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Since 2003, the Cedar Project study has examined connections between ongoing colonial impacts of residential schools and child welfare on HIV and hepatitis C among young Indigenous people who use drugs in British Columbia. It is a community-driven cohort involving 800 participants in Vancouver and Prince George, on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Lheidli T’enneh peoples. As Cedar participants represent many of the diverse Indigenous communities and nations across BC and

Last month, we had the chance to sit down with Dr. Helen Burt, Associate Vice-President Research and Innovation (AVPRI) in the Office of the VPRI. From starting in pharmaceutical research, to supporting 15 different research portfolio units, Dr. Burt has always approached research collaboratively and boldly. We’re so excited to share her thoughts with you. Thanks so much for sitting down with us! Can you tell us about your career path to UBC? I was born and grew up in Manchester, England. My

This month, we sat down with Candace Cook, a research scientist at RES’EAU WaterNET. The RES’EAU WaterNET is an NSERC-funded program which aims to achieve breakthroughs in engineering, chemistry, genomics and social sciences in small water systems. RES’EAU focuses on water research and strategic approaches that can be applied to water health monitoring and treatment technology development, as well as novel approaches to treating water for microbial and chemical contamination, algal toxins and

Welcome to IRSI’s very first blog post. We’re so excited to have spoken with Dr. Helen Brown and Kelsey Timler, from the Critical Research in Health and Healthcare Inequities (CRiHHI) research unit within the School of Nursing here on campus. Which of your current research projects has you really excited right now? Why? All of our current projects are exciting and inspiring, yet each in different ways. Some projects have been underway for over 10 years, such as our Sanala Research with the