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D O C T O R S I N
T H E N E W S
First awards
under healthy aging program
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Dr. Godwin Marshall |
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Seven grants and
fellowships were recently awarded under the Healthy Aging Research
Program, established by the provincial government and administered
through the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health
Sciences.
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Seven awards have been made in the
first round of grants and fellowships under the Healthy Aging
Research Program (NL-HARP). This program was established by the
provincial government in 2008 and is administered through the
Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Sciences (NLCAHR).
The aim of the program is to provide the
province’s research community with incentives and opportunities to focus
their attention on research questions related to healthy aging in this
province.
Dr. Marshall Godwin, director of
the Primary Healthcare Research Unit in the Faculty of Medicine, has
been awarded a $40,000 grant for the project titled “Assessing Criterion
Validity and Developing Population Norms for the Simple Lifestyle
Indicator Questionnaire in the Elderly.”
Two NL-HARP master’s research grants in
the amount of $5,000 each were awarded. Fang Liu, Community
Health and Humanities, is conducting research on measuring the health
status of aging population with disabilities in Newfoundland and
Labrador. Ellen Haskell, Department of Sociology, is researching
the social organization of the RV sub-culture.
Geoff Power, School of Human
Kinetics and Recreation, will receive a NL-HARP Doctoral Dissertation
Award in the amount of $24,000 plus $6,000 research allowance. His
research is on muscle fatigue resistance in old and very old women.
Kate Dupuis, PhD candidate at the
University of Toronto, was awarded a NL-HARP Post-Doctoral Fellowship in
the amount of $40,000 plus $10,000 research allowance. She is
investigating the compensatory use of emotion as context in younger and
older adults.
Two NL-HARP seed grants were awarded.
Dr. Wendy Young, Canada Research Chair in Healthy Aging, will
receive $20,000 for her work on development an age-friendly communities
research team. Dr. Victor Maddalena, Community Health and
Humanities, will receive $20,000 for his research on palliative and end
of life care in Newfoundland’s deaf community.
A new round of healthy aging research
funding opportunities will be launched in June 2009 through the NLCAHR.
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