March 2011

The Partnership has been renewed for a 5-year term for a total of $1.3 million. This funding continues a research partnership that began in 2005 between WorkSafeBC (the Workers’ Compensation Board of BC) and the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research.

“In the past six years the Partnership has helped us establish, discover, explore and confirm information pertaining to work and health, by using innovative research methods, data linkage techniques, and approaches for addressing our questions. Their results have generated information that has been readily available to WorkSafeBC to solve identified issues and contribute to a better understanding of the causes of work-related diseases and injuries. The WorkSafeBC-CHSPR Partnership is looking ahead to another five years of exciting research work,” said Roberta Ellis, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, WorkSafeBC.

Partnership research addresses current and emerging issues of work-related health in British Columbia. The partnership is also the successful recipient of other competitive funding and has taken the lead in work-related health research by developing and promoting the use of routinely collected health and compensation data from multiple sources via Population Data BC.