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BC Women’s Hospital & Health
Centre has hosted the British
Columbia Centre of Excellence
for Women’s Health for ten years, and
promoted its incredible contribution
to the landscape of women’s health
research in BC. The BCCEWH has
made our hospital and its programs
stronger, along with contributing to
the province, nation and indeed, the
globe.
The Centre has excelled at its mandate—
growing its small beginning
into a thriving enterprise, accruing
funding for many, many projects and
leading the way in social determinants
and health systems research on
women’s health. In my view, its ability
to create innovative partnerships
with a range of communities and sectors
has been its key to success. As a
result of its open collaborative model,
the BCCEWH has not only produced
research, policy advice, better practice
guidelines, and information that
is appreciated worldwide, but has
created receptivity for research and
new information on women’s health.
This has produced many concrete
improvements in the health of girls
and women.
For example, the BCCEWH has
brought a research and evaluation
lens to BC Women’s programs—inpatient,
ambulatory, and provincial.
It has assisted with data collection
and produced new knowledge in conjunction
with practitioners in a range
of our programs, such as the Aurora
Centre, a treatment centre for women
with addictions; the Fir Square Combined
Care Unit, an in-patient unit for
pregnant women who use substances;
the Eating Disorders program;
Osteofit and the Osteoporosis Program;
and the Breast Health Program,
among others. The Centre has offered
the leadership and perspective required
to influence health planning
and women’s health strategies across
British Columbia on issues ranging
from bone health to heart health to
tobacco control.
Together, the BCCEWH and BC
Women’s have collaborated on a
range of important processes in
British Columbia. For example, we
worked together to craft a Provincial
Women’s Health Strategy, to coordinate
the Maternity Care Enhancement
Project, and to develop training
for health planners in the application
of Gender-Based Analysis. All of this
benefits BC Women’s and the women
of BC.
Since 2001, under the leadership
of the Executive Director of the
BCCEWH, BC Women’s has been
inspired to develop our own research
strategy, focused on expanding its
clinical research capacity to directly
improve our patient care. The
strategic planning process that took
place between 2001 and 2006 paved
the way for our new Women’s Health
Research Institute.
I am thrilled to be congratulating
the British Columbia Centre of Excellence
for Women’s Health on its ‘ten
years of excellence ’. This anniversary
also marks ten years of a productive
and exciting collaboration between
BC Women’s and the Centre.
— Elizabeth Whynot, MD
President, BC Women’s Hospital &
Health Centre
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