Grants
2025-2026: Mowafaghian Child Health Award, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, $15,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Connecting the Dots: Building an Equity-Focused Registry for Youth Social Connection Strategies in BC School Communities
2024-2025: BC Ministry of Health, Research and Technology Branch, Strategic Innovation Division, $50,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Climate anxiety and grief are on the rise among youth. What practices, actions and/or treatments are effective for reducing climate related anxiety and grief experienced by youth?
2024-2025: Mowafaghian Child Health Award, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, $15,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: The Youth Development Instrument (YDI) Ambassador Project
2024-2025: Population and Public Health Division, BC Centre for Disease Control, $48,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Phase 2 Mental Health in Schools: Expanding Program Evidence and Evaluation
2023-2024: Population and Public Health Division, BC Centre for Disease Control, $50,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Mapping mental health promotion initiatives in BC to identify gaps and opportunities for a BCCDC PPH Mental Health Promotion portfolio.
2023-2024: Population and Public Health Division, BC Centre for Disease Control, $40,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Environmental scan of provincial models for public health support of schools strategies to promote student mental health and well-being
2023-2024: CIHR – Healthy Youth Catalyst Grant, $100,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: The Youth Development Instrument (YDI) Ambassador Project: A youth participatory action research initiative
2022-2025: CIHR Project Grant, Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, $554,624. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: The Youth Development Instrument: engaging stakeholders and linking data to monitor and promote youth mental health and well-being trajectories beyond the pandemic
2022-2025: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership, $200,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Partnering to build a data-driven toolkit of youth well-being strategies for schools and communities
2022-2023: Mitacs Accelerate Proposal, $60,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Improving child and youth well-being in the COVID-19 recovery phase in British Columbia
2021-2023: COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF)/Public Health Agency of Canada, $2,600,000. Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Project: COVID-19 Vaccination among People Living with HIV: Immunogenicity, Effectiveness, and Safety
2021-2022: CIHR, $150,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Impact of Social Determinants of Mental Health on Child and Parent Risk, Resilience and Support Access in the COVID-19 Era: A Nested Mixed-Methods Study of Short and Long-Term Outcomes
2021-2022: Mowafaghian Child Health Award, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, $15,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Developing a Youth Well-being Index for the Youth Development Instrument
2021-2023: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant, $50,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: #YourStoryYourVoice: partnering with youth to drive provincial youth well-being initiatives
2020-2022: The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research, $40,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: There is no health without mental health: characterizing the burden of severe and persistent mental illness among people living with HIV and HCV
2019-2021: Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, $20,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Using mobile technologies to enhance understanding of successful mental health trajectories from youth to young adulthood
2019-2021: Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines, Simon Fraser University, $5,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Evaluation of a short intervention to promote happiness and mental wellness for undergraduate students
2019-2021: SFU Office of Vice-President Research/BCCDC, $250,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Project: Predicting successful well-being trajectories from childhood to emerging adulthood
2018-2020: CIHR, $1,197,225. Role: Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator: Christina Greenaway. Project: Achieving hepatitis C elimination in Canada; addressing the needs of the diverse groups at risk
Honours &
Awards
2025: Mowafaghian Child Health Award, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
2024: Mowafaghian Child Health Award, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
2023: Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow by the US National Academy of Sciences
2022: Simon Fraser University Faculty of Health Sciences Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award
2022-2023: CIHR Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies: Early Career Investigator Prize ($100,000)
2020: Mowafaghian Child Health Award, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
2015: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
2011: New Investigator Award, Canadian Association for HIV Research
