(L-R) Dr. Frances Chen and Dr. Liisa Galea
Dr. Frances Chen and Dr. Liisa Galea received funding through Michael Smith Health Research BC’s 2022 Convening & Collaborating (C2) Award.
The Michael Smith Health Research BC C2 Program promotes knowledge exchange and meaningful collaboration by supporting research teams and stakeholders in developing research that can directly improve the health of people and communities across British Columbia.
Psychology C2 research projects:
Acts of kindness as an antidote to social disconnection: Development and dissemination of an online intervention program to increase social engagement in BC neighbourhoods
Principal Investigator: Frances Chen
Co-lead: Jasica Grewal
Team members: Jasica Grewal (United Way of BC); Tobias Jones (United Way of BC); Yeeun Archer Lee (UBC); Julia Nakamura (UBC); Rachel Hamilton (UBC)
Mind the gap: Hormonal contraceptives and the brain
Principal Investigator: Liisa Galea
Co-lead: Katherine Moore
Team members: Katherine Moore (Women’s Health Research Cluster); Jesse Lacasse (Concordia University); Bonnie Lee (UBC); Jennifer Williams (McMaster University); Maureen MacDonald (McMaster University); Nafissa Ismail (University of Ottawa); Elizabeth Hampson (University of Western Ontario); Gillian Einstein (University of Toronto); Frances Chen (UBC); Sofia Ahmed (University of Calgary)
“I’m very grateful to have the support of Michael Smith Health Research BC to support an ongoing collaboration with United Way BC. The support will help bring our research team at UBC together with UWBC’s team of community engagement specialists and community builders, in order to co-develop evidence-based strategies to tackle pressing challenges faced by our local communities.”
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Chen and Dr. Galea on this funding.
Dr. Frances Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at UBC. Her research explores the intersection of social psychology and health psychology, linking our social lives (and, increasingly, our online social lives), mental health and physical health.
Dr. Liisa Galea is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at UBC. She is also the lead of the Women’s Health Research Cluster. Her research goal is to improve brain health for women and men by examining the influence of sex and sex hormones on normal and diseased brain states such as depression and Alzheimer’s disease.
