BC Primary Health Care Research Network

News and Events

  • Pre-announcement of SPOR PIHCI Knowledge Synthesis and Comparative Program and Policy Analysis grants

    In November 2017 the Canadian Institutes of Health Research will launch the SPOR Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation (PIHCI) Knowledge Synthesis and Comparative Program and Policy Analysis funding opportunities, through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR). Details are available on our funding opportunities page. Read more

  • Can algorithms predict frailty? Update on a BC Quick Strike project

    Data access via Population Data BC has been approved for a funded Quick Strike study which is creating and testing algorithms to predict frailty using administrative health data and primary care electronic medical record data. The Study, called Validation of Administrative and Primary Care Electronic Medical Record Derived Frailty Algorithms, is in three provinces, and Read more

  • Webinar for BC-based Rewarding Success Initiative applicants

    Join the BC SUPPORT Unit on Monday, October 23, 2017, from 2:00-3:30pm for a BC-researcher-focused information webinar. The webinar will be about BC-specific applications to the Rewarding Success Initiative, launched by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Initiative. In the webinar, presenters will provide you with an Read more

  • The Patient Advisory and the PREFeR (PRioritiEs For Research) Project

    L-R: Marilyn Culbert, Chad Dickie, Regina Cid, Ruth Lavergne, Melody Monro, Penny Henderson, Hayley Pelletier, Brenda Jagroop, Louisa Edwards, Kent Cadogan Loftsgard, Ravin Singh, Tara Fitzgerald. Missing: Yaron Butterfield. Primary care is where most people go first for medical help and advice when they have a health issue. It is provided by health care professionals, Read more

  • Introducing the BC-PHCRN Patient Advisory

    The Patient Advisory is composed of 10 volunteer members from across BC. Members review and provide input on research projects based on their personal experience as a patients, share information with their networks, and support and advise the Advisory Committee and the BC-PHCRN leadership. Meet the members of the Patient Advisory. On Sept. 30, 2017, Read more

  • TUTOR-PHC call for applications open

    The call for applications for TUTOR-PHC is open to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, mid-career clinicians, and decision makers in primary health care. What is the program? TUTOR-PHC or Transdisciplinary Understandings and Training on Research – Primary Health Care, is a one-year, pan-Canadian interdisciplinary research capacity building program that has been training primary and integrated health Read more