UBC SPPH
2206 East Mall V6T 1Z3 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Upcoming Event! SPPH Global Health ‘Coffee and Learn' Date: Wednesday, November 25th Time: 8 AM 9 AM (PT)... Join us for Part One of our Mini-series: Adapting research, field work, and collaborations under COVID-19. Learn how ASPIRE (Advances in Screening and Prevention in Reproductive Cancers) has adapted their program during the pandemic. Presenters: Dr. Carolyn Nakisige, Uganda Cancer Institute and Dr. Beth Payne, UBC. Free Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/spph-global-health-coffee-learn

SPPH faculty members Drs. Trevor Dummer and Parveen Bhatti are helping to lead a national #COVID19 seroprevalence study with CanPath - Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health. The study is receiving an investment of $1.9 million through Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. Read more: https://www.spph.ubc.ca/spph-faculty-members-to-help-lead-/

Join us Thursday morning at 10:30am for the next Voices in Health webinar! Our speaker, Dr. Asinath Rusibamayila, is a global health professional and recent graduate of Harvard University School of Public Health. She will be talking about her research that focuses on understanding how ‘context’ and ‘nature of challenges’ intersect with leadership and development for senior health system leaders in Africa. All are welcome and the event is free. More information and the Zoom link can be found here:https://www.spph.ubc.ca/spph-voices-in-health/

Hand hygiene for #COVID2019 a tough sell? Suggesting people sneeze into a tissue or sleeve requires soul! Check out the musical PSA in the link below by Dr. David Patrick SPPH Professor and Director of Research at BCCDC https://chirb.it/xE0DDL ... Credits For the Attached: Performed by The Dynamics - Vancouver R&B band Recorded by Bryan Wilson at Macarthur Park studio Produced by The Dynamics Written by Dr. David Patrick

Congratulations to Dr. Annalee Yassi, who was recognized by the Vancouver Medical, Dental and Allied Staff Association and Vancouver Physician Staff Association with a medal for her exceptional contributions to the medical community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We spoke to Dr. Yassi about the project she and her team have been working on to provide occupational health resources to medical staff throughout the pandemic: https://www.spph.ubc.ca/yassi-covid-19-serving-front-line-/

Don't miss this feature in UBC Faculty of Medicine's Pathways Magazine, profiling our wonderful faculty who are working at the BC Centre for Disease Control on the province's COVID-19 response. https://www.facebook.com//a.58498063819/3638364379527382/

Don't miss the next OEH Seminar this Friday, September 11! Dr. Brauer will be presenting his findings: Global projections of potential lives saved from COVID-19 through universal mask use More information and the Zoom link here: https://www.spph.ubc.ca/oeh-seminars/

Interested in health? Join us Wed, Sept 16 from 12-1pm for the first global health event of the year. Meet like-minded students and faculty and help shape our activities for the 2020/21 academic year. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/32Iqzjv #ubcspph #globalhealth

COVID-19 has changed what back-to-school looks like for our learners this school year. What hasn’t changed is that their time at #UBC Faculty of Medicine will be excellent, enriching and incredibly rewarding. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3hz3RRf

New story on the website! We talked to two of the province's Medical Health Officers and SPPH faculty about #COVID19, who is able to receive and follow public health advice, and the consequences on community spread when we don’t support those facing social and economic barriers to adherence. https://www.spph.ubc.ca/social-determinants-public-health-/

A great opportunity for students, staff, residents, and faculty members of UBC Faculty of Medicine, from all sites. Our own Dr. Farah Shroff is hosting a series of webinars on #wellbeing, free to attend for the Faculty of Medicine community. More information in the poster:

We talked to SPPH ethicist Dr. Anita Ho about big data, artificial intelligence, passive surveillance in health and the implications for contact tracing apps. Read the story: https://www.spph.ubc.ca/big-data-artificial-intelligence-a/

Along with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the BC Academic Health Science Network, we invite you to participate in a two-day BC COVID-19 Collaboration and Research Symposium on September 1-2. The symposium will bring together health, education, social sciences and humanities researchers and other key stakeholders focused on the impacts of COVID-19 and its associated public health measures on populations, public health, health services and other sectors throughout BC. For more info and registration details, please visit: http://at.sfu.ca/rDnZfO

New story from us - we talked to faculty and graduate students about the social and economic factors known as the Social Determinants of Health that contribute to COVID-19's unequal distribution within society: https://www.spph.ubc.ca/social-and-economic-inequities/

Happy Graduation Day! Check out Dr. Berman's congratulatory message to graduates. #spphgrad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz59ynkQkNM

Have you registered yet? The next event in our Voices in Health Speaker Series is coming up! Please join us in conversation with Dr. Shannon Waters on February 13th, from 4-6pm. Follow along online or in person: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/voices-in-health-indigenous-sov

Come join us at Monthly SPPH Grand Rounds! Upcoming seminar will feature Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes and her research on Injectiveble opioid agonist treatment. Feb 7th 12:00pm at SPPH B151 or Webinar via YouTube is also available!... [All faculties and students are strongly encouraged to attend as part of the ongoing conversation about current issues in Population and Public Health] For more information about GrandRounds https://lnkd.in/dF7NDdQ #healthcare #health #publichealth #research #opioid #population #seminar #information #webinar #SPPH

MHA Graduates are innovative thinkers and natural leaders, with an eye toward the future of health care. Click the link below to see how MHA helped Major Heath R.'s career in Canadian Forces https://lnkd.in/egbF45g ... #heath #futureofhealth #mha #healthcare #SPPH #UBC #mhalumni #SPPHAlumni #CanadianForce #PrimaryCare

Join us on March 5-6 for CHSPR's 32nd annual health policy conference, "Private Parts? Finding the Balance of Public and Private in Health Care." CHSPR’s longstanding conference promotes discussion between policy-makers, academics, providers, patients and national organizations on timely issues shaping health systems in Canada. The focus of the 2020 conference is the role of the private sector in financing heath care, which has been the subject of longstanding and intense d...ebate in Canada. We will delve into the evidence under these debates. What evidence do we have on private financing? What remains to be known? What balance do other countries strike in these decisions? We invite you to join us for two days of distinguished speakers, informed discussion, and networking opportunities on this critically important aspect of Canadian health care. Register online by Feb 7th for early bird tickets! http://chspr.ubc.ca/conference/registration/ For a list of confirmed speakers, visit: http://chspr.ubc.ca/conference/

Tomorrow is our SPPH Fall Graduation Reception! We are excited to celebrate with our 56 SPPH Graduates and their family & friends. #SPPHGrad2019 #MHAGrad2019 #UBC #UBCGraduates #UBCGraduation #SPPH https://bit.ly/2DqZw0c

7 Days until our SPPH Fall Graduation Reception at Sage! If you forgot to RSVP and would like to attend, please email your SPPH graduate program contacts. #SPPHGrad2019 #MHAGrad2019 #UBCGraduation https://bit.ly/2rhberd