Just wrote a new piece on #SocialPrescribing for the @cspsc.ca Student Blog. Check it out:

Excited to share that I’ll be starting my MSc in Health Sciences @sfu.ca studying #SocialPrescribing this fall. I’m really grateful for the mentors, collaborators, and communities who’ve supported me along the way. Special thanks to @nurselillian.bsky.social, @idea.nursing.ubc.ca, and @cspsc.ca.

"Now is the time for reconciliation, not unilateral decisions, as the premier has continued to do" Huy’wu’qw Shana Thomas (Laxele’wuts’aat), First Nations Summit Task Group and hereditary Chief of Lyackson

New integrative review on community-based #SocialPrescribing in Nova Scotia, co-authored by CSPSC members Sophie Bezanson and Laura Colford @dalhousie.bsky.social, highlights SP implementation facilitators and barriers:

“The first task of the doctor is therefore political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government.” — Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (1963)

New on our blog: making #SocialPrescribing accessible for autistic people 📝 Learn about our latest resource, co-produced with @autistica.org.uk & autistic adults, caregivers of autistic people, & social prescribing professionals. sbbresearch.org/making-socia...

My conversation with health policy PhD candidate Le-Tien Bhaskar on episode one of Social Rx, a podcast on #SocialPrescribing by @cspsc.ca, is now live! Give it a listen on your commute home tonight 😁

Stephen Lewis was a democratic socialist who never stopped demanding a better world for all. How proud he must have been to see @avilewis.ca step into NDP leadership in his final days. May he rest in power.

Congrats to @t-tsang.bsky.social on her appointment as Executive Lead and Scientific Director of the AI Hub at @vchresearch.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the integration of responsible AI into care delivery and research to improve population health.

Excited to share that I’ll be hosting @cspsc.ca’s new podcast, Social Rx, launching Thursday, April 2. Our first episode features Le-Tien Bhaskar, MPH, a health policy PhD candidate and co-founder of CSPSC. Click the notification bell on YouTube to get notified when it goes live:

Congratulations to @avilewis.ca on being elected as NDP’s new leader. We need bold leadership to rein in developing AI and fight for working Canadians in times like these.

Missed the CSPSC #SocialPrescribing Day 2026 Celebration? Check out the full recording below with presentations from @cisp-icps.bsky.social and our members (Tara, Azeria, Nikoo, HanShu, Élyse):

I was explaining how a scoping review works to a group of high schoolers visiting @idea.nursing.ubc.ca for the week, and at one point I showed them the search strategy that I’m struggling to translate and said “this is Google search on steroids” lol.

What an eye opening talk on AI by @karenhao.bsky.social at UBC. I’ll admit I had zero clue about the deeply disturbing nature of LLM content moderation, and how Open AI contracted out these traumatizing tasks involving repeated exposure to extremely graphic content to workers in LMICs like Kenya…

What if your doctor could prescribe a walking group or a museum visit instead of just medication? Our first Student Blog explores how #SocialPrescribing could support student wellbeing on post-secondary campuses.

March is recognized as #BisexualHealthAwarenessMonth and focuses on the specific health disparities, particularly mental health, faced by the #bisexual+ community. Research shows that bi+ individuals experience higher rates of mental health challenges than their gay, lesbian, or heterosexual peers.

My 12-year old daughters donated one of their favourite stuffies for me to leave at the memorial in Tumbler Ridge. It’s heartbreaking just to think of them not coming home safely from school today and every day.

At yesterday’s CIHR Implementation Science Teams Networking Forum, @nurselillian.bsky.social shared how our Learning Health System partnership with @vchhealthcare.bsky.social is improving dementia transitions through a Learning Community. Learn more here: idea.nursing.ubc.ca/2025/02/21/b...

I applaud the Government of Manitoba’s decision to seize this private long-term care home in Winnipeg. Provinces should 100% be using their expropriation powers for public good in cases like this.

Frontline workers are holding our crumbling healthcare system on their shoulders. Should they choose to strike, I’ll be there on the picket line with them. Solidarity forever. #bcpoli

Sad to see that ABC once again voted against being a Living Wage certified employer

Explore this webinar by the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health on exploring interventions for social isolation and loneliness in older adults Jan 14, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 pm EST | Register here: ow.ly/4KZR50XSyc5

We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow with a computer science or engineering background to lead the technical development and real-world implementation of autonomous mobile robot assistants in long-term care settings. Learn more and apply: www.postdocs.ubc.ca/ad/58967

Happy Holidays from CSPSC! Wishing you warmth, rest, and community connection as we head into 2026 🩵✨

Pseudoscientific grifters love claiming they’ll “heal your root causes” when they’re really selling unregulated supplements and expensive protocols. Meanwhile, real root causes (social determinants of health) exist: income, housing, food security, social connection, transportation…

This is a really important proposal from local food justice organizer Ian Marcuse. Save Sunrise Food Market! www.vancouverfoodjustice.ca/latest-news/... #vanpoli

Left the @COPEVancouver.bsky.social holiday party tonight feeling energized. This was my first COPE event! I’m so grateful for the warm welcome and the conversations with folks organizing across the city. Excited to keep learning and showing up 🌹

Storms are once again placing significant strain on BC communities and compounding the long-term impacts of past flood events. As local govs respond, we're calling for sustained funding and support to recover & invest in long-term flood risk mitigation. www.ubcm.ca/about-ubcm/l...

