Seven interdisciplinary teams receive funding through the UBC Health HIFI awards to address health challenges related to aging.
The Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards by UBC Health are intended to catalyze collaborations in health research by supporting cross faculty and cross campus research at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. UBC Health has partnered with the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging by introducing a Healthy Aging stream, which is intended to support projects at UBC that take an interdisciplinary approach to address health challenges related to aging. See the 7 winners of the HIFI Award (Healthy Aging stream) below and click here to read more about the projects and its recipients!
1) Project: SLEEP DISRUPTION, BEHAVIOURAL FACTORS, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AS DRIVERS OF ACCELERATED AGING AMONG NIGHT SHIFT WORKERS
Principal Investigator: Parveen Bhatti, Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine; Investigator, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging
Co-applicants:
Nancy Sin
Najib Ayas
Brian Dalton
2) Project: A PATIENTORIENTED AND CASEMIX APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND DRIVERS OF HEALTH RESOURCE UTILIZATION AMONG OLDER ADULTS AT HIGH RISK OF FALLS RISK OF FALLS
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Davis (Faddegon), Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, UBC Okanagan
Co-applicants:
Craig Mitton
Linda Li
Teresa Liu Ambrose
Ryan Falck
Ben Karnon
3) Project: BETTER LIVING AFTER CANCER IN OLDER CANADIANS: IDENTIFYING PATIENT PREDICTIVE MARKERS OF TREATMENT RESPONSE
Principal Investigator: Christina Haston, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, UBC Okanagan
Co-applicants:
Peter Watson
Angela Lin
Jeff Andrews
Jose Sapien
Mitchell Wiebe
Agnes Sauter
4) Project: RAISE YOUR VOICE: AN INDEPTH EXPLORATION OF FAMILY AND RESIDENT COUNCIL EFFECTIVENESS IN LONGTERM CARE
Principal Investigator: Farinaz Havaei, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science; Investigator, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging
Co-applicants:
Sabina Staempfli
Aleksandra Dulic
5) Project: AGING IN PLACE: A PERSPECTIVE FROM INDIGENOUS OLDER ADULTS AND ELDERS
Principal Investigator: 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; Investigator, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging
Co-applicants:
Christiane Hoppmann
Jon Corbett
Maureen Ashe
Lee Allison Clark
Kate Crosby
Jill Williamson
6) Project: IDENTIFICATION OF A CONJUNCTIVALGUT MICROBIOME AXIS IN AGERELATED DRY EYE DISEASES
Principal Investigator: Sepideh Pakpour, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, UBC Okanagan
Co-applicants:
Alfonso Iovieno
Sonia N. Yeung
Javad Sadeghi
Nicolas KahuamLopez
Michael Zhao
7) Project: V CARE: A VIRTUAL REALITY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED TRAINING TOOL FOR ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS
Principal Investigator: Annie Wan, Associate Professor, Creative Studies, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan
Co-applicant:
Lillian Hung