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BC-CfE’s COAST Study hosts Café Scientifique event on climate change and mental health

19 January 2021

The BC-CfE COAST team invites you to an exciting virtual Café Scientifique titled “Climate Impacts on the Mental Health and Wellness of British Columbians” on February 1st, 2021. This event represents a collaboration between the BC-CfE, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, and has been generously funded by the Pacific Institute of Climate Solutions.

Teams from across BC join the BOOST QI Network Annual Congress virtually

22 December 2020

The Best-practices in Oral Opioid AgoniSt Therapy (BOOST) Annual Congress was held last month amidst the dual public health emergencies of the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid overdose crisis. Presenters at the congress shared how their teams are adapting their practices for the pandemic, how healthcare teams can better integrate the voices of families of those with opioid use disorder (OUD), and also shared ideas on how to support and improve retention for clients on opioid agonist therapy (OAT).

New BC-CfE research improves our knowledge and validation of the HIV reservoir

18 December 2020

A recently published paper, in the scientific journal Virus Evolution, by a BC-CfE doctoral student provides a way for phylogenetic and other molecular studies of HIV reservoirs to be validated. This vital research will help in the understanding of the dynamics of the HIV-1 reservoir, thus bringing us closer to a durable HIV-1 cure

Dr. Julio Montaner profiled in BIV’s LifeSciences magazine

27 November 2020

Business in Vancouver’sLifesciencesmagazine recently profiled BC-CfE Executive Director & Physician-in-Chief Dr. Julio Montaner. In the profile, the history of Dr. Montaner’s career is traced from his arrival in Vancouver from Argentina in the 1980s, to the creation of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), up to the global spread of the cost-saving strategy of Treatment as Prevention®¨ (TasP®¨) .

BOOST and Coast Mental Health Collaboration Improves Lives of Those Living With OUD

24 November 2020

More than 1,300 people have died from illicit drug poisoning in BC so far this year. Some months saw a death toll greater than double the same month the previous year, and June alone had 183 people die of an overdose. This was the highest monthly overdose related death toll in BC’s history.

BC-CfE’s Dr. Jeffrey Joy’s vital COVID-19 research published in Science

30 September 2020

The BC-CfE’s Dr. Jeffrey Joy has joined an international team of researchers in the fight against COVID-19. Dr. Joy, a Senior Research Scientist specializing in evolutionary genetics, molecular epidemiology and bioinformatics at the BC-CfE, is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.