MIHCan is hosting an event centred around BIWOC (Black, Indigenous, Women of Colour) themes, with activities focusing on wellbeing including meditation, reflection, and creativity.
Speaker: Jeffrey Morgan, UBC Register to attend this seminar in-person (SPPH) or virtually (via Zoom). Jeffrey Morgan will present in-person. Survey “marginalia” are the spontaneous notes, doodles, comments, and written addenda offered by participants in the margins of a survey. They exist outside the bounds of what was asked, and transgress the conventions of a […]
Get information and resources to help you pursue your educational and career journey in rural healthcare. Hear rural students’ perspectives on getting into and succeeding in health professions schools and programs. Get tips on applying to schools and learn what it’s like to be a student in dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and medical school. Hear students’ experiences […]
Dr Wade Thompson is a pharmacist and researcher at the Therapeutics Initiative and has clinical experience in long-term care, geriatric outpatient clinics and primary care clinics. Wade will discuss evidence on statin deprescribing among older adults and considerations for applying evidence to individual patients.
Join Vancouver Art Gallery and UBC's Vision Research Cluster in exploring multisensory art and inclusion through collaborative and tactile experiences, ensuring full accessibility for a diverse audience.
This seminar is a follow-up to the recently published study in the BMJ on the effect of opioid and stimulant Risk Mitigation Guidance dispensations on mortality (Slaunwhite et al., BMJ 2024;384:e076336). This seminar is aimed at care providers and will be led by Dr. Bohdan Nosyk, who will answer pre-submitted and live questions on the analysis […]
Join us as we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Thursday, February 8, 2024. Hear from inspiring female leaders who are paving the way for research in health sciences. Presented by BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Women's Health Research Institute and BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services Research Institute. Registration for this free […]
Speaker: Sian Tsuei The health care industry has seen increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies over the last several years. The dizzying pace of development is generating a vast range of implications for health care service providers and policymakers. To facilitate productive dialogue and research on AI-related health services and policies implementation and research, […]
Join UBC’s Drs. Jeff Clune and Gail Murphy in a discussion of how to best access and use these tools ethically and to our advantage, while understanding the risks they bring.
About the talk While the extant literature has established the barriers to accessing care that transgender and gender diverse communities face, less attention has been paid to where gender-affirming care is provided and how geographically accessible it is. This talk focuses on a case study modeling access to gender-affirming hormone therapy in Texas, and looks […]
In this fourth session featuring Dr. Julie Robillard, we will explore the impact of social robot use in the context of brain health and illness, and discuss key ethical implications surrounding their use. Dr. Julie Robillard is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia and Scientist in Patient Experience at BC […]
In this webinar, Eryn and Jorden, two First Nations women and early career health leaders, discuss their journeys throughout higher education in public health – moving from merely surviving within a western institution to thriving with the cultivation of strong, Indigenous networks. They will then discuss the realizations that led to their careers dismantling Indigenous-specific […]