As the Lane Level lecture hall is out of circulation, we’re moving the workshops and symposia presentations to the UBC Medical Student Alumni Centre next door. Posters will still be displayed on the hallway walls at BCCDC, on the Lane Level and 2nd floor.

Stay tuned for the full schedule and lineup of speakers coming soon. Plan to join your colleagues as they present updates and results from interesting research and programming.

This year is the 11th anniversary of BCCDC Research Week, and the BCCDC Foundation is pleased to be a part of the planning and delivery, as well as a sponsor, since 2011.

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The BCCDC Foundation was pleased to sponsor Research Week, as well as take an active role on the organizing committee. We believe it’s important for all the teams at the BCCDC to benefit from seeing the results of each other’s hard work, and that’s a big reason for having an annual research knowledge translation event. If you missed some of the presentations, we have them archived here.

As well, thank you to all of the 50 BCCDC volunteers who participated in the Zombie Outbreak fun event at Science World on the last day of Research Week. From all accounts, the attendees had a lot of fun, were really engaged, and learned a lot about stopping the spread of infectious disease.

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The week starts off strong on Monday, with a workshop on Naloxone Training and Emergency Preparedness. We’ll also have the posters on display, so don’t forget to participate in the Poster Scavenger Hunt all week for you chance at some great prizes. Tuesday highlights include Keynote speaker Nathan Yozwiak, Associate Director, Viral Genomics in the Infectious Disease Program of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who will speak on “Outbreak Response in the Genomic Age”. As well, this is the first day of the research symposium, so you won’t want to miss presentations on innovation and research at the BCCDC. On Wednesday, we’re having a fun workshop on Ikebana, which now has a wait-list. Thursday, the Symposium continues (see full schedule below) and will close with our final Keynote speaker, our own Jane Buxton, who will present, “Naloxone: A Miracle Medication for the Opioid  Epidemic, but is it Enough?” The final event of Research Week is the Zombie Outbreak event on Friday Oct 27th, a collaboration between the BCCDC Foundation, BCCDC, and Science World. We hope you already have your ticket as it’s sold out!

Downloadable pdf: RW poster Schedule 2017

The BCCDC Foundation is proud to be an integral part of the planning and delivery of Research Week, as well as a sponsor, since 2011.

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Workshop

Drs Gina Ogilvie and Mark Gilbert and their team have been awarded funding towards, “Supporting Regional Participation in a Collaborative Implementation Science Roundtable” to bring together knowledge users and collaborators with the (CIHR funded) GetCheckedOnline program for a two day meeting to review the research findings to date and arrive at a consensus regarding impacts of the intervention and to identify future research priorities of the team currently assembled, including a framework for an “implementation best practices tool-kit” to assist in translation to other jurisdictions.

Travel

Dr Muhammad Morshed has been awarded funding for “Presenting BCCDC Public Health Laboratory Research at AMMI/CACMID AGM”. This funding, as well as funds from two other sources, enables two of his lab team to present four abstracts on behalf of the BCCDC at the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (AMMI) / Canadian Association of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CACMID) annual meeting.

Blue Sky

Dr Agatha Jassem and her team have been awarded funding for “Correlating Childhood Viral Exposures to Allergy and Asthma Using Novel Viromic Methods”. This pilot study will expand on previous work looking at known respiratory viral infections acquired in early childhood as potential contributors to allergy and asthma at age five. Advanced lab methods that can detect and characterize all known human viruses will be applied to samples from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) cohort and linked to clinical data on childhood allergy and asthma. The team plans to use this ‘proof-of-concept’ phase to develop a future large-scale investigation.

BCCDC faculty interested in applying for funding, be sure to watch your email inboxes in August: the next round of applications will be reviewed in October 2017.

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As part of the proceedings, there will be over 500 posters and e-posters from researchers on a number of health topics. The BCCDC Foundation is proud to have been able to sponsor five poster prizes to recognize outstanding health systems work.

BCCDC has a display table in the Symposium Marketplace, with information on GetCheckedOnline, Chee Mamuk and the Foundation.

The BC Centre for Disease Control members and researchers are involved in many aspects of the Symposium: on the local organizing committees, as speakers, presenters, volunteers, attendees, and in the case of Meaghan Thumath, as an #HSGSpeaks reporter you can follow on Twitter and Instagram.

For more information on the Symposium, please visit their website

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