WHRI Graduate Student Achievement Award – Zeba Khan
March 28, 2024Congratulations to Zeba Khan, WACH PhD student, on being awarded one of the inaugural WHRI Graduate Student Achievement Awards! This award recognizes Zeba’s academic excellence in completing her Master’s research project, Contraception Options and Reproductive Access (CORA) for Newcomer Youth in Canada: A Qualitative Knowledge Translation Investigation, in 2023. Zeba received the award at the […] Read More >
CANTRAIN Awards in Clinical Trials
March 13, 2024Congratulations to the holders of CANTRAIN Awards in Clinical Trials: Sofia Nicolls Master’s Studentship Supervisor: Dr. Deborah Money Project: NOVA-HIV Study: reduced dosing of the Nonavalent HPV Vaccine in Women Living with HIV Sofia recently received a first place prize for her poster presentation at the first national CANTRAIN conference, the Clinical Trials Training Summit. […] Read More >
WACH Research Day – April 16
March 11, 2024 We are pleased to announce that registration and abstract submissions are open for the WACH Research Day, April 16, 9:00am – 1:00pm. Research Day will feature oral presentations from senior students, and poster presentations from WACH 502 and other interested students. Lunch will be provided. Prizes will be awarded to the best presentations! […] Read More >
WACH Child Health Awards
February 27, 2024Congratulations to the inaugural winners of WACH Child Health Awards, celebrating diversity! This program provides research training awards to graduate students in the WACH program who are from equity-deserving groups whose research aims to improve child health. Simran Gill Project: Active Steps: Feasibility of a virtual intervention to promote active lifestyles in children with type […] Read More >
Congratulations BCCHR Studentship winners!
February 23, 2024Congratulations to the WACH recipients of BCCHR studentships! Masters Studentships Supervisor Award Name Project Title Sahar Zandi Nia Matthew Wiens BCCHR Masters Studentship External validation and updating of prognostic models to identify hospitalized children at highest risk of in-hospital mortality in low-resource settings Simran Gill Christine Voss BCCHR Masters Studentship Physical activity behaviours and determinants […] Read More >
Could chicken eggs help revolutionize cancer treatment for children?
February 22, 2024Each year, on average 880 children in Canada under the age of 15 are diagnosed with cancer. Dr. James Lim is a part of a research team helping to bring new hope to children battling hard-to-treat cancers. Dr. Lim and his colleagues are the first scientists in Canada to use the chicken egg model (technically […] Read More >
Endometriosis: Towards better diagnosis and treatment
February 22, 2024Endometriosis affects nearly 1 in 10 women in Canada and an unmeasured number of gender diverse people. Dr. Paul Yong is helping ignite change for thousands of people faced with this painful disorder. Dr. Yong is a supervisor in the WACH program, and works as a gynaecologist offering surgery and interdisciplinary care at BC Women’s […] Read More >
Meet Public Scholar, Almira Zhantuyakova
February 22, 2024Congratulations to Almira Zhantuyakova on joining the latest cohort of Public Scholars, doctoral students doing collaborative research for the public good. Almira is investigating the feasibility and awareness of an ovarian cancer prevention strategy called Opportunistic Salpingectomy among Kazakhstani gynecologists. Her research includes a comprehensive epidemiological analysis of gynecologic surgeries and the assessment of attitudes […] Read More >
Congratulations to Claire Lawrence, on her successful MSc defense!
July 4, 2023Congratulations to Claire, who completed her MSc defense last week! Claire is the first WACH student to defend their thesis. Claire’s thesis project was: “Evaluation of the effectiveness of a web-enabled psychoeducational intervention for postpartum mental health for women in British Columbia.” She was co-supervised by Dr. Lori Brotto and Dr. Genevieve Breau. We asked […] Read More >
World’s Challenge Challenge Gold Medal Winners, Piper and Samantha!
June 20, 2023A huge congratulations to Piper Scott-Fiddler and Samantha Martin-Ferris, who recently won first prize at the World’s Challenge Challenge Global Final! The World’s Challenge Challenge asks student participants to think big and come up with an idea to make our world a better place. Samantha and Piper placed first at the UBC competition, and moved […] Read More >