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UBC Health has announced the recipients of UBC Health’s Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards.
The HIFI Awards support cross-faculty and cross-campus research at UBC to create solutions for better health and address health inequities. This award helps interdisciplinary groups of health researchers to undertake innovative projects that have the potential to create change.
Awards of $10,000 to $25,000 are granted to faculty members who are collaborating across faculties, disciplines, and campuses to develop new teams, pursue new ideas, or translate findings from innovative health-related research.
UBC Psychology faculty and their research collaborators received HIFI Awards for the following projects in the Healthy Aging stream:
SLEEP DISRUPTION, BEHAVIOURAL FACTORS, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AS DRIVERS OF ACCELERATED AGING AMONG NIGHT SHIFT WORKERS
HIFI AWARD: $25,000
This research project will establish a cross-faculty and cross-campus collaborative relationship that will drive novel research and training opportunities in the area of circadian disruption and healthy aging. The study aims to reveal valuable mechanistic insights and produce critical preliminary data with which to secure funding for future large-scale studies of preventative interventions.
- Parveen Bhatti, Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine
- Nancy Sin, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Najib Ayas, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
- Brian Dalton, Assistant Professor, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan
AGING IN PLACE: A PERSPECTIVE FROM INDIGENOUS OLDER ADULTS AND ELDERS
HIFI AWARD: $25,000
Working alongside Indigenous communities, the research team will co-create knowledge on what aging-in-place means to Indigenous older adults. From a developed survey, the team will generate a Canadian data network of the physical, emotional, spiritual, and cultural needs of older Indigenous adults for healthy aging. The project team will co-develop stakeholder and community reports to inform Indigenous needs for aging in place.
- Jennifer Jakobi, Professor, Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, and Director of the Institute of Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan
- Christiane Hoppmann, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Jon Corbett, Professor, Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, Faculty of Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director, Institute for Community Engaged Research, UBC Okanagan
- Maureen Ashe, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Community Mobility, Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine
- Lee Allison Clark, Director of Health, Native Women’s Association of Canada
- Kate Crosby, Undergraduate Student, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan
- Jill Williamson, Research Coordinator, Aging in Place Research Cluster, UBC Okanagan
