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To implement and evaluate the Province-Wide Scale-up of Social Prescribing to Improve Older Adults’ Well-being in British Columbia.
To address HIV and STBBI among Two-Spirit, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer Men in Canada Through Community-Led Research and Capacity-Building.
To understand how systemic challenges in mental health care contributed to the Lapu Lapu tragedy ensure that those harmed in its wake are met with timely, compassionate, and effective psychosocial support.
To explore how different social eating programs influence food access and the sociocultural experiences of people experiencing food insecurity.
To assess the social uses and psychological consequences of conversational large language models.
To identify opportunities for increasing blood donation among young people.
To explore physician readiness for social prescribing: beliefs, barriers, and opportunities in primary care.
To co-design and deliver a national, youth-led online webinar and knowledge-mobilization series that centers racialized communities to advance climate justice, mental health equity, and policy-relevant learning in Canada.
To implement and evaluate social prescribing pathways for older adults in British Columbia, Ontario, and Alberta with a focus on physical activity, healthy eating, social connection, and self-management.
To identify policy, care and education strategies to minimize harms among GBT2Q men who use poppers.
To develop an evidence-based framework for community-based loneliness interventions across the life course.
To explore the role of Climate Resilience Groups in improving the mental health of older adults in Canada.
To identify promising practices to strengthen and sustain community connections during and after climate change related events.
To support the expansion of social prescribing in seniors’ home and community care across British Columbia by building multidisciplinary partnerships and developing a scalable implementation and evaluation plan that integrates health and community services to address older adults’ unmet social needs and promote healthy aging and independence.
To explore the role of self-focus in moderating the effectiveness of prosocial behaviour in reducing loneliness.
To explore poultry farmers' decision-making strategies amidst multiple challenges and the effect of these on mental health and emotional distress.
To understand who is receiving social prescriptions, describes the seniors' experience through the cascade of care (referral to connector; generation of care plan; linkage to community and home care services; satisfaction with service; demonstrated improvements in outcomes), and assess the impact of social prescribing on seniors, caregivers, and the health system within the Fraser Health Region.
To evaluate barriers to Care to Speak and enhance peer-based mental health support for healthcare workers in British Columbia.
To explore the use of participatory storytelling to engage youth for climate action.
To design and implement a province-wide, multi-component intervention for climate-related ecological distress.
To examine crystal methamphetamine use and its associations with sexually transmitted infections among gay and bisexual men in order to identify modifiable treatment targets.
To conduct an intersectional and life course approach to loneliness in middle-aged and older adults.
To assess the feasibility of conducting an intersectional and life course approach to loneliness in middle-aged and older adults.
To evaluate the effect of the Friendly Call’s Program on Volunteers delivering befriending services.
To conduct climate-related mental health research among youth
To identify best practices for the use of artificial intelligence and digital communication technologies to address social isolation in older adults.
To develop and implement a public health promotion campaign for social health guidelines.
To identify mechanistic pathways from climate-related factors to HIV prevention and care outcomes in rural and urban Tanzania.
To conduct knowledge mobilization and health promotion activities related to social connection and health.
To understand the impact of trans-focused primary care on the well-being of trans and non-binary people.
To Develop a Resource Library to Help Address the Socioecological Determinants of Mental Health among Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Colour.
To understand the role of communities and participants in the transfer of social prescribing from England to three Canadian provinces.
To investigate barriers correlates of group sex disclosure by patients to healthcare providers.
To foster social connectedness in youth to optimize mental health and well-being.
To Establishing Community Priorities for Combining Research Data on HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Two-Spirit, and Queer Men and Non-
To explore intergenerational social connections among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men as a social prescription for building resilience against syndemic sexually transmitted and blood born infections.
To explore intergenerational social connections among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men as a social prescription for building resilience against syndemic sexually transmitted and blood born infections.
To promote cognitive wellbeing in seniors through refinement of an intergenerational befriending intervention
To strengthen climate change resilience in the community social services sector.
To explore the role of food traditions and social eating in strengthening British Columbia’s community and social services sector, promoting social inclusion, and addressing food insecurity.
