Conference: Cross Cultural Mental Health Conference, Mental
The Cross Cultural Mental Health Conference is coming up this year in Vancouver on October 5-6, 2011. Our director Kendall will be there speaking about the InterCultural Online Network (iCON) project, and how we have been bringing health information in native languages to minority populations in the Vancouver area. The conference as a whole will […]
Social media in health and medicine: UBC Graduate course open for registration
We are excited to announce a new course this fall at UBC offered through the School of Population and Public Health entitled “Social Media in Health and Medicine.” This course is one of very few like it in graduate studies in the world.
eHealth Summer Camp in the Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail ran a nice article this morning about the eHealth Young Innovators Summer Camp that was coordinated by our office and sponsored by TELUS. It was a real pleasure to host the camp at UBC, and we are so pleased to have this feedback from the students and the press. Harvey Zhang, […]
Education Generation Fellowship: Lindsay Zibrik Takes Her Research to Peru
In June 2011, Lindsay will undertake the challenge of participation in the Education Generation Fellowship in the Sacred Valley region of Peru. The annual Fellowship program sends volunteer fellows overseas to enhance relationships with, and support education partners on the ground. Lindsay has been partnered with Education Generation’s partner Mosqoy: Sacred Valley Youth Fund in […]
Dr. Sandra Jarvis-Selinger receives 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award
Congratulations to Dr. Sandra Jarvis Selinger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and our Associate Director, for taking home a Distinguished Acheivement Award from the UBC Faculty of Medicine in the category “Excellence in Education.”
Kendall Ho elected to 2011-2012 COACH Board
We are proud to announce that Dr. Kendall Ho has been elected to the Board of Directors of Canada’s Health Informatics Association, COACH, for the upcoming year!
Home-Based Telehealth for Chronic Disease Management: An interactive presentation of early findings
Please join us on June 14th from 8:00-11:30am for a presentation of our early findings from the CIHR funded Home-Based Telehealth for Chronic Disease Management Knowledge Synthesis, led by Principal Investigator Dr. Sandra Jarvis-Selinger. The goal of this participatory knowledge synthesis project is to develop recommendations and findings that are directly applicable to a wide variety of users.
WHO GOe/eHealth Strategy Office mHealth Photo Competition Winners!
Earlier this year, the eHealth Strategy Office in partnership with the WHO Global observatory for eHealth announced a mHealth (mobile health) competition.