Laura Schummers
ScD
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
CIHR Patient Oriented Research Transition to Leadership Award, Phase 2. Improving reproductive population health through patient-oriented health policy and epidemiological research. PI: L Schummers. $460,000. 2023-2027.
UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty start-up funding. Start-up funds: Improving reproductive population health through health policy and outcomes research. PI: L Schummers. $360,000. 2022-2024.
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Clinical and Translational Seed Grant. Interpregnancy Interval and Pregnancy Outcomes: Defining Optimal Intervals for High-Risk Populations. PI: L Schummers. CoI: J Liauw. $10,000. 2020-2022.
CIHR Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts. Interpregnancy Interval and Pregnancy Outcomes: Defining Optimal Intervals for High-Risk Populations. PI: L Schummers. CoIs: KA Ahrens, JA Hutcheon, E Karacabeyli, J Liauw, WV Norman. $75,000. 2020-2022.
CIHR Patient Oriented Research Transition to Leadership Postdoctoral Fellowship (Phase 1). Examining the effect of Canada's unique medical abortion drug policy on patient abortion access and outcomes. PI: L Schummers. CoIs: B Henry, S Bryan, E Darling, K McGrail, WV Norman. $155,000. 2020-2022.
CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship. Population-based epidemiological analyses to evaluate and inform reproductive health policies in British Columbia. PI: L Schummers. CoIs: B Henry, WV Norman. $155,000. 2018-2020.
2022 Labelle Lecturer, Nov 9 2022. Selected by the Labelle Committee to give the 31st Labelle Lecture for the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University. This lectureship brings a prominent ‘rising star’ in health services research with emerging recognition and an inter-disciplinary approach to research to give a general interest lecture on a topic in the broadly defined areas of health economics and/or health policy. ($2000).
2022 Top 10 Articles of the Year (2021-2022), CIHR Institute for Health Services and Policy Research and the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research. This award recognizes published research that has significantly contributed to the advancement of the field of health services and policy research (HSPR) in Canada. Articles were selected for their relevance to HSPR, as well as for the extent to which they showed a clear impact (or potential impact) on policy, practice, or health outcomes.
2021 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize awarded by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies from the University of British Columbia, March 2022. Each year, two postdoctoral fellows from across the University are awarded this prize in recognition of outstanding research and scholarly contributions while at UBC.
“Best of Three” Oral presentation winner, Annual Clinical and Scientific Conference of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, June 2021: Abortion utilization and safety when mifepristone is available without regulations restricting practice? A population-based study using linked health administrative data from Canada. Of the three top-rated abstracts, selected as the best oral presentation.
2021 Outstanding Achievement by a Postdoctoral Fellow award, BC Children’s Health Research Institute 2020/2021 The award recognizes the outstanding achievement of a postdoctoral fellow whose high academic achievements, personal leadership qualities and demonstrated research ability show promise of the individual becoming a future leader in health research. One achievement award is given per year in each career category (mid-career investigator, early career investigator, postdoctoral fellow, graduate student).
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Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2024 Project Grant competition. Several of our research community members received around $5 million in new research…
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.
Congratulations to the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2023 Project Grant competition. Our research community received around $8 million in new research grants as principal…
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