MSFHR Reach Award

We want to thank the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research for funding our Women’s Health Knowledge Translation Initiative & Science Communication Training Program. This program will provide knowledge translation training to students interested in women’s health and give them the opportunity to practice what they learn through multimedia platforms. Read more.

Kennadie Chaudhary, a Campaign Coordinator for AccessBC, shares research in our most recent blog about the impact of not providing free contraceptives to the public. Read more. 

Osteoporosis in Canadian Women: Building Strong Bones for a Healthy Life
Shali Tayebi, a Masters of Science in Global Health student from the University of Copenhagen, penned this wicked review of research about the causes, risk factors, prevention and burden of osteoporosis in Canada. Read more.

Mar 2: A Fireside Chat with Margaret Price

The Public Humanities Hub in Arts is partnering with the WHRC to offer this opportunity to sit down with Dr. Margaret Price to discuss issues she addresses in her work on “madness” and academic life.  In conversation with our co-lead, Dr. Judy Segal, Dr. Price will question deeply-held, and generally unchallenged, values of university culture: productivity, participation, security, and independence. Learn more and register here (free!).

4-5:30 pm PST

Mar 2: Women's Brain Health Initiative Trainee-Mentor Session

This event offers an intimate setting where trainees can connect with Dr. Robert-Paul Juster (University of Montreal) to ask him about anything and everything related to Stress and Resilience Neuroscience: Navigating Transdisciplinary Research Approaches that Nuance Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation 

10-11 am PST Register here.

Mar 3: Sixth Annual Women's Health Research Symposium

This is the Women’s Health Research Institutes flagship event of the year, which showcases women’s health research taking place across British Columbia, Canada. The event has networking opportunities and a hands-on trainee-focused presentation to start the day. More information and register. 

7:30-3pm PST

Mar 6: Community Womxn's Initiative Conference

This virtual conference will engage future healthcare professionals across Canada in conversations about intimate partner violence and will improve their skills in supporting womxn who are currently experiencing violence. Register here. 

9-12pm PST

Mar 8: Women's Health Seminar Series—Hormone, Brain and Social Cognition

Presenter: Dr. Elena Choleris, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph

Mar 8: Women's Brain Health Conference—Symposium 4: Sex, Hormones and Metabolic Regulation

Body weight during pregnancy, brains and hearts. All of these things are impacted by our hormones in both short-term and long-term ways. Register to hear three speakers direct how and why.

Mar 22: Women's Health Seminar Series—From Bump to Baby: Women's Sexual Health During the Transition to Parenthood

Presenter: Dr. Samantha Dawson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia
12-1pm PDT Register here.

Mar 24: BC Reproductive Mental Health Program's Webinar Series

This series begins on March 24th and includes 7 webinars for researchers and healthcare professionals working with pregnant and postpartum women. Register here.

Funding

NIH: Early Intervention to Promote Cardiovascular Health of Mothers and Children Multisite Clinical Centres

This opportunity invites clinical or community sites  to be part of a multi-center group that will test the effectiveness of an intervention designed to promote cardiovascular health (CVH) and address CVH disparities in both mothers and children (0-5 years old) who are of low socio-economic status (SES), live in low-resource rural or urban communities, or who are in diverse geographic regions of the U.S. with high burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Due June 11.

CIHR: Team Grant Indigenous Gender and Wellness Team Grant

Funding is provided for Indigenous-led teams to implement their ideas through research and action-oriented, community-based participatory projects that will improve wellness for Indigenous Peoples from a gendered perspective. This is not restricted to those who received a Development Grant in Phase 2 of this initiative. Registration deadline is June 22. Read more.

SSHRC: Connection Grant

These grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. 7-25K is available per project. Due May 1st.

Other

Women’s Mental Health Conference

Yale is currently seeking session proposals for 20-minute presentations for their annual Women’s Mental Health Conference (Apr 23-24). All selected session speakers will receive a $100 honorarium. Applications are due March 7th.

Report Watch

Applying Gender Lenses to the Interlinkages and Synergies Between SDGs 

Published by the Centre for Gendered Innovations in Science and Technology Research, this report resulted from a global conversation at the 19th Gender Summit. It articulates what needs to happen to achieve the UN Agenda 2030’s gender equality mission. Read more here. 

Gender Dimension of Digital Technologies

Published by GenderinSITE, this publication reports on how the use of digital technologies is not gender neutral in Africa and Latin America. Read more here.

Research

Gender-related variables for health research (Nielsen et al., 2021)

Beyond the binary: Rethinking sex and the brain (Joel, 2021)

Gender-related characteristics and disparities in estimated cardiovascular disease risk in a multi-ethnic general population: The HELIUS study (Bolijn, et al., 2021)

News

Simple, accurate and evidence-based: U of T experts create women’s health resource (University of Toronto)

Women’s health: Heart disease brought on by other diseases (News 10)

‘Just living with pain’: Women’s healthcare waylaid by COVID-19 pandemic (Los Angeles Times)

We’d like to formally welcome the following new members to our cluster. We’re happy to have you working alongside us to support women’s health!

• Kiah Leone, PhD student at the University of Northern British Columbia (Canada)

• Dr. Deborah Sloboda, Professor at McMaster University (Canada)

• Brianna Kennelly, PhD student at McMaster University (Canada)

• Danielle Toccalino, PhD student at the University of Toronto (Canada)

• Dr. Hilary Brown, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada)

If you feel passionate about the work we are doing and are in a position to give, consider making a one-time or monthly donation. 100% of proceeds will be used to promote women’s health research across public, government and academic domains.