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Congratulations 2024 Banting Fellow Maggie Woo Kinshella!
Mai-Lei (Maggie) Woo Kinshella is delighted to be joining King’s College London this Fall 2024 as a Banting Fellow! The highly competitive Banting Fellowships program supports Canada’s top-tier postdoctoral researchers, with only 23 health researchers funded across the nation in 2023-2024. Building on her strong research foundation developed at the Elango Lab and Women+ and… Read More >
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Congratulations 2024 Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s winners!
Congratulations to the all of the Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s winners for 2024-25! We are very excited for you to start or continue your research in the WACH program. Irene Chen CIHR CGS-M Social Media in Patients that have Received a Solid Organ Transplant During Childhood and their Families: Exploring Mental Health Needs, Challenges and… Read More >
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WACH Research Day – 2024
The second annual WACH Research Day was a great success, with six oral presentations from MSc and PhD students nearing the end of their programs, and 27 poster presentations from first and upper year students. Thank you to all those who attended and presented! It was a wonderful opportunity to share the diversity of excellent… Read More >
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WACH Student Organization Events – 2023-24
The WACH Student Organization is a student-run organization that coordinates social events, wellness initiatives, and more. Check out some of the events they ran in 2023-24! You can also follow ubcwachso on Instagram or reach them at wach.social@ubc.ca. WACH Us Move Challenge A fun, week-long challenge to promote student wellness through daily activities. Students could participate daily… Read More >
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D.A. Boyes Memorial Research Award 2024 – Jalisa Karim
Congratulations to Jalisa Karim, one of the recipients of the 2024 D.A. Boyes Memorial Research Award! Jalisa is a WACH PhD candidate, supervised by Dr. Gillian Hanley. Jalisa received funding from the D.A. Boyes Memorial Research Award for the qualitative project below. Endometriosis and Treatment Decision-Making in the Context of Pregnancy Planning Jalisa is conducting… Read More >