Conference Travel Bursary
Research Support Award
Collaborative Team Award
Working Group Initiative Award
Conference Travel Bursary
| Name | Presentation Title | Conference |
| 2009 | ||
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Heather Castleden |
Declared Extinct: Perceptions of Aboriginal palliative care in British Columbia's West Kootenay-Boundary Region |
Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting - Ottawa, Ontario |
|
Alan Davidson |
Stealth Privatization of Health and Social Care for the Elderly in British Columbia, Canada |
BC Political Studies Associate Annual General Conference - Kamloops, Canada |
|
Lee Anne Deegan |
Health practices of the homeless: Perspectives from two northern remote shelters in BC |
Growing Home: Housing and Homelessness in Canada - Calgary, Canada |
|
Laurie Goldsmith |
Key organizational and delivery features of community health centres in British Columbia |
Annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research - Calgary, Alberta |
|
Dawn Hemingway |
Women North Network: Innovation in Building Health Northern Communities |
International Technology, Education and Development Conference - Valencia, Spain |
|
LeeAnna Huisman |
Exploring the impact of long qt syndrome in a BC First Nation community |
International Congress on Circumpolar Health - Yellowknife, North West Territories |
|
Nancy Humber |
Rural patients' experiences accessing surgical services |
9th Annual World Rural Health Conference, WONKA - Crete, Greece |
|
Jianbing Li |
Decision Analysis for the Remediation of Petroleum-contaminated Sites: a Fuzzy Multi-criteria Approach |
2009 International Symposium of Environmental Sciences and Technology - Shanghai, China |
|
Candice Manahan |
Who works in Northern BC? |
Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association - Montreal, Quebec |
|
Jessica Place |
Finding my own time: Examining the spatially produced experiances of rural RNs in the Rural Acute Care Nursing Program |
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting - Las Vegas, USA |
|
Robin Roots |
Interprofessional Rural Placements |
Collaborating Across Borders Conference - Halifax, Nova Scotia |
|
Lana Trey |
Supporting healthy aging through information/digital technologies |
19th World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics - Paris, France |
| 2008 | ||
| Shira Goldenberg | Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Testing among Young Oil and Gas Workers | CDC 2008 National STD Prevention - Chicago, USA |
| Francis Guenette | Working with Marginalized Clients | Cannexus 2008: National Career Development - Montreal, QC |
| Kathy L. Rush | Place and Older Adults Perceptions of Weakness in Their Daily Lives | Caring for People - Victoria, BC |
| Kathryn Proudfoot | BCRRHRN Inaugural Conference - Prince George, BC | |
| Meg Kapil | Person, Place and Perception: Supporting Rural Youth in Life-Career Transitions | BCRRHRN Inaugural Conference - Prince George, BC |
| Francisco Grajales |
Genomic marker dissimilarities in the PCK1 promoter region as the link to Type II Diabetes in Ojibiwa Cree Natives | BCRRHRN Inaugural Conference - Prince George, BC |
| Marion Pearson | Rural job selection by UBC pharmacy graduates | BCRRHRN Inaugural Conference - Prince George, BC |
| Jonathon Cinnamon | Using GIS to determine access to palliative care services in rural and remote areas | Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting - Quebec City |
| James Chan | Facilitating Knowledge Exchange for enhanced health services research capacity in 2 rural regional health authorities | Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research Conference - Gatineau, Quebec |
| Jennifer Miller | Facilitating Knowledge Exchange for enhanced health services research capacity in 2 rural regional health authorities | Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research Conference - Gatineau, Quebec |
| Katherine Wisener | Community learning centres | Community-University Exposition, UVic, BC |
| Elizabeth Stacey | Ktunaxa Community Learning Centres | BCRRHRN Inaugural Conference - Prince George, BC |
| Paulos Teckle | BCRRHRN Inaugural Conference - Prince George, BC | |
| Melanie Gorman | Fertilizer Exposure, Respiratory and Dermal Health in BC Tree Planters | CARWH-RRSTQ Conference 2008 - Montreal, QC |
| Cathy Kavanagh | Does Size Matter? Can best practice guidelines established in urban settings be utilized sucessfully in rural areas of BC, Canada? | 6th International Conference on early psychosis - Melbourne, Australia |
| Sandra Jarvis-Selinger | Ktunaxa Community Learning Centres | Northern Health and Learning Symposium - Whitehorse, Yukon |
| Davina Banner | Developing a research strategy for Care North: Strategic directions and progress | Knowledge Synthesis, Translation and Exchange in Action - Kelowna, BC |
| Francisco Grajales | Medicine 2.0 Conference, Toronto, ON | |
| Robin LeDrew | The Burdens Women Bear | BCASW Fall Conference, Vancouver, BC |
| Travis Holyk | World Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education 2008 - Melbourne, Australia | |
Research Support Award
| Name | Affiliation | Course |
| 2009 | ||
|
Emily Campbell |
Simon Fraser University |
