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  • Doctoral Level
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Recognitions

List of selected Awards, Scholarships, and Honours. Total competitive graduate funding: ~ 204,000 CAD.

Doctoral Level

  • Posit Opportunity Scholar – Posit conf (2025) – R & Python Data Science Conference (2025); ~5000 USD (~6950 CAD)
  • Top Abstract & Oral Research Communication (2024) - CanSAGE 2024, Victoria, Canada
  • Women’s Health Research Cluster Travel Grant (2024); 250 CAD
  • Best Oral Communication - 10th Society for Endometriosis & Uterine Disorder (SEUD) Congress in Geneva, Switzerland (2024); 500 euros (~740 CAD)
  • SEUD International Travel Award (2024) – 10th SEUD Congress; 1000 euros (~1,470 CAD)
  • Faculty of Medicine Travel Award (2024) – UBC; 500 CAD
  • Shaughnessy Hospital Society Fellowship in Health Care (2022-2023) - UBC; 8,350 CAD
  • Michael Smith Memorial Fellowship (2022-2023) - UBC; 4,275 CAD
  • Anti-racism Initiative Grant winner & Graduate Postdoctoral Studies (2021) – UBC; 11,000 CAD
  • Top Three Oral Presentation (2021) – CanSAGE Conference, Canada
  • Graduate Research Award in Women’s Health (2021-2022) - BC Women’s Health Research Institute; 13,500 CAD
  • Graduate Student Travel Award (2022) – UBC; 500 CAD
  • The Presidents Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award (2020-2024) – UBC; 6,000 CAD
  • Faculty of Medicine Graduate Awards (2019-2024) – UBC; 8,000 CAD
  • International Tuition Awards (2019-2024) – UBC; 16,000 CAD

Masters Level

  • British Chevening Scholarship (2016-2017)- Foreign & Commonwealth Office (U.K.); £34,500 (~58,100 CAD)
  • University of Nottingham’s Partnership scholarship award (U.K.) (2016-2017); £19,300 (~32,500 CAD)
  • Declined: Developing Solution Scholarship (2016-2017) – The University of Nottingham (U.K.); £19,300 (~32,500 CAD)
  • Development Fund Awardee (2016) – University of the West Indies; 100,000 JMD (~ 900 CAD)

Other Recognition

  • Outstanding Service Award to Clinical Chemistry between 2010 and 2019 (2019); University of the West Indies, Jamaica
  • Special Alumni Award (2019); York Castle High School, Jamaica