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The WHRI is collaborating with the Clinical Research Support Unit at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute to evaluate a process that combines AI translation with structured human review for research documents – and you can help.
This May, the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) formalized our commitment to Trauma and Resiliency-informed Practices (TRiP) with a new offering: TRiP Training for Researchers and Evaluators. This work was facilitated by long-time WHRI partner BC Pomeroy and WHRI Qualitative Research Analyst Julia Santana Parrilla.
The 11th annual Women’s Health Research Symposium highlighted two decades of progress in women’s health research and served as an excellent kickoff to Women’s Health Research Month.
WHRI’s Qualitative Research Analyst, Julia Santana Parrilla, and Heather McCain—member of the Beyond the Binary Community Task Force and Founder & Executive Director of Live Educate Transform Society (LET’S)—were recently featured on Leader Talks, where they reflect on their work with BTB and the importance of centering diverse gender experiences in research.
Congratulations to the recipients of the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) 2026 Partnering for Impact catalyst grants, and Health System Impact Fellows!
Dr. Elizabeth Nethery and Dr. Laura Schummers published a paper in JAMA Health Forum looking at the economic benefit of BC’s Universal Contraceptive Coverage plan.
