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At BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), our researchers save and transform children’s lives through discovery, innovation, and excellence. Together with our generous and visionary partners, funders, and donors, and the families who participate in our research, we are at the forefront of child and family health in British Columbia and around the world.

BCCHR is located on the BC Children’s Hospital campus in Vancouver, the only hospital in BC devoted exclusively to pediatric patients. Our institute is the largest of its kind in terms of people, productivity, funding, and size in Western Canada.

In the lab, clinic, and community, our clinicians and scientists are:

  • Improving treatments and finding cures
  • Developing breakthrough technologies
  • Advancing knowledge of child health and development
  • Informing health policy and practice

We are academically affiliated with the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and a program of the Provincial Health Services Authority. BCCHR is supported by the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Funding interests

Award Types

Research Trainee


Research Interests

Research Trainees must be supervised by a research investigator, who holds a full-time academic appointment at a British Columbian university and is affiliated with BC Children’s Hospital. The proposed project must have direct relevance to improving the health of children (individuals 0-18 years of age) and their families.

Awards

2023

Recipient

Elizabeth Nethery

Award type

Research trainee award


Project title

Team-based postpartum care and infant care models: Effects on service use,
outcomes, and health system costs in the one year after birth

2020

Recipient

Wendy Pringle

Award type

Research trainee award


Project title

Understanding the challenges and opportunities in communicating vaccine risks and benefits to midwifery clients

2017

Recipient

Shugo Sasaki

Award type

Research trainee award


Project title

Protecting insulin-producing beta cell transplants from death and dysfunction