Providence Research is the research enterprise of Providence Health Care (PHC).

In affiliation with the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Providence Research is host to four distinct research centres and a number of independent clinical research groups.

Providence Research finds solutions to challenges that arise from PHC’s care settings through high-quality research, including laboratory, clinical and applied outcomes research. Integrated with patient care and teaching, research spans more than 30 programs and disciplines. Areas of focus directly align with PHC’s populations of emphasis: HIV/AIDS; urban health and addictions; heart and lung disease; kidney disease; mental health; and specialized needs in aging.

Along with mentoring and training new talent, Providence Research promotes interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaborations, knowledge transfer, and partnerships with patients and families and health leaders in the community.

Providence Research also partners with MSFHR to co-fund research via the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI) and the Centre For Health Evaluation And Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS).

Awards

2021

Recipient

Alana Flexman

Award type

Health Professional- Investigator award


Project title

Perioperative stroke screening and outcomes in high-risk surgical patients

2020

Recipient

Gordon Francis

Award type

Health Professional- Investigator award


Project title

Redefining atherosclerosis: Characterizing and targeting smooth muscle cell foam cells for the treatment and prevention of coronary heart disease and stroke

2019

Recipient

Travis Salway

Award type

Scholar award


Project title

Adapting BC’s healthcare system for equitable and tailored service provision to sexual and gender minorities

Recipient

Joseph Puyat

Award type

Scholar award


Project title

Exploring Novel Approaches to Reduce the Prevalence of Depression

Recipient

Sarah Munro

Award type

Scholar award


Project title

Implementation of Shared Decision Making to Improve Person- and Family-Centred Care

Recipient

Michele Schaeffer

Award type

Research Trainee award


Project title

The effects of 60% oxygen during exercise training in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease

Recipient

Wei Zhang

Award type

Scholar award


Project title

Health, Work and Society: Improving Health Economic Evaluations

2018


Award type

Research Trainee award


Project title

Investigating the role of skeletal muscle dysfunction on dyspnea and exercise intolerance in interstitial lung disease

Recipient

Stephanie Sellers

Award type

Research Trainee award


Project title

Structural valve degeneration in bioprosthetic heart valves


Award type

Scholar award


Project title

A causal inference framework for analyzing large administrative healthcare databases with a focus on multiple sclerosis

Recipient

Anne M Gadermann

Award type

Scholar award


Project title

Mental health trajectories of immigrant and refugee children: An ecological population-based approach

Recipient

Delbert Dorscheid

Award type

Health Professional- Investigator award


Project title

IgE-mediated inflammation generated by the airway epithelium is antigen independent-a cause of a novel asthma phenotype

2017

Recipient

Mark Harrison

Award type

Scholar award


Project title

Incentivizing the delivery of sustainable care of chronic diseases in Canada: Case studies in musculoskeletal disease

Recipient

Janice Leung

Award type

Health Professional- Investigator award


Project title

Understanding the aging HIV lung from dysbiosis to cell injury