Book Launch: Effective Pandemic Response: Linking Evidence, Intervention, Politics, Organization, and Governance with Drs. Peter Berman and David Patrick

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us for an engaging discussion on global health preparedness and response at the launch of Effective Pandemic Response: Linking Evidence, Intervention, Politics, Organization, and Governance, a groundbreaking multi-volume reference edited by Peter Berman, Emeritus Professor and Editor-in-Chief, David Patrick, Professor and Editor, Ashley Larnder, PhD Student and Editor, Candice Ruck, Editor. This collection brings together diverse disciplines—from epidemiology and medical […]

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CHSPR Seminar | Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in BC: Exploring 20 Years of Data

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Michael Bond, UBC School of Population and Public Health Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (TSCI) is a debilitating condition that can have significant effects on physical function and overall quality of life. Treatment and management are challenging and costly to health care systems, society, and the individual as they absorb privately borne costs that are […]

CHSPR Seminar | Creating an Enduring Primary Care Data Asset in BC

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Sabrina Wong, University of BC Limited visibility into patient journeys across the continuum of care contributes to a fragmented primary, community and acute healthcare system in BC, leading to poor patient outcomes, experience and access. Decreasing fragmentation in BC’s health information through federating electronic health records and linking to other data (e.g. administrative and […]

CHSPR/CAE Seminar: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities of Palliative Psychiatry

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Daniel Buchman, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Palliative psychiatry is an emerging subfield of mental health care that focuses on improving quality of life and relieving suffering in people living with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI), rather than aiming solely for symptom remission or cure. Palliative psychiatry applies the principles of palliative […]

CHSPR Seminar | Evolving Strategies for Ovarian Cancer Prevention: Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of Risk-Reducing Salpingectomy

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Alex Lukey, PhD Candidate, School of Population and Public Health Growing confidence in both the origins of ovarian cancer and the safety and effectiveness of salpingectomy as a preventive strategy has led to increased adoption of opportunistic salpingectomy in clinical practice. Although current guidelines only recommend salpingectomy opportunistically, the greatest reduction in mortality and […]

Accessing Data through DASH—Breaking Barriers: Distributed Analysis for Multi-regional Research

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us for an exclusive webinar introducing Distributed Analysis—a groundbreaking methodological innovation designed to transform how researchers conduct multi-regional studies. Traditional data-sharing models often face roadblocks related to privacy and regulatory compliance. Distributed analysis offers a powerful alternative: enabling researchers to analyze data across multiple regions without physically pooling datasets. In this session, you'll learn: […]