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Enabling and supporting innovative groupings of researchers and research collaborations from all spheres
Fostering the generation, application, and mainstreaming of new knowledge in women's health and gender-based research
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WHRN "Wrap-Up"
March 1, 2010 - Across BC
Save the date - March 1, 2010 @ 2pm - for the WHRN's final event. Join us in your own community for a special event celebrating the accomplishments of the WHRN since 2005.
Sites will include:
Vancouver - SFU Harbour Centre Campus, hosted by WHRN Research Directors Elana Brief and Colleen Reid and Co-Leader Olena Hankivsky
Victoria - UVic, hosted by WHRN Co-Leaders Cecilia Benoit and Nancy Poole
Prince George - UNBC, hosted by former WHRN OC member Dawn Hemingway
Kelowna - UBC Okanagan, hosted by WHRN OC Chair Joan Bottorff
Kamloops - Thompson Rivers University, hosted by WHRN OC member Natalie Clark
A special event with short talks will take place at each location, with a videoconference link to join everyone together across the province for closing remarks. Please join us and help make this province-wide event a fitting send-off for the WHRN. RSVP by email to Susan Dixon at sdixon@whrn.ca
New presentations online!
Check out these two links to recent conference presentations made by our very own Dr. Elana Brief, WHRN Research Director: http://www.themarknews.com/videos/462 and http://www.themarknews.com/videos/463
WHRN Community-Based Research Conference
The WHRN's Conference on CBR was held June 5th, 2009 at the Coast Inn of the North in Prince George, BC. Please click here to view PDFs of the presentations. To download the new WHRN Primer on Community-Based Research, click here!
The new WHRN Primer - Our Common Ground: Cultivating Women's Health Through Community Based Research is now available!
Click here to download the PDF! 
The WHRN Primer Our Common Ground: Cultivating Women’s Health through Community Based Research received a glowing review in Vantage Point - an issue-based publication of Volunteer Vancouver. Click here to read the review: http://vantagepoint.volunteervancouver.ca/issues/2009-10/bookshelf.html
WHRN Summer Institute 2009
Thank you for making the WHRN's annual Summer Institute such a success! The Summer Institute was held May 22, 2009 at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna, BC. Click here to see the agenda and list of speakers.. 
The WHRN's podcast page is now online - Third podcast now available!
Click here to download the first three podcasts in the series - Giving Voice to Prison Mothers, Is Menopause a Disease? and Do Oilpatches Make Women Sick?
The WHRN searchable database of members has been launched!
Explore it now by clicking this link...
The WHRN primer Intersectionality: Moving Women's Health Research and Policy Forward is now available.
Click here to download it now! 
The WHRN primer Gendering the Health Determinants Framework: Why Girls' and Women's Health Matters is now available.
Click here to download it now!
Download the WHRN's publication Better Science With Sex and Gender: 
A primer for health research
Have you read the Primer or used it in your work? Click here to complete a brief survey - your input is needed for the next edition of Better Science With Sex and Gender!
Finding Dignity in Health Care and Health Care Work
A special supplement to the Canadian Journal of Public Health is now available. Entitled Finding Dignity in Health Care and Health Care Work (Cecilia Benoit and Helga Hallgrimsdottir (co-eds.), the special CJPH supplement is available in hard copy by emailing the WHRN or you can click here to download the document (PDF).
Intersectionality - an annotated bibliography
This annotated bibliography is a tool for helping researchers with intersectionality work. It is a companion piece to the WHRN’s Intersectionality Primer, which is to be officially launched on February 13th 2009. Download the PDF by clicking this link...
Download the WHRN brochure!
Past WHRN Events
Challenging Myths and Misperceptions: Working to Reduce Stigma and Enhance Public Understanding of People Who Work in the Sex Industry
January 16th & 17th, 2009 - Victoria, BC
The University of Victoria Hub of the WHRNis hosting an international conference on January 16th and 17th, 2009, at the Bedford Regency Hotel in downtown Victoria. The conference - Challenging Myths and Misperceptions: Working to Reduce Stigma and Enhance Public Understanding of People Who Work in the Sex Industry - includes a public lecture the evening of Friday, January 16th. Learn More »
Exploring Social Locations: Women's Health & Policy in Canada 
Exploring Social Locations is a new, innovative, and interactive approach to learning about gender, women’s health, and health policy in Canada. Open to community-based and academic health researchers, activists, students, and policy analysts across British Columbia, the course was offered to members of the community through Continuing Studies at SFU and accessible via WebEx. Read More »
NEW!!! Listen to streaming audio or download past presentations from the public lecture series »
Intersectionality from Theory to Practice: an interdisciplinary dialogue
April 16-18, 2008 - Vancouver, BC
WHRN workshop on the Impact of Trauma and Violence on Vulnerable Women's Health
To coincide with our annual Summer Institute the WHRN facilitated a workshop on violence and trauma in sex work on April 30, 2008 in Victoria. Click here for the workshop agenda.
You can contact the WHRN's Provincial Office (WHRN Coordinator and Research Directors) at: Women's Health Research Network telephone: 778.782.8589 fax: 778 782 5288 |
beginning July 1st, 2009, has taken up a new position as Executive Director of the Health System Strategy Division in the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care in Ontario, 
the UNBC School of Social Work and co-founder of the Women North Network, is the recipient of the 2009 
