Events
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June 2025 Rounds | Dr. Ilona Hale
Date: Wednesday 18 June 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeBringing Environmental Sustainability to Research
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May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar
Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeHousing Is Healthcare: Equity In Access For All Residents
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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…
News and Announcements
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Developing a Capacity Estimator (CapEs) to Support Canadian Primary Care Planning in a Time of Crisis
Elka Humphrys and Morgan Price of the UBC Innovation Support Unit share their recent research project “Primary Care Teams Capacity Estimator”. This study’s goal was to estimate how clinical capacity changes when different healthcare providers are embedded in primary care teams. In this study, the team completed 7 modified Delphi sub-studies to co-develop evidence about…
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Green Healthcare – Collective Wellbeing for People and Planet
Drs. Farah Shroff (UBC DFP) and Lumas Joseph Helaire (Harvard Chan School of Public Health) BackgroundAs global climate change accelerates, the crisis of species survival invites holistic ways of knowing. There is a resurgence of engagement in Indigenous spiritual wellbeing systems as part of anti-colonial liberation movements. Green collective wellbeing systems (GreenCoWell) offer opportunities to…
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In Memoriam: Dr. Jack Taunton
On behalf of the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Family Practice and the Section of Sports and Exercise Medicine, it is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Jack Taunton, professor emeritus, physician, researcher and beloved colleague. His loss leaves a big hole in our sport and exercise medicine community, not…
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Spotlight: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin’s Insights on Prison Reform
In a recent interview featured on Medics Voices, Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin, Clinical Professor Emerita at DFP, shared her compelling journey as an advocate for the rights of incarcerated people. Through participatory health research and writing on the intersections of health, justice, and policy, she passionately discussed the need for change in the prison system.…