The Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) supports research excellence dedicated to improving the health and lives of women and children. WCHRI is the only research institute in Canada to focus on both women* and children’s health across the life course.
WCHRI was founded in 2006 as a collaborative partnership between the University of Alberta, Alberta Health Services, the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, and the Alberta Women’s Health Foundation. Thanks to our funders’ generosity, WCHRI is able to support a broad range of research programs focused on improving health for women and children. Support is offered through research funding and expert research services. WCHRI also invests in the next generation of researchers through graduate and summer studentships, postdoctoral fellowships, research presentations and travel grants.
Our membership is made up of over 400 leading researchers who are passionately committed to women and children’s health and well-being. WCHRI is proud to support the continued growth and success of their research work.
*We use a broad and inclusive definition of women’s health research, incorporating both sex as a biological variable and gender as a social variable, across the life course. We include people assigned female at birth, all people who identify as women (cis and trans inclusive), as well as gender diverse individuals who do not identify as women but who share health challenges in common with women. (from CIHR IGH, 2024)