To characterize motivators, barriers, and guidelines for increasing volunteerism accessibility.
To understand coping strategies among people with Post-COVID Syndrome in BC.
To explore community member’s feelings about best use for North Park Parks, Parking Lots & Public Facilities.
To co-design a digital social prescribing platform.
To disseminate lower risk cannabis use guidelines for youth across the province.
To develop a pan-Canadian research network to address environmental impacts on mental health
To co-design mental health services for young people in British Columbia.
To co-develop research priorities for supporting unpaid care-givers of those living with Long-COVID.
To explore how to optimize volunteer recruitment, engagement, and retention in large third sector organizations.
To develop a Café Scientifique Series that Integrates the Stories and Science Describing the Impacts of Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Disconnection and What We Can Do to Build a More Connected Canada.
To Establish the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing.
To Develop Social Connection Guidelines to Help Canadians Build Happier, Healthier, and More Inclusive Communities in the Late Pandemic Period
To Explore the Acceptability, Feasibility, and Bias Assessment in Administrative Health Data Linkage among 2SLGBTQQIA+ Communities
To study Amazzi bulamu (weather and wellbeing) by exploring interactions between climate change and HIV care cascade among youth living with HIV in Central and Eastern Uganda
To Understand Climate-Related Ecological Distress and Resilience within Changing and Challenging Environments
To Create an Automated Climate Change Distress Monitoring System (A-CDMS) for Measuring Population-level Distress About Climate Change
To Facilitate Action and Knowledge Exchange at the Nexus of Environment and Health Through Integrated Child and Youth Engagement
To Develop a Comprehensive Strategy for Safer Youth Cannabis Use in British Columbia
To Evaluate the Social Health Needs of People Living in Canada and Assess How Health Systems Can Support Social Health
To explore Climate Change Related Negative Emotional Responses and Coping Strategies of Canadian Adolescents.
To promote welcoming and inclusion of Indigenous patients at a sexual health clinic through arts-based murals.
To improve access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To Conduct a Needs Assessment for the North Park Neighbourhood Association.
To facilitate the youth-led development of lower-risk cannabis use guidelines for individuals aged 13 to 18.
To Explore the Development of Tailored and Evidence-based Syphilis Preventions Strategies for 2SLGBTQ people living in syphilis hotspots
To explore whether Proteomic and Immune Characterization of Treponema pallidum Outer Membrane Vesicles are a Promising Approach for Effective Syphilis Vaccine Development
To Develop an Index That Simultaneously Measures the Environmental and Socio-Cultural Vulnerability of Municipalities across British Columbia
To launch a national survey on loneliness and social isolation in Canada.
To facilitate the engagement of Indigenous physicians and patients in the development of evaluations of social prescribing programs on Vancouver Island.
To establish a monitoring and surveillance framework for chronic disease among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.
To conduct mixed methods evaluation of risk mitigation measures to address the dual public health crises of COVID-19 and opioid overdose deaths.
To examine the impacts of physical distancing on sexual and gender marginalized populations across Canada.
To develop equity-weights that can be used by policy makers in their resource allocations decisions within the HIV sector.
Snack Chat: A low barrier, community-based knowledge exchange initiative.
Modernizing Sex and Gender Information Practices in Electronic Health Records.
To evaluating the primary healthcare needs of patients accessing dedicated sexual health services.
To organize a virtual colloquium on the mental health impacts of climate and weather change.
Testing, Reaching the Undiagnosed and Linkages to Care: “REACHing” for Impact
REACH CBR Collaborative Centre in HIV/AIDS 3.0.
To understand the general population impact of changing blood donation deferral criteria.
A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Analysis of Pleasure, Sexual Consent, and Risk During Group Sex.
To pilot novel HCV screenings using online-initiated, at-home HCV dried blood spot testing in British Columbia.
To develop analytic guidelines and reporting standards for using administrative data to compare health outcomes related to HIV/HCV in British Columbia.
To identify the barriers and facilitators to optimizing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation in different geographies and priority populations across BC.
To conduct community consultation regarding health priorities, knowledge gaps, and desired engagement strategies among gay and bisexual men.
