Launching the 2012 NLCAHR Awards

The funding competition under NLCAHR’s regular annual awards program is now open for the 2012-2013 cycle. 

Development Grants of up to $10,000 per project are available to assist in creating effective research teams in Newfoundland and Labrador that are capable of obtaining funding from national and international research granting agencies.
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Research Talks: Health Worker Migration

Dr. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Professor, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa and CIHR Research Chair in Health Human Resource Policy will visit St. John’s on April 24 to present the inaugural lecture in Research Talks, a series of free public lectures featuring leading Canadian researchers, hosted by the Newfoundland and Labrad
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Healthy Aging Funding Recipients Announced

The Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research congratulates this year's successful applicants for funding under the NL Healthy Aging Research Program (NL-HARP).  We would also like to thank all who applied under the program, which is now in its fourth year.  NL-HARP was designed to facilitate research on aging and seniors in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Muscle loss and healthy aging: Globe & Mail features NLCAHR funded study

Geoff Power, the recipient of a Doctoral Dissertation Award funded by the Newfoundland and Labrador Healthy Aging Program and administered by NLCAHR, recently had his research featured in a Globe and Mail article about the effects of exercise in "using or losing" motor units in our muscles as we age. Mr. Power is a graduate of Memorial University's Faculty of
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Eating Issues, Disordered Eating and Body Image: New Publications from our Research Affinity Group

In the January 2012 issue of ACCESS, the newsletter of the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador (ARNNL), researchers Pamela Ward, Joanne Simms and Denise English published an article about an initiative called the Eating Disorder Interprofessional Community Capacity Building (EDICCB) program.  This program involved effective collaboration betwe
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