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The UNBC Health Research Institute (HRI) is designed to enable UNBC's experienced and emerging health researchers (faculty, staff and students) from across the 5 Faculties and the Division of Medical Sciences, to join together for the purpose of furthering health research and innovation. The Institute provides a venue for collaboration among the diverse group of researchers from many disciplines, who undertake various forms of health research, including research on the determinants of health. The Institute encompasses researchers working in the areas identified in the UNBC Strategic Research Plan (Determinants of Health, Health Services and Policy, Population and Public Health, Indigenous Health, Health and Environment), as well as others who engage in health research at UNBC.


Vision

The UNBC Health Research Institute envisions a world in which healthy individual​s, families and communities live without health inequities.


Mission

To facilitate the creation and translation of knowledge that will enhance the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities.

The UNBC Health Research Institute will pursue this mission through promoting knowledge creation, knowledge synthesis and exchange, fostering links among researchers, stakeholders and partners such as Northern Health, and developing research capacity.


Core strategic directions

The Health Research Institute will have four core strategic directions. While they are outlined separately, it is anticipated that they will be interconnected in practice.

  1. Knowledge Creation 
  2. Knowledge Synthesis and Exchange 
  3. Fostering Linkages
  4. Capacity Development

Themes

The UNBC Health Research Institute's members conduct research in the following areas:

  • Biomedical 
  • Clinical 
  • Social and Environmental Determinants of Health 
  • Indigenous Health 
  • Health Services and Policy

Areas of research

  • Biomedical 
  • Clinical 
  • Social and Environmental Determinants of Health 
  • Health Services and Policy
  • Indigenous Health

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