The Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health provide research and administrative support to increase innovation, impact, and productivity of our faculty and student affiliates, as well as our research partners.
We have identified three primary strengths on which to advance leading-edge research and support local, national, and international partnerships and collaborations. Crosscutting research approaches include observational and experimental designs and data collection, an emphasis on improving health services and technological innovations, and advances in data analytics and rigorous replication research.
Faculty affiliates lead each area and hold regular meetings to share current and planned research activities and develop new opportunities for grants and collaborative research.
Our three research initiatives: Cognitive Health, Lifelong Health, and Vulnerability and Frailty build on a strong legacy of research at UVic. The UVic strategic priorities are advanced by the Institute’s new priorities have been set to advance research excellence and impact on an aging society.
As an internationally recognized research institute, our local, national and international research activity and knowledge mobilization promotes student success, and facilitation of collaboration, partnerships and interdisciplinary approaches on campus and with our external colleagues.
The Institute supports several major research projects, a new direction that strengthens key partnerships and that will provide lasting scientific resources to Institute affiliates and increase collaborative research and training opportunities.
- The Institute continues to have a primary leaders