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- cardiology
- nephrology
- critical care
- emergency medicine
- urban health
- mental health
- long-term care
- aging and dementia
- health economics
- social determinants of health (i.e. gender, socio-economic status, geography, ethnicity)
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You can find all our recent news here. Advancing Health Scientists have focused on COVID-19 and the impacts on different populations, treatments that prevent fentanyl deaths, and improving emergency medical care in remote Indigenous communities, to highlight a few of their latest projects.
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Advancing Health experts on COVID-19
Our experts are available to discuss a wide variety of topics related to the pandemic.
COVID-19 StoriesMental Health and Wellness
Dr. Skye Barbic
Assistant Professor, Occupational Science, UBC
Expertise: Youth mental health and substance use
Dr. Anne Gadermann
Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Expertise: Youth, family, teacher mental health; Housing and homelessness
Dr. Joseph Puyat
Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Expertise: Mental wellness and resiliency; Burnout
Dr. Daniel Vigo
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UBC
Expertise: Mental health and substance use during the pandemic
Dr. Chris Richardson
Research Associate, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Expertise: Mental health and substance use; Vulnerable Populations; Virtual Care
Frontline Health Providers
Dr. Brian Grunau
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC
Expertise: Emergency medicine, paramedics; Co-PI of the COVID-19 Occupational Risks, Seroprevalence and Immunity among Paramedics in Canada (CORSIP Canada) Study
Dr. Amy Salmon
Associate Director, CfAHO; Clinical Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Expertise: Long-term care; Dementia care; Culture change
Health Systems
Dr. Eric Grafstein
Regional Head, Department of Emergency Medicine, PHC and VCH
Expertise: Emergency medicine; Wait times, health systems
Dr. Anita Ho
Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC
Expertise: Bioethics; Ethics of vaccine rollout; Health systems; Just recovery
Dr. Jason Sutherland
Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Expertise: Surgical delays related to the pandemic; Health systems
Clinical Care During the Pandemic
Dr. Chris Fordyce
Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, UBC
Expertise: Virtual care; Care during the pandemic (cardiology)
Dr. Lillian Hung
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, UBC
Expertise: Virtual care; Dementia care
Dr. Sandra Lauck
Clinician Scientist, Heart Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital
Expertise: Heart procedures during the pandemic
Dr. Sarah Munro
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UBC
Expertise: Birth and pregnancy; Knowledge Translation; Shared decision making