Category: Blog Posts

7 Ways to Keep You and Your Loved Ones Safe This Holiday Season

Respiratory illness season, winter conditions, and more can make staying safe during the holidays more challenging. But there’s much you can do to Activate Health and keep yourself and your loved ones safe this holiday season. Read our seven ways!

A TikTok tutorial, data discussion, and a Big Banana: The 2022 Canadian Injury Prevention Conference

The BCCDC Foundation was pleased to be sponsor of the 2022 Canadian Injury Prevention Conference. In this guest blog post, read about the highlights of the conference, and the positive impact it will make for British Columbians.

Your Health, Our Commitment: Our New Campaign to Support Pandemic Recovery, Strengthen Public Health, and Build Resilient Communities For All

Our new campaign “Your Health, Our Commitment” is a call to move beyond pandemic response towards a brighter, more equitable future for all. Click over to learn more, and how you can support this important campaign.

The Impact of Activate Health in 2021-22

Through Activate Health, we call on you to be a health ambassador for your community! Last year, through our blog posts, we wove many Activate Health principles into the conversation. Read on for highlights of some of our most impactful messages last year, and why they are very much still relevant to the health, resiliency, and recovery of our province today.

Help Improve Public Health in BC: Join Our Board of Directors!

Apply to join our Board of Directors and help make a positive impact on the health of British Columbians. Read our blog post to learn more about this exciting opportunity, including how to apply!

We BELIEVE, so we pause…

Transparency is one of our values, and this is us being transparent with you. Leadership is also one of our values, and our ED believes in modelling through honesty and openness. We invite you to come behind the scenes with us as she shares more about why we felt this was an important message.

Monitoring the Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines in British Columbia

We’re pleased to be funding and supporting groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness research coming out of the BC Centre for Disease Control. Read more about this novel research, what early work and recent findings have shown, how critical ongoing VE monitoring is, and why it’s imperative that we continue to fund and support research like this in order to ensure everyone is protected as we look ahead and learn to live safely with COVID-19.

Vaccines Work: 5 Ways to Activate Health

Vaccines work, saving millions of lives each year, yet they can easily be taken for granted. Since vaccines are so important, and it happens to be National Immunization Awareness Week, check out our blog post for how vaccines work, as well as five vaccine-specific ways you can Activate Health this month.

We Keep Growing: BCCDC Foundation Welcomes Two New Team Members!

We’re pleased to welcome two new staff to our growing team! Learn about Tracy and Maddie, and why they wanted to come work at the BCCDC Foundation, and the positive impact they hope to make in their roles.

Interview: Peer Health Mentors Work to Improve Connection to Hepatitis C Virus Treatment After Release from Provincial Prisons in BC

In a follow-up to her last guest blog post introducing Test, Link, Call Project (TLC), Dr Sofia Bartlett returns to share an interview she recently had with Peer Health Mentors Pam, Cheri, and Tammy at Unlocking the Gates Society (UTG).