New space, same mission. We can’t wait to welcome you into our new home on the fourth floor of the UBC Gateway Building as we continue advancing dementia and aging care through #PatientOrientedResearch.

Heading to Dr. Yeeun Archer Lee’s talk on #SocialConnection at Trinity Western University today! Grateful to have just joined Yeeun’s team as a research assistant to help turn knowledge into action.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, I’m absolutely devastated by the Tai Po apartment fire that has killed 55 and displaced thousands. 36% of residents in this public housing estate are older adults (65+), many with limited mobility. Thinking of the seniors, families, and kaifongs tonight.

COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass. Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.

New qualitative study coming out of @oxprimarycare.bsky.social explored factors surrounding #SocialPrescribing link worker retention in the UK. As a community connector in Canada, I see similar ambiguities here at home.

If you haven’t already, make sure you subscribe to @medsky.social! It’s a Bluesky network and labeler for healthcare folks that adds little topic labels (like “Primary Care” and “Public Health”) under your name. You can DM them and they’ll help you get started!

So proud to contribute to the Canadian arm of the IAIC study on perceptions of aging and aging well with colleagues from @idea.nursing.ubc.ca. Great to see @nurselillian.bsky.social repping 🇨🇦 to share our results in Singapore.

New blog post on Bioethics Today by Hana Abbasian and Perisa Ashar responds to our recent LOVOT reflection paper, raising ethical questions about #AlgorithmicIntimacy and #EmotionalAccountability when using social robots in dementia care.

Featured in Canadian Healthcare Technology, a new study by VCHRI researcher Dr. Lillian Hung reveals how accessible, AI-enabled robot companions foster emotional engagement & social connection for residents of long-term care homes: ow.ly/gHZ850XnXP5

New #nursesky pub alert! Our research team at @idea.nursing.ubc.ca (led by @nurselillian.bsky.social) captured perspectives of people living with dementia and family partners on the potential, limitations, and ethics of implementing #LOVOT in long-term care homes:

There are higher priorities for 50$million Vancouver tax dollars. Like, housing. And schools. And parks.

Vancouver has a councillor who can’t even vote in Vancouver—but that’s fine with Ken Sim’s ABC majority. If you don’t live with the consequences, you shouldn’t write the rules.

Great week of learning and connecting at #CAG_2025 in Montréal with @nurselillian.bsky.social and the @idea.nursing.ubc.ca team. Presented posters on a seated dance pilot in LTC and a scoping review on social support for 2S/LGBTQ+ older adults in Canada :)

Great discussion (and pizza) at @agingsmart.bsky.social’s Lunch & Learn on #SocialPrescribing and social supports for older adults in rural Canada with Prof. Maureen Ashe.

Pop-up roller skating rink near the Chelsea section of the High Line celebrating LGBTQ+ activists like Marsha P. Johnson

Proud moment today! Our research assistant @jeffrey.cspsc.ca and patient partner Lynn Jackson presented our poster “Co-Designing Immersive Virtual Reality With Indigenous Communities” at the TWU CREATE Conference 2025.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Thanks for raising this important point, @evafain.bsky.social. Our study at @idea.nursing.ubc.ca explored older adults’ experiences w/ social robots, co-created with people with lived experience, to understand how they may support emotional and social wellbeing (commenting in a personal capacity):

Today is #WorldAlzheimersDay. At the UBC IDEA Lab, we believe our work matters because people living with dementia matter. Through co-created research, we’re working toward a kinder, more compassionate future for dementia care 💜

🤖 A new study led by VCHRI researcher Dr. Lillian Hung reveals how accessible, AI-enabled robot companions foster emotional engagement & social connection for residents of long-term care homes:

Researchers quantified what people with lived experience have been saying for years: street sweeps harm people, increasing their risk of violence and overdose. My latest for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

@cisp-icps.bsky.social hosted a series of webinars exploring evidence, policy, priority population perspectives, and co-design approaches with leading researchers in the field of social prescribing. Check out the series here: www.socialprescribing.ca/webinar-seri...