Home-based virtual reality therapeutics for mental health care: Opportunities and challenges

Online/Virtual Event

Virtual reality (VR) is rapidly emerging as an effective tool to treat and assess mental health concerns. VR—which creates interactive, immersive, and naturalistic settings—has been shown to improve symptoms, promote functional recovery, and accurately assess real-world capabilities across a range of psychiatric disorders. The future will no doubt see VR incorporated into clinical care. This, […]

Engaging patients before and after childbirth from all walks of life in health research

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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 […]

State-Level Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

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Health After 2020 dialogue sessions are held as part of the Health After 2020 program at UBC Health, which enables researchers to engage in interdisciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations that aim to create change in health and health producing systems. These collaborations respond to the broad effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and further our understanding of the […]

Substance Use Among International Students from Punjab in BC’s Lower Mainland

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Health After 2020 dialogue sessions are held as part of the Health After 2020 program, which enables researchers to engage in interdisciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations that aim to create change in health and health producing systems. These collaborations respond to the broad effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and further our understanding of the determinants and experience […]