Canadian Medical Association award given to Vivian Tsang
GHRP employee and 4th year medical student, Vivian Tsang, received the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) Award for Young Leaders (Student) in December 2020. Vivian has worked with our GHRP team both locally during the pandemic and internationally in South Africa. Dr. Yassi spoke about Vivian’s accomplishments in a video which can be accessed at https://www.cma.ca/cma-award-young-leaders-student-2020-recipient-vivian-tsang
The GHRP is helping with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
In August 2014, WHO called upon its collaborative centers to contribute to the emergency response to the Ebola outbreak. Three GHRP team members were deployed to the WHO headquarters in Geneva on October 20th and 21st in order to help strategize the Ebola response. The GHRP has been involved in four tasks pertaining to the […]
GHRP Associate Jaime Breilh at UBC as Peter Wall Institute International Research Scholar
Jaime Breilh, Professor and Director of the Health Sciences at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador), Founder & Executive Director, Centro de Estudios y Asesoría en Salud (Ecuador), and President Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine (Ecuador), is visiting Vancouver, April 2014. Dr. Breilh will present at 2 different events: APRIL 28, 2014 at the International Research […]
Dr. Yassi presents at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
A large-scale survey of South African healthcare workers has revealed major gaps in workplace protection against tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis, according to a University of British Columbia health researcher. Presenting findings February 14 at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dr. Annalee Yassi says issues such as […]
Dr. Jerry Spiegel won Cortlandt J.G. Mackenzie Teaching Prize
Dr. Spiegel received the 2013 CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the School of Population and Public Health. Click here for more details!
Our Dengue Prevention project is nearing completion
Dr. Spiegel recently travelled to Ecuador to participate in workshops and assist in survey work for the final phase of the “Meeting capacity-building and scaling-up challenges to sustainably prevent and control dengue in Machala, Ecuador” project, which is funded by the WHO’s Tropical Disease Research Program (TDR) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Kendra […]
Health of the Healthcare workers project | South Africa
PhD student Lyndsay O’Hara (pictured right) just returned from the International Union for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease World Conference in Paris. Lyndsay attended a pre-conference course run by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on TB Modelling and participated in the five-day scientific programme, which presented the latest developments in the related fights […]
The GHRP contributed a piece to the GOHNET Newsletter
The Global Health Research Program contributed a piece to the Global Occupational Health Network (GOHNET) newsletter titled: Promoting health equity by addressing the needs of health workers: a collaborative international initiative. You can view the Newsletter here. Look on page 14 for the GHRP article!
April 2013: The Ethics of Ethics Reviews in Global Health Research: Case studies applying a new paradigm.
2013 Yassi A, Breilh J, Dharamsi S, Lockhart K, Spiegel JM. The Ethics of Ethics Reviews in Global Health Research: Case studies applying a new paradigm. Journal of Academic Ethics, 11(2), pp 83-101. Abstract With increasing calls for global health research there is growing concern regarding the ethical challenges encountered by researchers from high-income countries (HICs) working in […]
OHASIS helps reduce the spread of infectious disease in health care settings
Dr. Annalee Yassi discusses OHASIS, a computer program that is helping reduce the spread of infectious disease in health care settings.