The Bridge Program is a scholarship-funding and research training program linking the University of British Columbia's faculties of medicine, engineering and interdisciplinary studies.

Our mission is to develop creative evidence-based prevention measures for public, environmental and occupational health problems.

The program is sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. It is affiliated with the UBC Centre for Health and Environment Research.

   Events, Announcements

Bridge this week

Wednesday, February 10, Library Processing Centre Rm 308B:


BRDG 500/600: 1- 2 pm, Research Presentation, Corinne Krentz

BRDG 501/601: 2: 15 - 3:45 pm, In class reviews

Thursday, February 11, 10 - noon, Thesis Defense
Midori Courtice, Library Processing Centre Rm 424. Thesis Topic: Asbestosis & general health among migrant shipbreakers from Northern Bangladesh

Other Seminars and Events

Wednesday, February 10, 2010, noon - 1:30 pm
Cancer Queer: Towards an Elegiac Politics of Disease, Dr. Lochlann Jain, Stanford University, Green College, Coach House.

Friday, February 12, 9 - 10 am, A new approach to valuing states of health using Discrete Choice
Experiments, Nick Bansback, SPPH Rounds, Room 253, James Mather Building, 5804 Fairview Ave

Friday, February 12, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Nuts and Bolts of Protecting Young Workers: Injury prevention and changing the culture of health and safety, Mary Miller, SOEH Seminar Series, Room 491, LPC, 2206 East Mall.

Upcoming events

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
7th Annual Air Quality & Health Workshop, Vancouver

Link to BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network Conference Calendar

Last revised: February 5, 2010