UBC's Jeannie Shoveller appointed Chair of CIHR's Governing Council

June 5, 2019

Dr. Jeannie Shoveller was appointed as Chairperson of CIHR’s Governing Council, having first been appointed to the Council in 2017. She is a professor at the University of British Columbia, the research director of the BC Centre on Substance Use, and the Associate Director of the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity. Dr. Shoveller is the first woman to serve as Chairperson in CIHR's history.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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