Roberta Ellis Award for Excellence in the Study and Practice of Occupational and Environmental Health
April 2017: PWHS and WorkSafeBC were proud to present the inaugural Roberta Ellis Award for Excellence in the Study and Practice of Occupational and Environmental Health to Nicole Boeder, a second year UBC MSc student in occupational and environmental health at WorkSafeBC’s Research Day on April 7.
WorkSafeBC Research Day
April 2017: On Friday April 8, WorkSafeBC is hosting a Research Day, open to all WorkSafeBC staff and management, with the goal of getting non-scientist research users excited about the innovative research WorkSafeBC supports.
WorkSafeBC Interorganization Committee Conference
April 2017: PWHS research assistant and MSc graduate Niloufar Saffari and Co-Director Chris McLeod presented the results of Saffari’s thesis examining differences in disability duration after a work injury for immigrant and Canadian-born workers to the WorkSafeBC Interorganization Committee (IOC) Conference on April 6, 2017.
Immigration Status and Work Disability Duration in British Columbia
Thesis
Saffari N.
Vancouver: The University of British Columbia; 2016.
Download a research brief describing the thesis findings