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The interCultural Online Health Network (iCON) is a community-driven health promotion initiative that supports multicultural communities, patients and caregivers across BC to optimize chronic disease prevention and self-management. The interCultural Online health Network (iCON) is a community-driven health promotion initiative that supports multicultural communities, patients and caregivers across BC to optimize chronic disease prevention and self-management. What we do:

Partnership & Collaboration.
- Collaboration with community health care providers, partners from health authorities, community organizations, education institutions, government, and media to promote best practices in chronic disease prevention and management.
- Partnership with volunteers, students and health professional trainees to design and deliver community outreach activities, providing learning opportunities related to delivering culturally competent care. Culturally-tailored health promotion & outreach
- Culturally tailored programming in the community’s native language to improve access to chronic disease management education. iCON hosts skills-building workshops and public health forums on a variety of chronic diseases, promoting health and wellness, chronic disease prevention and empowering patients with information and skills to manage their health.
- Patient education on chronic disease prevention and management with focus on disease awareness and knowledge, prevention and lifestyle modification, risk reduction and treatment options. iCON develops patient resources and information handouts to support patients in their self-management journey and help patients and families navigate the BC health care system. Multi-channel dissemination.
- Health information shared through webcasts, a website (iconproject.org) and through media projects such as community televisions and radio programming to reach community members.
- Health events, information and partner initiatives shared through social media including Facebook and Twitter. Digital literacy to support patient self-management.
- Linking patients with web-based health information and digital tools to support chronic disease self-management.
- Building awareness around and share best practices in using digital tools to support health and wellness goals. Evaluation & Impact.
- Evaluation to track reach and measure program impact on patient activation, behaviour change, health attitudes, knowledge, and skills and barriers to self-care.
- Program assessment to ensure community responsiveness, improvement and excellence.
- Dissemination of program results through knowledge sharing events, publication and participation in conferences.

12/28/2025
12/28/2025

Happy holidays to the UBC community! ❄️ Wishing everyone a joyful season and an inspiring start to 2026 as we look ahead to new opportunities and possibilities. ✨

12/28/2025

From 6 people in a UBC lab to a 600-person global biotech company.

Co-founded by UBC professor Dr. Carl Hansen and alumni Dr. Véronique Lecault, AbCellera has become one of Canada’s fastest-growing biotech companies—creating jobs, advancing made-in-Canada innovation, and helping deliver some of the world’s first COVID-19 antibody treatments.

Discover how a UBC spin-off powered by alumni talent is pushing B.C.’s economy forward: https://bit.ly/44omYrD

iCON-VCH Indigenous Health Round A Developmental Approach to Working with Trauma: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for C...
12/17/2025

iCON-VCH Indigenous Health Round
A Developmental Approach to Working with Trauma: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for Culturally Relevant Health Care Responses
Date and Time: Mon, Jan 19th, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. PT
In this Indigenous health round, Dr. Ferguson will share some of her work in trauma healing as a clinician, educator, and researcher.
Speaker: Dr. Alanaise Ferguson
Anishinaabe Psychologist and Professor, University of British Columbia Okanagan

Learn more: https://indigenous.iconproject.org/

12/17/2025
12/12/2025

Congratulations to UBC clinical assistant professor Dr. Kevin Afra on receiving the 2025 Sherrold Haddad Excellence in Medicine Award! https://bit.ly/4oMISMo 🎉

The award from Surrey Hospitals Foundation recognizes Dr. Afra’s leadership in advancing antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases research and clinical trials in the Fraser.

By expanding clinical trials capacity and training the next generation of clinician-scientists, Dr. Afra is helping to shape the future of infectious disease research and care in B.C. The award will power his groundbreaking work on the A-DONUT Trial that seeks to improve care for older adults with delirium.

