Women's Health Research Network (WHRN)

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The Women's Health Research Network

The Women's Health Research Network was funded from 2005-2010 by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

This website features the key resources developed by the WHRN. Follow the links to learn about the Network's history, publications, and past events.

Click the titles to download the WHRN's four research primers:

Our Common Ground: Cultivating Women's Health Through Community Based Research

Intersectionality: Moving Women's Health Research and Policy Forward

Intersectionality: Moving Women's Health Research and Policy Forward

Gendering the Health Determinants Framework: Why Girls' and Women's Health Matters

Better Science With Sex and Gender: A primer for health research

Explore the WHRN-WHRI Searchable Database of Members

The Source/La Source

The Source/La Source is a bilingual web-based tool to assist researchers, policy makers, health planners, and students identify sources of health data for women and girls in British Columbia and elsewhere.

The Synthesis/La Synthèse is a bilingual resource centre where health planners, policy makers, and researchers can access synthesis papers or reviews on a variety of women’s health topics. This section includes reports, briefs, position papers, and fact sheets on critical health issues.

The Survey/Le Sondage is a searchable database of grey literature, that links women's health practitioners, policy makers, health authorities, and women's groups to a range of resources on women's health, including international, national, and provincial documents.