Our Projects
From community-led data to systems transformation — five projects generating rigorous evidence and translating it into real-world health equity change.
Community-Led Action for Resiliency Important Throughout Youth
Led by Dr. Sana Shahram & Dr. Katrina Plamondon
CLARITY is a local initiative building community resilience to prevent youth suicide in the Central Okanagan. By centering community voice and lived experience, the project develops culturally grounded, evidence-based approaches to youth mental health and suicide prevention.
Learn More →Led by Dr. Sana Shahram
The Mothering Co/Lab applies the BC Human Rights Commissioners' framework — Disaggregated Demographic Data Collection in British Columbia: The Grandmother Perspective — to the contexts of perinatal substance use monitoring, surveillance, and reporting. The project centres Indigenous and equity-deserving mothers in reshaping how data about them is collected and used.
Learn More →OPEN GHR
Led by Dr. Katrina Plamondon
Funding policies are important sites for implementation of equity-centred principles and strategies — they set norms, directions, and priorities for research and serve as a primary incentive for researchers. The OPEN GHR project examines how actors working across Canada's global health research ecosystem understand and operationalize their commitments to equity.
Learn More →Building Relational Immune-based Innovations DialoGuE
Led by Dr. Katrina Plamondon
BRIIDGE invites people to join reflective, evidence-informed conversations about complex topics related to immunotherapeutic innovations for public health — beginning with a dialogue series on mRNA vaccine sentiments and what it would take to generate healthy trust in pandemic-ready ways. A sub-project of the Bridge Research Consortium (BRC), funded by the Government of Canada through Canada's Immuno-Engineering and Bio-manufacturing Hub.
Learn More →Led by Dr. Sana Shahram
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, global inequities in access to COVID-19 related medicines, supplies, and equipment were decried as catastrophic outcomes of failed global governance. This policy analysis and dialogue-based research explores the ethics of obligations to others on issues of collective global health, using vaccine nationalism as a window to understanding global governance and equity.
Learn More →We partner with researchers, community organizations, and institutions who want to generate evidence that actually changes things.