Our Plan in Action

UBC Health is advancing the strategic objectives set out in Better Health Together: UBC Health 2021-2026 Strategic Plan.

Our Strategic Plan in Action: Year 1 highlights the impact of initiatives across our three core areas—collaborative health education, interdisciplinary health research, and health systems. 

Our Strategic Plan in Action: Year 2 focuses on the unique role of UBC Health and our ways of working, which are enabling us to advance the strategic objectives and outcomes we committed to in our strategic plan.

A gateway to team-based care

The Gateway to Team-Based Care will be a provincial centre for collaborative health education, interdisciplinary research, and innovation in team-based primary care. It aims to build capacity for collaborative health education to advance and accelerate the delivery of patient-centered, team-based...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Health Systems
  • Interdisciplinary Research

Talking across silos to enable health system improvements

UBC Health brought together more than 200 people from diverse roles, sectors, and regions across British Columbia at Breathe & Weave: Talking Across Silos to Enable Health System Improvement, a health summit to discuss shared priorities for improving BC’s health system and how working together...

  • Health Systems
  • Partnerships

Building knowledge in complex care

The UBC Health and the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) partnership continues to provide health professional students with training in substance use and addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to support people who use substances...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Health Systems
  • Partnerships

Facilitating interdisciplinary research beyond the expected

Through the Health After 2020 program, UBC Health supports researchers to engage in interdisciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations to undertake pioneering health-oriented research in areas of the university that stretch beyond the usual or expected. In 2022/23, UBC Health invited seven...

  • Health Systems
  • Interdisciplinary Research

Students learn value of collaborative practice

UBC Health supported the Health Student Caucus to develop and host an interprofessional health case competition, an engaging opportunity for health students to learn the value of interdisciplinary teamwork and collaborative practice. The competition brought together students from different health...

  • Collaborative Health Education

Enhancing health professional learning

For the seventh consecutive year, UBC Health delivered the Integrated Curriculum. In 2022/23, UBC Health collaborated with patients and community members to enhance student learning for 2,290 students from 15 health professional programs as part of the Curriculum. Sessions on substance use and...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Partnerships

Supporting innovation in health research

Health is produced by a complex interplay of individual, social, political, and economic factors, and interdisciplinary and cross-faculty research collaborations have the potential to lead to more innovative solutions to improve health and address health inequities. UBC Health catalyzes these...

  • Health Systems
  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Partnerships

Catalyzing interdisciplinary research to create change

The Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards enable health researchers to pursue interdisciplinary and cross-faculty initiatives that have the potential to create change. With nearly 100 applications received from across both the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses in 2021/22, the positive...

  • Health Systems
  • Interdisciplinary Research

Identifying priorities for health system improvements

Working to advocate and help develop capacity for positive change in health systems is part of UBC Health’s expanded remit. This starts with the inclusive and coordinated engagement of practitioners, communities, and policymakers interested in health. To advance the strategic objectives in this...

  • Health Systems

Integrated interprofessional learning across health professional programs

The Integrated Curriculum is a flagship program for UBC Health and a key mechanism through which programs are preparing their students for the workforce of tomorrow, which is increasingly incorporating team-based models of care. Delivered in partnership with 16 health professional programs at UBC,...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Health Systems

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