Research Projects

Healthy aging

Implementation science

Scale-up of health promoting innovations

Adapting effective health promoting innovations for equity deserving groups

Health equity

Equity in implementation science

First Nations students engaged (and/or interested) in community based research, decolonizing practices, and process that support Indigenous authority and jurisdiction are encouraged to connect with Professor Menzies to discuss potential applications to graduate study.  Other students interested in exploring the relations of power and inequality within contemporary capitalist… more

Graduate trainees and post-graduate-level fellows are invited to express their interest in working on two funded studies involving the health of marginalized people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada:

1. The AIDS Care Cohort to evaluate Exposure to Survival Services (ACCESS): This United States National Institutes of Health-funded open observational prospective cohort… more

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Emergency Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis. Objectives: optimizing identification of people at risk for overdose (e.g., emergency department screening) and low-barrier access to harm reduction and life-saving therapies at acute care interfaces. 

Clinical and public health interventions to decrease overdose risk (opioid agonist therapies,… more

Medieval French literature, primarily (but not limited to) narrative literature of the 12th and 13th centuries.

Medievalism in contemporary literature.

Analysis and Diffusions on fractals, Quasisymmetric uniformization, heat kernel estimates, Harnack inequalities.

I am a socio cultural anthropologist, but am not a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology and cannot supervise students in that department. I am a faculty member in the Department of Asian studies and supervise students in the graduate programs in Asian studies. 

planetary health in healthcare

artificial intelligence in medicine and surgery and imaging

Sarcoma fusion oncogene biology, epigenomics and experimental therapeutics;

Cancer biomarker development: in situ multiplex diagnostics, predictive tests, immuno-oncology

Quantitative research using data from the Middle Years Development Instrument and other HELP-surveys. Topics all focus on the development of children and youth and include trajectories of wellbeing over time, associatios between social-emotional competence and academic success, differences in social-emotional and mental wellbeing among population subgroups. Examining aspects of… more

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~ortner/

Machine learning privacy, searchable encryption, anonymous communication systems, differential privacy

I welcome graduate projects in modernism, understood broadly, twentieth-century Anglophone literatures, postcolonial, cultural, and materialist studies, intersectional work in feminism, gender, race, and sexuality, and media and technology studies.

1. Access to urban green and blue spaces of varying sizes and forms

• Research question: How do we connect low-mobility populations (e.g., children, older adults, people with disabilities, low-income people) with diverse urban parks, forests, and waterfronts?
• Skills/interests needed: multidisciplinary interests (environmental justice, urban design and… more

Investigation of protein kinase signalling networks in diverse experimental model systems, including growth factor-treated human cancer cell lines and meiotic maturation of sea star and frog oocytes. Investigations of protein kinase signalling networks in biopsied human tissues from patients with cancer, neurological disorders and diabetes. Development of microarray technology for monitoring… more

See my website for research interests: https://geoffpleiss.com

Dog training; feral rabbit housing; vet service deserts.

Cystic Fibrosis blood biomarker research and development - proteomics and transcriptomics Health outcomes research using the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Registry - clinical epidemiology

Pure mathematics.

Intellectual property and human rights

Rare diseases - validation of disease-causing human variants in animal models

Cleft lip - exploration of the human gene and environmental factors that lead to cleft lip using the chicken embryo model

The molecular basis of the ever-renewing reptilian dentition using the gecko model

Sex differences at the genetic/epigenetic level in early development.

Developmental origin of extraenbryonic tissues and their epigenetic programming

Congenital Heart Defects and confined placental mosaicism

social justice and law, law and development, legal theory, labour and sustainable development, public law

My lab (Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program - https://resp.core.ubc.ca/) is looking for a brilliant graduate student (MSc or PhD) for exciting projects in predictive analytics and decision modeling.

The project is part of the $2M The Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded IMPACT study (… more

History and Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of Nature; Environmental Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy; British Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Science and Technology Studies