Upcoming Events
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May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar
Housing Is Healthcare: Equity In Access For All Residents Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Inequities exist within Canada’s public healthcare system, including geographic disparities that impact access to care. In British Columbia, patients who need highly specialized care must access their treatment in the Lower Mainland.…
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April 2025 Rounds | Dr. Robert Petrella
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with our department head, Dr. Robert Petrella! Sport Fandom as an Engagement Innovation in Hard-to-Reach Populations: A Cluster RCT to Evaluate a Community-Based Health Behaviour Change Intervention Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Obesity is a relapsing, progressive chronic…
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February 2025 Rounds | Dr. Nisha Malhotra and Dr. Ruvini Amarasekera
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with Nisha Malhotra (The Birthplace Lab) and Ruvini Amarasekera (R2, St. Paul’s Hospital) Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific TimeTitle 1: Healthcare Disparities in Canada: Examining the Role of Socio-Economic Status and Identity Factors (12:00 – 12:55)Title 2: Embedding Indigenous Ways of Knowing…
News and Announcements
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Dr. Joana Gil-Mohapel Wins 2024-2025 Killam Teaching Prize
Dr. Gil-Mohapel is a lecturer with the Department of Family Practice who is also a member of UBC Faculty of Medicine’s MD Undergraduate program (UGME) and the Island Medical Program.
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UBC Department of Family Practice Researchers Win Community-University Engagement Support Funds
Congratulations to Department of Family Practice research faculty Dr. Farah Shroff and Dr. Mei-ling Wiedmeyer on winning Community-University Engagement Support Funds from the UBC Community Engagement Office. Learn more about their projects in the announcement.
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Local access to abortion services expanded with mifepristone in community pharmacies, Canadian study finds
The authors, including DFP’s Dr. Wendy Norman, note that the expansion of mifepristone to community pharmacies shifted the delivery of abortions from procedural abortions to more accessible mifepristone abortions, a trend they expect to continue.
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Embedding Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Primary Care Practice: A Reflection on a Resident-Participant’s Experience of the “Travelling The River Towards a Skookum Surrey” Canoe Journey Project
Dr. Ruvini Amarasekera, graduating resident physician at the UBC St. Paul’s Family Medicine program Honouring Indigenous ways of knowing has only recently been acknowledged as an important part of cultural sensitivity in primary care. However, as residents preparing to practice medicine on unceded Indigenous land in British Columbia, honouring and respecting Indigenous ways of knowing…
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Spotlight: Dr. Farah Shroff’s Contributions to Gender Equity Research and Education
Dr. Farah Shroff is a Harvard-educated Canadian public health leader and the visionary founder of Health Together (formerly known as Maternal and Infant Health Canada). Through her work, she has tackled critical challenges affecting young ones, the environment and those who identify as women. Health Together is a global public health organization dedicated to improving…