knowledge Translation Manager, and Communications Coordinator, to learn more about their services to get support for your projects. See below for details.

Kathryn Dewar, PhD 

• Senior Research Manager | Women's Health Research Institute

We're hiring!

We're looking for a full-time Statistical Assistant/Technician 4 for a 12-month appointment. The individual in this role will be working directly with the WHRI Biostatistician.

View the job posting and apply here. The posting is open through midnight May 10, 2022. 

Please feel free to circulate this job opportunity throughout your networks.

Contact Kathryn Dewar at kdewar@cw.bc.ca with any questions.

Episode 18:
Reproductive Mental Health

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In honour of World Maternal Mental Health Day, Dr. Kathryn Dewar interviewed Dr. Catriona Hippman and Claire Lawrence about their work and reproductive mental health. 

As we near the end of Mental Health Week, we encourage you to share this episode with your own networks, along with the resources included in our show notes.

Are you recruiting at BC Women's?

We're rolling out a series of changes to the BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre research pages to make it easier for prospective research participants to connect with active studies. 

If you are recruiting out of BC Women's and would like your study listed on the website, please reach out to whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for more information. 

ICYMI: WHRI Research Services Office Hour

The WHRI is pleased to introduce an office hour on the second Thursday of each month to discuss your research needs.

Connect with our Digital Health Manager, Research Development Facilitator, Knowledge Translation Manager, and Communications Coordinator to learn about our services and to get support for your projects.

Drop in virtually through Zoom or in-person in the H214 meeting room at the Women's Health Research Institute offices.

This month our office hour be held Thursday, May 12th from 10am-11am PST - join us and share your projects!

Are you interested in learning methods to test and evaluate usability of digital health technology? Don’t miss out on a 2-part virtual workshop hosted by WHRI and BCCHR, Designing Better Health Information Technologies: Usability & Human Factors Evaluation.

Dr. Andre Kushniruk and Dr. Elizabeth Borycki will be leading interactive workshops on May 5 and 12 between 12:00-1:30pm. Register for one or both sessions and learn how to develop and evaluate digital tools which are user friendly and usable!

Join UBC Health for their next Health After 2020 dialogue session and forward this invitation to your colleagues and partners.

Engaging patients before and after childbirth from all walks of life in health research
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
12:00-1:00 pm
Register: http://bit.ly/ha2020vidler

A multidisciplinary and cross-institutional research team is developing a strategy to foster diversity in patient engagement in the perinatal period. The strategy will outline the best ways to identify and engage diverse patient representatives in pregnancy and postpartum to improve our understanding of their health and health concerns.

This dialogue session will provide an opportunity to present the draft strategy and gather feedback from health partners. Learnings from this session will be incorporated into the patient engagement strategy and shared with all interested parties for future adaptation and use. This workshop may support future research projects achieve greater patient engagement from historically underrepresented populations.

The research team welcomes a broad audience of patients, researchers, healthcare providers, and health system decision-makers. The team is particularly keen to include those with lived experience of pregnancy as well as researchers, clinicians, and decision-makers in the field of maternal and child health.

Speakers

• Dr. Marianne Vidler, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
• Dr. Janny Xue Chen Ke, Clinical Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
• Dr. Justine Dol, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mothering Transitions Research Lab, St. Michael's Hospital