Janet Mah
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Registered Psychologist, Infant Psychiatry, BC Children's Hospital
BCCHF Fund, Mah Lab Clinical Research Program, KRZ75151
2024-2028 CIHR Project Grant, Cultural Considerations to Improve Treatment Engagement, Retention, and Satisfaction among Asian Canadian Families of Children with ADHD, Co-PI
2023-2025 New Frontiers in Research Fund, Promoting emotion regulation using smart-tech for parents of children with ADHD, Co-I
2023-2025 SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Well-being and Vicarious Resilience in Healthcare Professionals: Cultural Considerations, Co-I
2023-2024 MSHRBC C2 Award, Rising Up: Collaborating with Chinese families and communities to promote mental health literacy, PI
2021-2022 CIHR Operating Grant, How is COVID-19 continuing to impact children with and without ADHD, Co-I
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Congratulations to BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2023 Project Grant competition. Our research community received around $11 million in new research grants as principal investigators or co-investigators.
Dr. Bob McMahon, an investigator at BC Children’s Hospital, co-dean of the upcoming Mini Med School, the LEEF B.C. Chair for the Reduction of Youth Violence at Simon Fraser University, and a psychologist, wishes he’d had the opportunity to attend a similar health science education program when he was a teenager in Richmond, Virginia.
Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant: Understanding and mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, youth and families in Canada.
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