Research team co-led by nursing faculty wins innovation grant

Research to improve performance measurement and reporting of community-based primary health care received a boost when federal Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq awarded funding to 12 innovation teams. The UBC team, co-led by Associate Prof. Sabrina Wong, in the School of Nursing and Assistant Prof. Kim McGrail, in the School of Population and Public Health, received a $2.4 million grant, co-funded with $1.9 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and $500,000 from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. For more information, click here.