Dr. Craig Mitton's article entitled “Using evaluation theory in priority setting and resource allocation” published in Journal of Health Organization and Management has been chosen as an Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013.

The award winning papers are chosen following consultation amongst the Emerald journal’s Editorial Team, many of whom are eminent academics or practitioners. Further information regarding the Awards for Excellence is available here.

Congratulations, Dr. Mitton.

Congratulations to Dr. Chris McLeod, who is a recipient of a UBC Hampton Research Fund award for his project entitled "The health and well being consequences of the great recession: a comparative and cross-jurisdictional analysis."

Hampton Fund Research Grants are designed to fund research that is short-term , interdisciplinary and that forms a new direction in the research career of the investigator(s

Dr. McLeod's study aims to:

1. Describe the effects of work-related and economic determinants on health and health inequalities during the recent recession in a representative set of high-incomes countries.
2. Investigate the effect of labour market experiences related to the availability of work and to economic security on health inequalities before, during and after, the recession.
3. Investigate how societal-level factors could modify or mediate these inequalities including those related to the structure of the labour market (e.g., gender, education and occupational position as modifying factors) and those related to labour market and welfare supports (e.g. unemployment benefits and welfare transfers as mediating factors).

Congratulations, Dr. McLeod!

Congratulations to Dr. Elango!

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Law, winner of the UBC Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award for Overall Excellence - Early Career.

Dr. Law was very successful in terms of knowledge translation and policy impact from his work on generic drug prices. As a result of his opinion piece on the high generic drug prices in Canada, he met with then Minister of Health, Michael de Jong who brought his work to the attention of Canadian Premiers through the Council of the Federation’s Health Innovation Working Group. They announced they would collaborate on lowering generic prices, which culminated in a joint announcement in January 2013 of a new pricing model that will save provinces approximately $100 million per year.

Dr. Law also won the MSHFR Career investigator Scholar Award in 2012, and his paper, “The effect of cost on adherence to prescription medications in Canada”, published in CMAJ won the 2012 CIHR-IHSPR Article of the Year Award.

Dr. Koehoorn is an Associate Professor in the School of Population and Public Health and co-lead of its Occupational and Environmental Health theme. She is also an Associate Faculty with the Institute for Work & Health. She co-leads the Partnership for Work, Health and Safety, and was recently awarded a CIHR Chair in Gender, Work and Health.

Dr. Koehoorn will be presented with her award at the UBC Spring Convocation.

Congratulations, Mieke!

Dr. Jane Buxton has won the British Columbia Provincial Health Officer's Award for Excellence in Public Health. Dr. Buxton won this award for her "persistent and pioneering work to bring equitable harm reduction services and supplies to all of British Columbia."

Congratulations, Jane!

Congratulations, Brian!

James M Robinson and George Elliot
More information about James M Robinson and George Elliot, for whom these awards were named.

Selection of winners
BC Medical Health officers, Public Health Association of BC members and SPPH faculty members have the opportunity to nominate individuals for these awards. The final list of nominees is reviewed and the winner selected by a committee composed of a Chair, a Provincial Health Officer, a retired member of the public health community, and a representative from SPPH.

Dr. Jane Buxton has won the 2012 James M. Robinson Award, for significant contributions to public health. Dr. Buxton was presented with the award at the Health Officers Council of British Columbia meeting last week.

Dr. Buxton is an Associate Professor in the School of Population & Public Health and an Epidemiologist and harm reduction lead at the BC Centre for Disease Control. She trained in Medicine in the UK, qualified in Canada in the 1993 and completed a residency in Community Medicine at UBC. She joined the UBC faculty in 2000.

Dr. David Patrick, Director of the School of Population and Public Health said, "Jane Buxton has exemplified the qualities celebrated by the Robinson award for years. She has formed a durable bridge between the domains of public health practice and education and there is no important area of public health education that she has left untouched. I feel that she deserved to receive this award years ago, and that the only reason she could not was that she was, in her own fashion, busy managing and adjudicating the awards to the benefit of everyone else!"

Congratulations, Jane!

James M Robinson and George Elliot
More information about James M Robinson and George Elliot, for whom these awards were named.

Selection of winners
BC Medical Health officers, Public Health Association of BC members and SPPH faculty members have the opportunity to nominate individuals for these awards. The final list of nominees is reviewed and the winner selected by a committee composed of a Chair, a Provincial Health Officer, a retired member of the public health community, and a representative from SPPH.

Economic Action Plan 2013 proposes $595 million over 5 years to the Homelessness Partnering Strategy using a 'Housing First' approach. Building on the successful At Home/Chez Soi project, the Government will continue to work in partnership with provinces and territories, communities, the private sector and other stakeholders, such as the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, to reduce homelessness.

In Vancouver this project is administered by SPPH's Dr. Jim Frankish, UBC Psychiatry's Michael Krausz and Julian Somers from SFU Health Sciences.

Congratulations to all involved

Dr. Trask served as UBC Bridge program Doctoral Fellow from 2003 to 2008, when she completed her dissertation in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. Catherine did her internship at the Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare, and post doctoral work at the Swedish Centre for Musculoskeletal Research.

Dr. Trask credits the "training and nurturing I received at UBC" with helping her achieve this position.

Congratulations, Dr Trask.