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Biography:
As the Grants Facilitator for the Faculty of Health Sciences, Cecilia Kalaw is responsible for liaising with granting agencies, working with the Office of Research Services in identifying new research funding opportunities, and working with faculty members to develop research proposals for submission to national and provincial funding agencies such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, MSFHR, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Cecilia Kalaw has fifteen years of experience in grant writing and project development in non-profit, governmental, and academic settings. She has had direct experience as a grants program officer for the provincial government and as a grant writer for various non-profit agencies. She has worked at UBC as a health researcher for the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and the School of Nursing. Most recently, grant writing and facilitation was part of her role as the research coordinator for the Nursing and Health Behaviour Research Unit and NEXUS, a multidisciplinary research unit dedicated to researching the social contexts of health behaviour. She has expertise in community-based research, qualitative methods, gender analyses and tobacco research and has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in these areas.
Cecilia has a Master of Arts in Education from Simon Fraser University. Prior to her work in health research, Cecilia worked on education and policy development related to multiculturalism, human rights, and immigrant settlement and integration. She has a long standing interest in social inequalities and health disparities and public health policy development.
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