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Dr. Nadine Caron, co-Director of the SPPH Centre for Indigenous Health and Canada’s first female First Nations general surgeon, has been appointed to a newly created UBC position dedicated to improving cancer outcomes and wellness among Indigenous peoples.

The report estimates that resistant bacterial infections were responsible for over 14,000 deaths in Canada in 2018, with around 26% of bacterial infections currently resistant to first-line antimicrobials. Those with weaker immune systems and/or pre-existing medical conditions are most susceptible to AMR exposure and developing resistant infections. The Panel asserts that action must be taken to protect vulnerable populations, including socially marginalized groups, those living in poverty, the homeless, and people with substance use disorders.

The University of British Columbia is excited to announce that it is now a member of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH).

Five graduating MHA students received awards recognizing their leadership in health care administration.

Research led by SPPH’s Dr. Gina Ogilvie has been given $10 million in funding by the federal government for the continuation of research which would help achieve the goal of eventually eliminating cervical cancer.

The Canadian government has announced an investment of $81 million over seven years into the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Canadian Data Platform (SPOR), which is spearheaded by Dr. Kim McGrail from the School of Population and Public Health. 

Mo Korchinski, Project Administrator for the Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education, SPPH has been nominated in the category of Community Champion for the 2019 YWCA Women of Distinction Awards.

SPPH Faculty members Nick Bansback, Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, Amee Manges, Bonnie Henry, Wei Zhang were awarded more than $1.3 million in CIHR project grants.

Congratulations to SPPH Professor Steve Morgan, recipient of the 2019 Hall Laureate Award Recipient  the Justice Emmett Hall .

Matt Wagstaff, a new graduate of the UBC Master of Science in Occupational Health and Environmental Hygiene program, undertook a thesis project to develop a new mobile monitoring method for air quality.

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The findings suggest that discrimination on the basis of imprisonment is a significant barrier for people trying to access physician care upon release.

The program will start by teaching you what is “in the box”, so you can — confidently, but strategically — think outside it.

“Our study was concerned with effects of possible changes in policy for the timing of surgery on mortality in the population of patients with hip fracture in Canada,” says lead author Boris Sobolev, a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health.

Six graduating MHA students received awards recognizing their leadership in health care administration.

Regardless of what role you envision yourself holding in an organization, a solid understanding of strategy is essential if you are going to contribute to major decisions.

University of British Columbia researchers, including School of Population and Public Health faculty, have been awarded $43m for 65 projects through Canadian Institutes for Health Research Project Grants. Image credit: CIHR IPPH

Titilola Falasinnu gets up every morning thinking about the women in her life who have been affected by lupus.

SPPH students Andrea Jones and Kyle Meeking won the best oral presentation and poster at the recent Cascadia Occupational, Environmental and Population Health conference.

More than 900,000 Canadians reduced their spending on basic necessities like food and heat to pay for prescription drugs in 2016, according to new research by a team from the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, McMaster University, and The University of Toronto. Photo credit: Charles Williams/Flickr. This image has been cropped.