UBC Health Newsletter
UBC Health News is a monthly newsletter to keep colleagues, partners, students, and community members informed of our latest initiatives, collaborations, and funding opportunities.
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Leadership message from Dr. Kelleher, Vice-President, Health
News
- Call for proposals for Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards
- New funding opportunity to support collaborative health enrichment activities
- Health After 2020 dialogue sessions begin next month
- UBC Health to sponsor students and Indigenous peoples to attend TUFH conference
Events
- Health After 2020 Dialogue Sessions
- Lost in translation: Why studying sex/gender differences is not enough to move the dial on women’s health
- Home-based virtual reality therapeutics for mental health care: Opportunities and challenges
- Exploring barriers and facilitators to health equity: A public dialogue to advance research agendas related to opioid prescribing for pain conditions
- Engaging patients before and after childbirth from all walks of life in health research
- Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care Webinar
- Towards Unity for Health (TUFH) Conference
Past Issues
2022
News
- Nine interdisciplinary teams awarded funding for innovative health research
- Patient facilitators share rich insights with students in collaborative decision-making workshop
- Share your thoughts on improving health in BC
- Donna Drynan receives alumni achievement award from University of Toronto
Events
- Substance Use and Addiction Webinars
- Substance Use and Stigma
- Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care
- TBC @ UBC Network Event
- Racism is Deadlier than You Think: An Anti-Racist Approach to Health Education, Care, and Systems
- Towards Unity for Health Conference
2021
- Wishing you happy holidays and all the best for 2022!
- Practice education initiative catalyzes collective action to advance rural placements
- Indigenous Elder-led research collaboration in the Okanagan promotes culturally safe parenting
- Grant awarded to engage patients in delivery of medical education at UBC
- Moving Forward on a Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy
- Substance Use and Stigma Webinar
- TBC @ UBC Network Event
- Competition for 2021 UBC Health awards and scholarships now open
- Cross-institutional research teams to participate in Health After 2020 dialogue series
- Interdisciplinary HIFI team investigates effects of dual public health emergencies
- Call for abstracts open for global health conference at UBC
- Substance use and addiction webinars
- TBC @ UBC Network event
- 2021 John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship Award open for nominations
- Health After 2020 program brings together researchers around this inflection point in society
- Launching the TBC @ UBC Network to advance team-based care
- Finding the patient’s voice
- Substance use and addiction lunch & learn series
- Ben Fair appointed Assistant Director, Health Systems at UBC Health
- Interprofessional placement project in rural BC enhances health student experience
- Call for proposals for Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards open to UBC faculty
- Videos of patients and caregivers illustrate vital topics for health education
- Building a community of practice for substance use and addiction education
- In memoriam: Dr. James Frankish
- Disaggregated data dialogue session on research ethics
- Dr. Nadine Caron appointed Special Advisor on Indigenous Health to the Vice-President, Health and to the Dean, Faculty of Medicine
- Health After 2020 call for proposals now open
- Successful year for patient-led workshop series
- Health informatics game wins innovation award
- Donna Drynan appointed to Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative board of directors
- Health After 2020 initiative cultivates interdisciplinary research collaborations and launches with public lecture on July 14
- Health education symposia to drive transformations in teaching and learning
- UBC Health Awards Celebration
- Health Data Research Network Webinar
- Health After 2020 Launch and Public Lecture
- Message from UBC Health leadership
- Better health together: UBC Health launches 2021-2026 strategic plan
- Collaborative health education: Shaping the workforce of tomorrow
- Interdisciplinary health research: Catalyzing innovative collaborations
- Health systems: Advocating for positive change in health
- UBC Health to launch strategic plan
- Substance use and addiction training a priority for student learning
- Celebrating 10 years of health mentors
- Dr. Ray Markham appointed Special Advisor to the Vice-President, Health on Health Systems
- Students recognized for academic excellence and health field contributions
- Mentorship enables students to reach their full potential
- Ongoing engagement through disaggregated data dialogue series
- Six faculty teams awarded funding for innovative health research
- A UBC dialogue about the collection and use of disaggregated data
- Student learning enhanced by community educator
- 10th Annual UBC Interprofessional Health Mentors Virtual Symposium
- UBC Health Award recipients recognized for advancing health research mentorship and education
- Learning on the run about team-based care
2020
- Dr. Dermot Kelleher re-appointed as Vice-President, Health
- Moving towards better health together
- Student leads creation of unique patient support tool
- Using data to advance human rights
- What is health?
- Visioning retreat first step in broad engagement around team-based care
- Award-winning educator joins UBC Health
- Deadline reminder for UBC Health Awards + Scholarship submissions
- A new way to connect
- Introducing... the HIFI Awards
- Interprofessional learning goes online
- Pilot project REACHES out to rural BC