Knowledge for Change, Summer Institute with the National Collaborating Centre for Public Health |
|
Heather Castleden |
University of Victoria |
National Summer Institute and Statistical and GIS Analysis of Health Data |
|
Autumn Chilcote |
University of Northern British Columbia |
International Perspectives in Participatory Research |
|
Sarah Munro |
University of British Columbia |
9th Annual Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Conference |
|
Jennifer Reade |
University of British Columbia |
9th Annual Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Conference |
|
Linda Vrbova |
University of British Columbia |
Geographic Epidemiology at the University of Guelph |
|
Joy Walcott-Francis |
Simon Fraser University |
9th Annual Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Conference |
| 2008 | ||
|
Heather Castleden |
University of Victoria |
Humanizing Health Care |
|
Janis Shandro |
University of British Columbia |
Qualitative Health Research Conference |
Collaborative Team Award
| Principal Investigator | Team Name |
| August 2009 | |
| Dr. Mariana Brussoni | Multidisciplinary Team Development to Investigate Rural and Urban Fathers’ Injury Prevention Attitudes and Practices |
| Drs. Stirling Bryan, Ramin Mehin, Susann Camus |
Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) Research Team |
| Dr. Judy Illes | Alzheimer Disease in Remote First Nations Communities: Nurturing Knowledge, Understanding, Education, and Care |
| Dr. Jude Kornelson | The Emergence of the Infectious Disease Cryptococcal Meningitis in Rural Environments on the West Coast of B.C. |
| Drs. Karen MacKinnon and Joan MacNeil | North Island Rural Health Services Research Team |
| Dr. Heather Stewart | Impacts of Climate Change on Older Adults Living in Rural and Remote British Columbia |
|
January 2009 |
|
|
Dr. Davina Banner |
Uncovering the experiences of individuals living with persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation in rural and remote British Columbia |
|
Joanna Pierce and Dr. Alex Michalos |
Improving Primary Health Care for Frail Seniors in Northern British Columbia: Measuring Access |
|
Dr. Pamela Ponic |
Participatory Action Research with Vulnerable Women: Ethical Knowledge Translation in Rural Communities |
|
Dr. Colleen Reid |
The Work of Intersectionality: The impact of work on rural and remote womens' health |
|
2008 |
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|
Dr. Jean Shoveller |
Rural and Northern Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Youth Sexual Health Team |
|
Dr. Blythe Shepard |
Team Building Focus on Alcohol Use and Pregnancy in Rural and Remote Communities |
|
Dr. Julie Drolet |
Building Collaborative Research and Interprofessional Rural Health Capacity Initiative |
|
Drs. Jennifer Miller and Anne-Marie Broemeling |
Building knowledge translation research in Rural British Columbia for the Collaborative Team Building Award |
|
Dr. Charl Badenhorst |
The development and implementation of a rural and remote health research Network team consisting of scientifically and geographically diverse researchers and key community partners in the Northeast region of BC |
|
Drs. Valorie Crooks and Nadine Schuurman |
Siting Rural and Remote Palliative Care Services: A proposal for multidisciplinary team development for the Collaborative Team Building Award |
| 2007 | |
| Dr. Muhammad Morshed |
Study of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases in Rural and Remote areas of BC |
| Dr. Kathy Rush |
Weakness in Geriatrics Study (WinGS) |
| Dr. Carole Robinson |
Hospice palliative care in rural and remote settings |
| Dr. Lynne Baillie and Ms. Sandra Broughton |
Addressing the health literacy needs of elderly cancer patients living in rural and remote areas |
| Dr. Judith Soon |
Rural and Northern Youth Contraception Research Team |
| Mr. Bruce Wallace |
Towards a provincial task force for improving access to dental services for disadvantaged residents in BC |
Working Group Initiative Award
| Name | Affiliation | Title of Working Group |
| 2009 | ||
|
Helen Brown |
University of British Columbia |
Arts-Based Methodological Innovations in Rural and Aboriginal Health Research |
|
Jeff Masuda |
University of British Columbia |
Connecting Rural Youth with Allergies and Asthma Through Online Social Networking |
|
Mamdouh Shubair |
University of Northern British Columbia |
First Nations Health |
| 2008 | ||
|
Charl Badenhorst |
Northern Health |
Northeast Health Research Centre Group |
|
Heather Castleden |
University of Victoria |
Drinking Water and Health in Remote Queen Charlotte City BC: Assembling a Science-Social Science-CItizen Collaboration |
|
Natalie Clark |
Thompson Rivers University |
Indigenous and Racialized Girls Working Group |
|
Julie Drolet |
Thompson Rivers University |
Rural and Remote Health Working Group |
|
Mary Harber-Iles |
Thompson Rivers University |
FASD Community Assessment Group |
|
Wendy Hulko |
Thompson Rivers University |
Queer(ing) Women' s Health and Well Being in a Small City |
|
Josee Lavoie |
University of Northern British Columbia |
International Contracting for Health and Equity Working Group |
|
Dan Orcherton |
University of Northern British Columbia - FORREX |
Mountain Pine Beetle Interdisciplinary Working Group |
