In partnership with the Ministry of Health, UBC Health is offering funding of up to $50,000 to researchers from UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan to address a specific research question identified by the Ministry of Health.
The call for proposals opens October 4, 2023, with the Notice of Intent due October 18, 2023 and full applications due December 15, 2023. See here for more information.
Research questions include mobile mental health crisis services, hospice care, pharmacy care and the following:
- What are the treatment challenges faced by small water system operators relating to water quality (e.g., turbidity) stemming from climate change induced risk amplification of extreme precipitation events, flooding, or draughts, and what actions have been shown to increase their resilience?
- What is the burden of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in BC drinking water? This includes investigating the concentrations of PFAS in drinking water and its sources across BC, the capacity of BC laboratories to test for PFAS, the costs of sampling and testing in different jurisdictions, treatment needs and cost-effective mitigation methods for systems exceeding the proposed Health Canada objective for PFAS, training needs, and implementation best practices.