Friedman Award for Scholars in Health

The Friedman Award for Scholars in Health is open to any UBC graduate student or medical resident studying in the area of health. ‘Health’ is interpreted very broadly, and includes health promotion and disease prevention, mental health research, laboratory sciences related to medicine or health, public health, health services research, or any area intended to impact human health.  Applicants do not need to be studying in a health-related degree to be eligible to apply.

Awards of up to $50,000 each will be granted for 6 to 12 months of study outside of Western Canada.  Friedman Scholars are expected to travel to other areas of Canada and the world to seek new perspectives, initiate new collaborations with experts in their fields and be exposed to different cultures.  The award amount will be at the discretion of the adjudication committee.

Submitted by applicant – SUBMIT APPLICATION HERE

Application Deadline: 10 March 2023 at 4:00 pm PT

For further information about this award opportunity, including eligibility requirements and application procedures, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/friedman-award-scholars-health.

Information Session: Friedman Award for Scholars in Health

Date: Thursday, December 15
Time: 10:00 to 11:00 am
Format: Zoom
Note: Registration closes at 12 noon PT on December 14.

To register: REGISTER HERE

Get your flu shot this fall

As influenza (flu) season approaches, protect yourself by taking the flu vaccine.

Student Health Service offers a range of health assessments and treatments provided by doctors, nurse practitioners, and nurses. Appointments are available to students in British Columbia by phone, video, or in person.

(https://students.ubc.ca/health/student-health-service)

More details about flu shots could be found here:
https://students.ubc.ca/health/health-topics/flu-colds

If you are outside BC, you could find free wellbeing support specific to your needs here: https://students.ubc.ca/health/finding-health-support

For details on vaccination in BC, please see here: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/managing-your-health/immunizations/flu

Good morning,

 

We are emailing as a reminder that abstract submissions for Crossroads 2023 will close on January 6, 2023. Conference registration will open on January 3, 2023. We are asking for your assistance to spread the word. Could you please forward the following information to student researchers (undergraduate, graduate, or post-doctoral) in your department?

 

The 19th Annual Crossroads Interdisciplinary Health Research Conference is happening on March 10-11, 2023 at the Halifax Central Library and Dalhousie University’s Collaborative Health Education Building (CHEB) in Halifax, NS. Crossroads is a student-led health research conference hosted by the School of Health and Human Performance Graduate Student Society. Over the course of the conference, two panel discussions will be held, covering the digitalization of health and breaking down systemic barriers for marginalized populations. There will also be the opportunity to participate in one of two interactive workshops on photovoice/photo elicitation research methods and trauma awareness. On the second day of the conference, students will have the opportunity to present their research in either an oral or poster format.

 

We will be accepting abstracts for poster and oral presentations from students working on any health-related project, at any stage (e.g., proposal, preliminary analysis, completed), and affiliated with any department (e.g., health professions, business, engineering, social sciences, etc.). Registration for the conference will open on January 3, 2023 and abstract submissions will close on January 6, 2023. For more information, or to submit an abstract, please visit our website: https://dalcrossroads.com/call-for-abstracts/submit-an-abstract/

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Crossroads 2023 Co-chairs, Joshua Yusuf and Michaela Title, at dalcrossroads@dal.ca.

 

Sincerely,

 

Michelle

 

Michelle Lincoln (She/Her), Promotions and Communications, Lead

Crossroads Planning Committee
Dalhousie University
Stairs House, 6230 South Street
PO Box 15000 Halifax NS, B3H 4R2
dalcrossroads@dal.ca
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Dalhousie University is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. We are all Treaty people.
We acknowledge the histories, contributions, and legacies of the African Nova Scotian people and communities who have been here for over 400 years.

