FHS faculty members earn CIHR funding

January 31, 2011

Several members of the Faculty of Health Sciences have recently been awarded funding through the Canadian Institures of Health Research (CIHR).

Treena Orchard (School of Health Studies) and her colleagues in British Columbia have been awarded $100,000 bridge funding from the Institute of Gender and Health for their project entitled "The Anatomy of Adherence: How Gender and The Body Structure HIV Positive Poly-Substance Using People's Relationships to HIV Medications". Orchard is the Principal Investigator on the project.

Helene Berman (Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing) received $10,000 for her project, "The Influence of Structural and Systemic Violence on the Health of Children and Adolescents: Intersections among Gender, Race, and Class". Berman is the Principal Investigator on the project.

Marilyn Ford-Gilboe (Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing) was co-Principal Investigator on a project entitled "Addressing the Consequences of Violence and Trauma: A Health Intervention for Women in an Indigenous Context".  This 5-year grant is for 1.1 million.  The project will adapt their health intervention for women who have left an abusive partner to fit with the needs and experiences of aboriginal women and test this adapted intervention.

Trevor Birmingham (School of Physical Therapy) and Tom Jenkyn (School of Kinesiology) are co-investigators along with colleagues from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry on a project entitled "Single-plane dynamic radiography for quantification of bone and joint motion". The CIHR Operating Grant is for $752,848 over five years.

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