National award celebrates accomplishments in patient-oriented research – The Ring

April 24, 2017

Being praised by community research partners as a “game changer” might be all the confirmation a researcher needs to know her work is having a vital impact on the community.

But a national award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) makes for pretty great affirmation, too, as does the $100,000 research prize that Charlotte Loppie’s research partners—Indigenous women across Canada living with HIV/AIDS—are already happily contemplating how to help her spend.

Loppie, a professor in UVic’s School of Public Health and Social Policy and director of the Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement—is one of three Canadian researchers who will be awarded a prestigious Gold Leaf Prize from CIHR at a May 16 ceremony in Ottawa.

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