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Revealing Systemic Racism and Inequalities in BC: Using disaggregated demographic and race-based data

June 24, 2021May 20, 2021 by Jeff Mijo-Burch

Video thumbnail showing a Zoom presenter sharing a Powerpoint slide. The title on the slide reads"Revealing Systemic Racism and Inequalities in BC: Using disaggregated demographic and race-based data"

On March 17, the Community Health and Social Innovation Hub (CHASI) partnered with BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (BCOHRC), UFV’s Race and Antiracism Network, and the South Asian Studies Institute to present “Revealing Systemic Racism and Inequalities in BC: Using disaggregated demographic and race-based data.” This is a recording of that virtual conversation … Read more

Turning Knowledge into Action: UFV’s CHASI Hub Reinventing Community Research

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 by Jeff Mijo-Burch

Screenshot of Martha Dow sharing a PowerPoint slide, which is titled "How CHASI works." It shows a diagram that presents CHASI's lens as knowledge mobilization, equity, and access, and its model as community responsive, student development, and interdisciplinary.

On February 2, 2021, CHASI director Dr. Martha Dow shared a presentation titled Turning Knowledge into Action: UFV’s CHASI Hub Reinventing Community Research as part of SCIENCETALKS‘ Virtual Science Café series.

CHASI’s Former Student Research Assistants and Interns

February 22, 2023January 11, 2021 by Jeff Mijo-Burch

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In addition to our current team and faculty associates, CHASI has collaborated with a number of past student research assistants and interns, and we thank them for their impactful contributions to our research. Research assistant: Gina Dhinsa Gina recently graduated from UFV with a bachelor of arts in global development studies and a minor in … Read more

CHASI Faculty Associates

January 4, 2023September 17, 2020 by Greg Laychak

Photos of some of CHASI's research associates in a collage.

The Community Health and Social Innovation (CHASI) Hub is privileged to work with the following UFV faculty members Dr. Satwinder Kaur Bains Dr. Sarah Beaulieu Dr. Shelley Canning Dr. Keith Thor Carlson Dr. Cherie Enns Dr. Luisa Giles Dr. Geetanjali Gill Dr. Sharon Gillies Dr. Lesley Jessiman Dr. Karun Karki Dr. Kathy Keiver Dr. Iris … Read more

CHASI COVID-19 Workspace Safety Plan

January 15, 2021September 16, 2020 by Greg Laychak

After reviewing the operational activities in the Community Health and Social Innovation Hub’s workspace, CHASI has developed a COVID-19 Workspace Safety Plan to ensure effective controls are in place to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. The following document introduces CHASI’s operations, provides the regulatory context of the safety plan, a risk assessment, and the means … Read more

CHASI Hub Partnerships

October 15, 2021August 11, 2020 by Greg Laychak

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Partnerships The Hub has developed multiple formal and informal collaborative relationships with communities, government, and industry. These partnerships are captured in MOUs, participation as advisory committee members, collaborators, and knowledge transfer/integration partners. The primary focus of these relationships and the work of the Hub is to support research, support the development, implementation and evaluation of … Read more

A Message from the Director, Community Health and Social Innovation Hub

January 15, 2021July 21, 2020 by Anthony Lepki

Our team at the Hub is incredibly excited to be engaged with our partners in what we consider critical work as our communities grapple with the meaning of and access to individual and collective well-being. As an educator, the social, political, and economic challenges and possibilities of this enterprise during such unsettling and difficult times … Read more