Health Minister Announces funding for HPV project
23-Jan-2012
(Left to right) Jody Butler Walker, AICBR Executive Director; Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health; Breanna Blottner, AICBR Director of Operations; and Katelyn Friendship, AICBR Research Officer.
On Thursday, January 26, the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, will announce the federal funding for Increasing Awareness and Education of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in the Yukon project. This project is being led by Dr. Brendan Hanley, Yukon’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, in partnership with the Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research and the Yukon Government’s Department of Health and Social Services. The project will be completed by March 31, 2013.
The announcement will take place in the foyer of the Yukon Government Administration Building at 2pm.
For more information about this project, click here or contact info@aicbr.ca.