Dr. Gunnell was recently awarded $3,000 from the CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPS) Community Support (ICS) Program Skills update Award. The Skills update award competition provides researchers with funding to gain specialized skills in areas related to strategic priorities of the funding opportunity. In June, Dr. Gunnell will attend a three day workshop on Latent Curve Modeling in North Carolina to further her training in quantitative longitudinal data analysis.