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Bridging silos and building impact in BC’s health system

More than 130 people from diverse perspectives across British Columbia came together at a cross-sector dialogue in January to discuss how we can better bridge healthcare silos and heighten the impact of our collective efforts to improve BC’s health system. Weaving the Threads: Bridging Silos,...

  • Health Systems
  • Partnerships

Introducing the 3rd Health After 2020 cohort: transforming health through knowledge translation and community engagement

UBC Health is pleased to announce that eight interdisciplinary, cross-institutional research projects have been accepted into the Health After 2020 program for 2023/24. Health After 2020 supports researchers to engage in collaborations that aim to create change in health and health-producing...

  • Awards + Scholarships
  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Partnerships
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Students together learning with, about, and from each other

After three years of online interprofessional learning due to the pandemic, UBC Health is celebrating the successful return to in-person delivery of the Integrated Curriculum. Interprofessional education occurs when two or more professions learn with, about, and from each other to enable effective...

  • Collaborative Health Education
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Weaving the threads: Holding space for dialogue to bridge the silos better in BC’s health system

UBC Health is set to host a dialogue-based event in the new year on BC healthcare silos and collaboration. The virtual event, Weaving the Threads: Bridging Silos, Building Impact , will bring together people from diverse perspectives to discuss how we can better bridge healthcare silos across roles...

  • Health Systems
  • Partnerships
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Taking a local health education program international

What began as a scholarly visit to UBC Health by a professor from Brazil has led to an international collaboration that created a health education program based on UBC’s model. Last year, Dr. Maria Antonieta Araújo, a professor with the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health (BAHIANA) in...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Partnerships

Michelle Hamilton joins UBC Health as Education Program Manager

UBC Health is pleased to announce that Michelle Hamilton has joined the team as Education Program Manager. Michelle will work closely with leadership to operationalize UBC Health’s strategic collaborative health education initiatives and will lead the delivery of complex interprofessional education...

  • Collaborative Health Education
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Doctoral students committed to health equity part of new UBC Health program

How can a PhD student change the world for the better? Doctoral students undertaking innovative health equity-oriented research in surprising and unexpected places across the university are part of a new UBC Health-funded research program, launched in partnership with the Public Scholars Initiative...

  • Interdisciplinary Research
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Health summit reports published by theme

UBC Health is pleased to share three theme-oriented reports from the Breathe and Weave: Talking Across Silos to Enable Health System Improvement health summit, an intersectoral dialogue about health and healthcare in British Columbia held earlier this year. The summit brought together people from...

  • Health Systems
  • Partnerships
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Connecting people, ideas, and actions

The Office of the Vice-President, Health is proud to share UBC Health Strategic Plan in Action: Year 2 , highlighting the work that UBC Health has undertaken over the past academic year to advance the strategic objectives articulated in the inaugural UBC Health strategic plan, Better Health...

  • Awards + Scholarships
  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Health Systems
  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Partnerships
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Empowering patient voices in health professional education

When the patient is acknowledged as a key partner and decision-maker in health, healthcare works better for everyone. And that starts with educating our health professional students about patient-centred care. Last year, more than 1,800 students across 12 health programs at UBC benefited by...

  • Collaborative Health Education

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