Events, News & Resources

Tuesday, Oct. 15 (12 noon - 3 p.m. PST)

• Location: Online via Zoom
• Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BjdhvqhxR-y70MaPs-z2mw
• Presentations:
  • Welcome! Words of Wisdom from Bonnie Coble, Westbank First Nations Elder, and Opening Remarks from Deanne Taylor, Corporate Director, Research, IH.
  • Engaging in the Development of a Rural Clinical Trial Program (4th Year Bachelor of Science in Nursing Students)
  • Long COVID care in a virtual based community setting: My experiences utilizing a Learning Health Systems Approach for Community Engagement (Danielle Wittal, RTT, MSc, Research Coordinator, Research, IH)
  • Doing Research with Interior Health (Kathleen Scullion, PhD, CHIM Practice Lead, Research, IH)
  • Interior Health Publications Hub (IH PubHub) (Rebecca Johns, Librarian, IH)
    • Note: IH Library access is only available for IH staff
  • Moderator: Kim Barnes Peake, Research Navigation and Community Facilitation Lead, IH Research and Interior Centre

Wednesday, Oct. 16 (12 noon - 3 p.m. PST)

• Location: Online via Zoom
• Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_17ynE26_S-CHmzgfvn6H2g
• Presentations:
  • CLARITY - Community-Led Action for Resiliency (Katrina Plamondon, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan, Co-chair, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research University Advisory Council, MSFHR Scholar 2020-2025).
  • Mental Health Conversations (Adriane Peak, Research Assistant, School of Nursing Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan)
  • Population Health and Aging Rural Research (PHARR) Centre: Improving the health equity of rural older adults (Juanita-Dawne Bacsu, PhD, Canada Research Chair Tier II in Nursing and Population Health, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, TRU)
  • Unravelling the Mysteries of Alzheimer’s: New Insights and Promising Treatments (Khaled Abdelrahman, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC)
• Moderator: Kim Barnes Peake, Research Navigation and Community Facilitation Lead, IH Research and Interior Centre

Coming Spring 2025!

Health Metadata Commons (Morning) 

Friday, Oct. 18 (10:30 - 11:30 a.m.)

Attn: Physicians, Researchers, Academics, and Students

• Location: In-person at UBC-O, Administration Building, 1st Floor (Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation - VPRI), Room: ADM 006A, in partnership with UBC Okanagan
• Registration: IH Research Week 2024 Welcomes You to Join The Health Metadata Commons Tickets, Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 10:30 AM | Eventbrite
• Presentation: In this presentation, Zsuzsa and Annaïck will delve into some of the data science efforts taking place at Genome BC. One such work is the creation of a Health Metadata Commons, an inventory of omics datasets, biological samples, and medical imagesavailable in the community, www.metadatacommons.ca. (Zsuzsanna Hollander, PhD, Director of Data Science Genome BC and Annaïck Carles, MSc, Research and Innovation Manager, Data Science)

Mental Health and Psychedelics Café Scientifique (evening)

Friday, Oct. 18 (6 - 8 p.m. PST)

Attn: Everyone!

Location: In-person event happening at the Kelowna Art Gallery, in partnership with UBC Okanagan Institute for Health Living and Chronic Disease Prevention. Light refreshments to be provided.

• Registration: Mental health and psychedelics Tickets, Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
• Closing Reflections and Prayer from Bonnie Coble, Westbank First Nations Elder
• Presentation: Mental Health and Psychedelics Café Scientifique with Panel Experts (Laura C - Person with Lived Experience, Francois Louw, MD, EntheoMed, Terra Belliveau, BsN, RN(C), and Zach Walsh, PhD, Professor, Psychology, Irving K Barber Faculty of Science, UBC Okanagan,)
• Moderator: Jordyn Cates, Masters student, Psychology, Irving K Barber Faculty of Science, UBC Okanagan

• Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) - Canada's federal funding agency for health research. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR collaborates with partners and researchers to support the discoveries and innovations that improve our health and strengthen our health-care system.

• Interior Health Foundations - Interior Health's foundations are the public face of our hospitals and health-care centres. Each foundation is made up of a board of respected community leaders, volunteers, and a professional staff of fundraisers and support services.

• Michael Smith Health Research BC - B.C.’s health research funding agency. Funding programs are designed to attract, develop and retain B.C.’s health research talent and contribute to addressing B.C. health system priorities.

• BC Data Scout – an online tool that gives health researchers a general idea about how many people in B.C. meet specific health characteristics or criteria. It offers a quick way of discovering if there’s enough information about people with certain health characteristics to support a research study, using just a single point of access.
• Interior Health Library Services – a resource that connects physicians and IH staff to information. See the link for a full list of services.
• REACH BC - an online platform that aims to improve how British Columbians can connect with opportunities to volunteer in health research
• REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) - a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. Access to REDCap can be requested free of charge if the work is patient oriented.

• Michael Smith Health Research BC – patient oriented research training opportunities for patient partners and researchers
• San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety Training - San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) Training is a unique, online training program designed to enhance self-awareness, and strengthen the skills of those who work both directly and indirectly with Indigenous people. Anyone is eligible to take the training (see the FAQs to find out who is eligible to take the course at no cost)
• TCPS 2: CORE Tutorial (Course on Research Ethics) - The purpose of TCPS 2: CORE is to provide an introduction to TCPS 2, primarily for researchers and, secondarily, for Research Ethics Board members. All researchers who intend to engage in research with human participants should take the course.

Interior Health's Research Data Management Institutional strategy recognizes the importance of data as a research output and outlines how Interior Health will provide our researchers with an environment that enables and supports research data management, in fulfillment of the Canadian Tri-Agencies (NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR) Tri-Agency Research Data Management (RDM) Policy requirements. This document is a road map to build research capacity by making research data more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable over a multi-year horizon.