Event Planning and Co-Hosting
The HRI welcomes the opportunity to partner or co-host events and guest presentations that align with its mission. We encourage HRI members to work with the Institute as a venue for logistical and promotional support for their knowledge translation and exchange activities. The Institute can provide letters of support and draft budgets for project grants. Contact hri@unbc.ca for options and costing for event planning and co-hosting.
Faculty of Human and Health Sciences (FHHS)
Interim Dean, Dr. Margot Parkes
- FHHS/HRI Professorial Lecture Series
- The Faculty of Human and Health Sciences (FHHS) established its inaugural Professorial Lecture Series in February 2025 in partnership with the HRI. A Professorial Lecture highlights the career of a tenure track faculty recently promoted to Professor, and the FHHS is proud to continue this tradition of highlighting their newly promoted faculty.
- On February 3, 2025 Dr. Davina Banner-Lukaris provided the first Professorial Lecture Series.
Centre for Technology Adoption for Aging in the North (CTAAN)
Academic Director, Dr. Shannon Freeman and Director Dr. Richard McAloney
- Age-Well Webinar Series Co-Hosted with HRI
- May 2nd, 2024 | Current research and development of assistive products for persons with dementia in Japan
- June 27th, 2024 | Enhancing Care for Older Adults in Japan – development of a digital approach to comprehensive geriatric assessment -
- Visiting Scholars from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine Japan: Drs. Ebinara, Miyagi, Wu and Park
Dr. Anurag Singh
- November 20th, 2024 | Transforming Kidney Health in Indigenous Peoples: Experience from ANZ
- Visiting Scholar, Dr. Jaqui Hughes
- Co-hosted with NCCR and HRI
Dr. Erin Barker, Associate Professor - School of Nursing (Co-Hosted with Northern Health)
- September 26th, 2024 | Linking strategic health research development to informing evidence-based practice: Experiences of a rural healthcare organization in the United Kingdom
- Visiting Scholar, Dr. Bonnie Teague
- Co-Hosted with Northern Health
UNBC Office of Research and Innovation
- November 6th, 2024 | Quality Measures for Qualitative Research: What really matters and why?
- Visiting Scholar Dr. Virginia Braun, Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Event Support
Dr. Anurag Singh, Division of Medical Sciences
- June 3rd, 2024 | The Hybrid Care Research Collaborative
Division of Medical Sciences
- August 8, 2024 | Small Molecules in Drug Discovery and Disease Diagnostics
- Visiting Scholar Dr. Keng Yoon Yeong, Monash University, Malaysia
- January 31, 2025 | Canada’s Leadership in Diabetes Research Through Core-Driven Open team Science
- Visiting Scholar, Dr. Jim Johnson, University of BC & Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
2024 Education and Training Day
- November 7, 2024 | Enhancing Quality in Collaborative Research
- NH-UNBC Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Initiative