GradUpdate In this issue, Educative Approaches to Academic Integrity, Skills, practices and tools for Knowledge Exchange and Mobilization, Graduate Instructional Skills workshops, and more. Seats available Doctoral defence: doctoral examination and defence procedures Online | Tuesday, Dec 6 | 2 – 3:15 pm Register Reproducible research part IV: building Shiny applications and dashboards Online | Thursday, Dec 8 | 10 am – 12 pm Register Events and Opportunities A selection of upcoming events are highlighted below.  Visit  community.grad.ubc.ca and grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-development for our full events calendar. ACADEMIC Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund Stream 3 Student Proposals In-person brainstorm & writing session | Tuesday, Dec 13 | 11 am – 12 pm Register Using Zotero for Citation Management Online | Monday, Dec 12 | 9 – 10:30 am Register CAREER Project Assistant, Digital – UBC Sauder 16-20 hr/wk | 6 months or more | $30/hr | Apply by Dec 13 Help to bring Indigenous content and perspectives into the curriculum, as well as to develop faculty training modules. Learn more WorkBC In-Person Drop-in Career Advising In-person drop-in @alumni centre | Wednesday, Dec 14 | 1 – 3 pm Learn more RESEARCH Introduction to the Unix Shell Online | Wednesday, Dec 14 | 10 – 11:30 am Register TEACHING Educative Approaches to Academic Integrity Online panel session | Monday, Dec 12 | 11 am – 12 pm Register Graduate Instructional Skills Workshops In-person | January 22, 28 & 29 | 8 am – 5 pm Apply by Jan 18. Online | January 23, 28, 29 & Feb 4 | various times Apply by Jan 18. Learn more about all upcoming Instructional Skills Workshops. WRITING AND COMMUNICATION Research to Impact: Skills, practices and tools for Knowledge Exchange and Mobilization Online | Feb 3 – Apr 6 | Fridays, 1 – 2:30 pm | The following topics will be covered: What KxM is and why it matters Mapping stakeholders and partnering in KxM Partnering with equity deserving populations Partnering with Indigenous communities Policy communication Targeted dissemination KxM models and frameworks Writing your KxM grant Learn more and register by Jan 16 Workshops and events Services Resources  SEND TO A FRIEND   WEBSITE

Land and Food System Scholar Series

 

Invited scholar: Dr. J. Bruce German

 

Hosted by:  Siyun Wang, Food Science

 

Title: Lactation: An evolutionary model for diet and health research.

 

Abstract: The world is facing unprecedented challenges to produce a food supply that is both nourishing, safe and sustainable. Scientists are struggling to understand how to guide the future of agriculture and food in response to these 21st century challenges.  Lactation provides an inspiring model of what research and its applications could be. Lactation emerged through evolution under the relentless selective pressure to be a sustainable bioreactor secreting biopolymers with diverse functions acting from the mammary gland through the digestive system of the infant. Scientific understanding of milk yields targets of efficacy: what are the mechanisms by which diet can improve the protection, performance and success of infants; with an impeccable safety dosser: milk is all that babies eat! As just one example, milk contains free oligosaccharides. These glycans reach the lower intestine where bacteria compete. One specific strain of bacteria, Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis, is capable of taking up, hydrolyzing and metabolizing the complex glycans of human milk. Such a symbiotic relationships provides value to both the microbe and the infant: the microbe gains a food supply and the infant gains protection from pathogens.

 

Biography: Dr. J. Bruce German is a Distinguished Professor in Food Science and Technology, Director, Foods for Health Institute, University of California Davis (http://ffhi.ucdavis.edu/). Bruce German received his BSc and MSc from University of Western Ontario, his PhD from Cornell University, joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis in 1988, in 1997 was named the first John E. Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition and Health is currently Director of the Foods for Health Institute and professor, at University of California, Davis. The goal of his research, teaching and outreach is to build the knowledge necessary to improve human health through personal health measurements and diet. The model being used of how to proceed is lactation, the product of millennia of constant Darwinian selective pressure to produce a food to nourish, sustain and promote healthy infant mammals to be healthier http://www.imgconsortium.org/ . This evolutionary logic is the basis of the research program to discover molecular, physical, functional and nutritional properties of milk components and to apply these properties as principles to foods. Bruce and colleagues have published more than 500 papers that have been cited over 50,000 times.  Together with colleagues and the University of California the research program has launched 4 companies providing products and services to the commercial marketplace.

 

 

Join in-person or via Zoom:

Date: December 8, 2022

Time: 10:00-11:30 AM PST

Location: In-person at SPPH B151, or via Zoom

This presentation will be followed by a meet and greet from 11:30-12:00.

Please register here by Dec 6.