「安康」国语健康讲座 “如何识别可靠的线上健康资讯” 将于明天(11月26日)上午10时30分举行，费用全免。欢迎前往 South Vancouver Neighbourhood House (地址: 6470 Victoria Dr, V...
11/26/2025

「安康」国语健康讲座 “如何识别可靠的线上健康资讯” 将于明天(11月26日)上午10时30分举行，费用全免。欢迎前往 South Vancouver Neighbourhood House (地址: 6470 Victoria Dr, Vancouver, BC) 参与，无须登记。

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「安康」今天下午將於列治文加愛中心舉辦 “了解藥劑師新增的專業範疇” 講座，費用全免，歡迎致電 604-241-8222 登記。講座嘉賓：黃小驊 Jacky Huang，註冊藥劑師社區伙伴: 中僑互助會 ICSS了解更多: https://...
11/13/2025

「安康」今天下午將於列治文加愛中心舉辦 “了解藥劑師新增的專業範疇” 講座，費用全免，歡迎致電 604-241-8222 登記。
講座嘉賓：黃小驊 Jacky Huang，註冊藥劑師
社區伙伴: 中僑互助會 ICSS
了解更多: https://loom.ly/0xv4MtM

「安康」講座 : 了解藥劑師新增的專業範疇學習目標：- 藥劑師的擴展服務- 在家中及旅行時管理慢性病藥物的重要性- 如何管理藥物以準備手術登記請電: 604-241-8222了解更多: https://iconproject.org/ ...
11/11/2025

「安康」講座 : 了解藥劑師新增的專業範疇
學習目標：
- 藥劑師的擴展服務
- 在家中及旅行時管理慢性病藥物的重要性
- 如何管理藥物以準備手術

登記請電: 604-241-8222
了解更多: https://iconproject.org/

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Lest we forget.
11/11/2025

Lest we forget.

11/10/2025

Led by Dr. Kendall Ho, Dr. Anurag Singh, Dr. Clare Ardern, Derek Thompson, Dr. Helen Novak Lauscher, Joan Assali, John Grogan, Dr. John Pawlovich, Sandra Harris, Dr. Sonya Cressman and co-facilitated by Alex Haagaard, Minika Chu, Nazia Nadir Shah, Pooja Ramachandran, Dr. Taru Manyanga, Tianna Magel, Trinity Truong. The workshop focused on sharing experiences with AI in health, discussing hopes and fears, and exploring how the health system can partner with communities to optimize AI use.
Thank you to everyone who participated and made this a meaningful and engaging experience! Stay tuned: www.aiteccc.ubc.ca

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The interCultural Online health Network (iCON) is a community-driven health promotion initiative that supports multicultural communities, patients and caregivers across BC to optimize chronic disease prevention and self-management. iCON is based in the Faculty of Medicine’s Digital Emergency Medicine in the University of British Columbia. What we do: Partnership & Collaboration - Collaboration with community health care providers, partners from health authorities, community organizations, education institutions, government, and media to promote best practices in chronic disease prevention and management. - Partnership with volunteers, students and health professional trainees to design and deliver community outreach activities, providing learning opportunities related to delivering culturally competent care. Culturally-tailored health promotion & outreach - Culturally tailored programming in the community’s native language to improve access to chronic disease management education. iCON hosts skills-building workshops and public health forums on a variety of chronic diseases, promoting health and wellness, chronic disease prevention and empowering patients with information and skills to manage their health. - Patient education on chronic disease prevention and management with focus on disease awareness and knowledge, prevention and lifestyle modification, risk reduction and treatment options. iCON develops patient resources and information handouts to support patients in their self-management journey and help patients and families navigate the BC health care system. Multi-channel dissemination - Health information shared through webcasts, a website (iconproject.org) and through media projects such as community televisions and radio programming to reach community members. - Health events, information and partner initiatives shared through social media including Facebook and Twitter. Digital literacy to support patient self-management - Linking patients with web-based health information and digital tools to support chronic disease self-management. - Building awareness around and share best practices in using digital tools to support health and wellness goals. Evaluation & Impact - Evaluation to track reach and measure program impact on patient activation, behaviour change, health attitudes, knowledge, and skills and barriers to self-care. - Program assessment to ensure community responsiveness, improvement and excellence. - Dissemination of program results through knowledge sharing events, publication and participation in conferences.