UBC Health is pleased to announce that seven interdisciplinary, cross-institutional research projects have been accepted into the Health After 2020 program for 2022/23. 

Health After 2020 supports researchers to engage in collaborations that aim to create change in health and health-producing systems. Program participants present as part of a dialogue series that brings together university and community partners to discuss important issues related to the health and wellbeing of society. Through these dialogue sessions, UBC Health connects scholars, students, and community to advance interdisciplinary knowledge translation. The series is designed to activate and channel the health assets of the university and communities towards our collective aims.

The theme for the program this year is Health in Unexpected Places—health-oriented research exists in surprising and unexpected places across every faculty, school, and department at UBC.

Congratulations to the following Health After 2020 teams, who are undertaking innovative health-oriented research that stretches beyond the usual or expected:

• Are early years still the greatest equalizer? Examining equity in early childhood emerging from the COVID era
  Principal Investigator: Martin Guhn, Associate Professor, Human Early Learning Partnership, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
• Hearing Indigenous voices during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Principal Investigator: Kimberly Huyser, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, UBC
• Hungry for stories: Building collaboration among dietitians, health scholars, policymakers, and artists to spark public action on food insecurity
  Principal Investigator: Jennifer Black, Associate Professor, Food, Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC
• PROmoting Early Childhood Outside (PRO-ECO) in BC early learning and child care centres 
  Principal Investigator: Mariana Brussoni, Director, Human Early Learning Partnership and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
• Reframing dialogue through embodied approaches: surpassing barriers to health in a verbal world
  Principal Investigator: Anamaria Richardson, Clinical Assistant Professor and Community Based Pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC 
• Substance exchange: Drug-checking services pilot exchange program
  Principal Investigator: Lukas Bichler, Professor, School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, UBC Okanagan
• The impact of social adversity on cardiovascular health and aging
  Principal Investigator: Robert Shave, Professor, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social, UBC Okanagan

For more information on the projects and collaborators, visit the Health After 2020 page. 

Posted November 14, 2022