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Voices for Health Equity
Voices for Health Equity
This event is dedicated to showcases the groundbreaking work of leading and emerging public scholars and innovators in the health equity space.
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Subject – Learning And Research – Health
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Transforming Health Symposium
Transforming Health Symposium
The inaugural Transforming Health Symposium on November 4, 2024, presented by the UBC Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM), the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Precision Health Initiative, and Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub (CIEBH). This event will bring together a community of global thought leaders, clinicians, investigators, trainees and industry experts to examine the translational pathway highlighting areas of excellence locally […]
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2024 Rudolf Vrba Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Paul Insel, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Medicine UC San Diego Professor Insel’s research has focused on G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), their expression, signaling mechanisms, regulation, and functional roles in health and disease. His recent work identified expression of GPCRs in native cells and tissues and the potential of novel GPCRs as therapeutic […]
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CHSPR Seminar | Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Immigrant’s Health Care Access
CHSPR Seminar | Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Immigrant’s Health Care Access
Speaker: Ruth Lavergne, Dalhousie University The Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Immigrant’s Health Access project aimed to understand the health experiences of immigrants and migrants (im/migrants) in BC. With community engagement as the backbone to the study, it combined interviews with im/migrant community members and linked health and immigrations data to explore access to health care […]
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Wingspan Gala
Wingspan Gala
Overview Please join us for the launch, celebration and honoring of Wingspan’s film, Wings Rising: Disability Justice, Art and Education, Directed by Thomas Buchan and Produced by Leslie G. Roman Wingspan at UBC. Background photo credit: Daniel Biber “No solitary wing can rise. It may flap its rage and pain, but all that rises is […]
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Earl W. Davie Symposium
This annual 1-day symposium honours Dr. Earl W. Davie’s scientific contributions in hemostasis-thrombosis, which have impacted on the care of patients world-wide. He and his colleagues devised the revolutionary Waterfall Sequence for Blood Clotting, and subsequently, throughout the 1960s and ’70s, applied cutting edge technologies to identify and characterize most of the coagulation proteins and […]
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Earl W. Davie Symposium
This annual 1-day symposium honours Dr. Earl W. Davie’s scientific contributions in hemostasis-thrombosis, which have impacted on the care of patients world-wide. He and his colleagues devised the revolutionary Waterfall Sequence for Blood Clotting, and subsequently, throughout the 1960s and ’70s, applied cutting edge technologies to identify and characterize most of the coagulation proteins and […]
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Work in Progress Seminar: Comparing Buprenorphine/Baloxone and Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Work in Progress Seminar: Comparing Buprenorphine/Baloxone and Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Bohdan Nosyk, PhD, MA Scientist, Advancing Health Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University Adjunct Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, Simon Fraser University November 13, 2024 12:00–1:00 PM Room 1500 at St. Paul's Hospital, or Online Previous comparative effectiveness studies between buprenorphine and methadone provided limited evidence on differences in treatment effects across […]
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Indigenous Health Administration and Leadership Program (IHALP): 2025 Information Session
Indigenous Health Administration and Leadership Program (IHALP): 2025 Information Session
Join us for the 2025 Indigenous Health Administration and Leadership Program information session! Learn about the IHALP certificate program that is designed to support Indigenous organizations and communities to build strength-based, holistic programming that promotes health and well being. Learn about Indigenous communities and their own measures for success and unique cultural and geographical needs. […]
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“Capturing Grace” Film Screening
“Capturing Grace” Film Screening
Join the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health on November 16 for a FREE screening of the award-winning documentary “Capturing Grace,” which follows individuals with Parkinson’s as they prepare to stage a first-ever dance performance. Through determination, adversity, and contending with doubt, the film highlights the transformative power of art and the strength of the […]
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CHSPR Seminar | Missed Opportunities and Paths Forward for Health Services and Policy
CHSPR Seminar | Missed Opportunities and Paths Forward for Health Services and Policy
Speaker: Jason Sutherland, Interim Director, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) In this talk, Jason Sutherland will present his perspectives on the varied and bumpy road to policy-oriented health services research in Canada. Focusing on his past and future policy directions, research activities and student supervision, he will discuss his past missed […]
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Work in Progress Seminar: Implementing a peer-led program to reduce overdose among people leaving incarceration – The PREVAIL Project
Work in Progress Seminar: Implementing a peer-led program to reduce overdose among people leaving incarceration – The PREVAIL Project
Amanda Slaunwhite, PHD Scientist, Advancing Health Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC Beth Snow, PHD, MBA, CE Program Head – Evaluation, Advancing Health Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Population & Public Health, UBC Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University Vice President, Canadian Evaluation Society Jenyo Banjo, MPH Program Manager […]
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Evolving Threats and Emerging Solutions: Fundamentals from the Front Lines of Insect-borne Viruses Research
Evolving Threats and Emerging Solutions: Fundamentals from the Front Lines of Insect-borne Viruses Research
French Scientist in Residence at Green College Benjamin Matthews, Zoology; Roenick P. Olmo, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and French Scientist in Residence at Green College; and Selena Sagan, Microbiology and Immunology Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Wednesday, November 27, 5-6:30 pm Unlike applied research, fundamental research often yields findings that may […]