2022 Convening & Collaborating award recipients

The Convening & Collaborating (C²) Program is designed to build capacity for the development and use of research evidence in practice, policy and further research by promoting knowledge exchange between health researchers and research users.

A. Fuchsia Howard

Host institution

University of British Columbia

Project title

Building partnerships for improving chronic pelvic pain care in gynecology: A needs assessment of health professionals-in-training

Barbara Mitchell

Host institution

Simon Fraser University

Project title

The role of a culturally sensitive community-based health promotion program: Addressing resiliency and mental health for older Punjabi women in British Columbia

Bohdan Nosyk

Host institution

Simon Fraser University

Project title

Peer supports for Indigenous clients initiating opioid agonist therapy (OAT): Early concept and proposal for an experimental study

Carolyn Sparrey

Host institution

Simon Fraser University

Project title

Co-creating a research agenda for health technology innovations

Cecilia Benoit

Host institution

University of Victoria

Project title

Understanding pathways to enhance access to youth substance use services, interventions, and overdose prevention resources in Victoria, BC

David Patrick

Host institution

University of British Columbia

Project title

Tailoring antibiotic audit and feedback according to dentists' needs

Team members

Farah Mawani

Host institution

University of Victoria

Project title

Building Roads Together in BC

Frances Chen

Host institution

University of British Columbia

Project title

Acts of kindness as an antidote to social disconnection: Development and dissemination of an online intervention program to increase social engagement in BC neighbourhoods

Gina Ogilvie

Host institution

University of British Columbia

Project title

Defining a shared research agenda to improve perinatal health through digital innovation

Guy Faulkner

Host institution

University of British Columbia

Project title

Group sense making and model building for mapping systems for the promotion of population physical activity in British Columbia

Heather Gainforth

Host institution

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Project title

A partnership approach to co-developing a smoking cessation intervention for persons with spinal cord injury

Helen McTaggart-Cowan

Host institution

BC Cancer

Project title

Developing a collaborative research agenda to improve the care of patients living with metastatic breast cancer in British Columbia

Kaylee Byers

Host institution

Simon Fraser University

Project title

Navigating Long COVID: Co-creating research priorities to understand and address the information needs of unpaid care providers in British Columbia

Kiffer Card

Host institution

Simon Fraser University

Partner(s)

Mental Health Research Canada

Project title

Undertaking the co-design of climate distress services for young people in British Columbia

Liisa Galea

Host institution

University of British Columbia

Project title

Mind the gap: Hormonal contraceptives and the brain

Lillian Hung

Host institution

University of British Columbia

Project title

Bridging the knowledge-to-practice gap: Co-developing a Design Jam for building a Learning Health System at Vancouver Coastal Health

Marie Tarrant

Host institution

University of British Columbia

Project title

Improving access to breastfeeding support in interior British Columbia: A collaborative planning project

Nancy Clark

Host institution

University of Victoria

Project title

A multi sector World Cafe to promote mental health of refugees in BC: A participatory realist evaluation project

Sandy Shultz

Host institution

Vancouver Island University

Project title

A translational research network to study and improve the clinical care of brain injury in intimate partner violence (IPV) on Vancouver Island

Sarah Wiebe

Host institution

University of Victoria

Project title

A hot topic: Defining vulnerability, capturing resilience and learning lessons to support vulnerable groups adapt and respond to extreme weather in Victoria's capital regional district

Sherin Jamal

Host institution

Fraser Health

Project title

Toward inclusive and meaningful partnership of South Asian communities in Fraser Health Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Research

Team members

Travis Salway

Host institution

Simon Fraser University

Project title

The 2S/LGBTQ 'therapeutic spectrum': Establishing a BC team and research strategy to connect 2S/LGBTQ people with affirming mental health practitioners