WHRN Summer Institute 2009

More than a Catchphrase:

Transformative Knowledge Translations in Women’s Health

General Information, Dates and Location

Women’s Health Research Network (WHRN) Summer Institute 2009

Dates: Thursday, May 21st (evening only) and Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Location: Coast Capri Hotel, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Goals for Summer Institute 2009:

• Highlighting examples of knowledge translation and exchange in women’s health research and how it is brought into further research, policy, practice and community settings
• Promoting discussion of promising practices in knowledge translation
• Reflecting on how women's health/gender and health research goals/outcomes/processes can become subverted in the KT process, and how this can be addressed
• Discussing the role of the WHRN in promoting KT in women’s health/gender and health

The WHRN Summer Institute creates opportunities for members of the Women’s Health Research Network to gather and reflect on key aspects of their work and women’s health/gender and health research overall.

Agenda

May 21st

7pm-9pm - Registration, Networking Reception, and Poster Session

May 22nd

8:00am    Registration and Breakfast

9:00am    Kathleen Bloom - Turning the Tables on Knowledge Translation and Exchange                                      

9:45am    Short Presentations – Current issues and practices in KT

• Joan Bottorff - KT involving end-users at different stages of the research process
• Nancy Poole - Expanding the reach of KT using virtual communities of inquiry
• Kristina Uban - Promising practices in presenting biomedical research
• Lydia Drasic - Bringing women’s health research in the policy context

10:45am  Break

11:00am  Panel discussion with Joan Bottorff, Lydia Drasic, Nancy Poole, Jerilynn Prior, and Kristina Uban

12:00pm  Networking lunch

1:00pm    Group activity session - Putting the Stakeholder at the Head of the KTE Table

2:15pm    KT and the Women's Health Research Network

2:30pm    Break

2:45pm    KT in action

               Presentations from selected recipients of WHRN funding and members of the WHRN

• Robin LeDrew - Using Social Networking as a Participatory Method in KT
• Sherrie Bade (with Rose Warnell and Gayle Carriere) - Moving Women Beyond Bars: Building Community
• Sanzida Habib - Moving Beyond Culture Paradigms: Understanding and Enhancing South Asian Immigrant Women’s Access to Cancer Screening Services in Canada
• Pamela Ponic - Shedding Light on the Barriers to Housing for Women Fleeing Violent Relationships: A Photovoice Exploration

4:20pm    Wrap-up and evaluations

Speaker Bios

Sherrie Bade is Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, Thompson Rivers University. Her research interests focus on critical, feminist and participatory research as well as addictions, women’s studies and community development.

Kathleen Bloom is President and CEO of Knowledge Impact Strategies Consulting Ltd. Her experience in knowledge transfer developed as Director of a SSHRC Community-University Research Alliance, Co-Founder and Chair of the Canadian Centre for Knowledge Mobilisation, and Co-Chair of the UW Science Shop at the University of Waterloo where she is a faculty member.

Joan L. Bottorff is a Professor in the School of Nursing, and Director of the Institute of Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention at UBC Okanagan. She is also Co-chair of the WHRN Oversight Committee. Her research includes projects focusing on health promotion, tobacco reduction and women’s health.

Gayle Carriere is a Blood Bourne Pathogen Nurse Educator with the Interior Health Authority. She is especially interested in vulnerable populations and community development.

Lydia Drasic is Director, Provincial Primary Health Care and Population Health Strategic Planning with the PHSA. She has a background in Public Health Nursing, an MBA in managerial leadership and organizational development, and is a Certified Health Executive. Her current position focuses on addressing chronic disease prevention issues through surveillance and KTE initiatives. 

Sanzida Habib is a PhD candidate at the UBC Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She holds a BA (Honours) in Psychology from Rajshahi University (Bangladesh) and an MA in Women’s Studies from Simon Fraser University. Her dissertation research examines South Asian immigrant women’s access to and experience with breast and cervical cancer-screening services in the greater Vancouver.

Robin LeDrew is co-author of Lumby: Final Report on Women’s Health and Employability and a team participant in the WOW Lumby Knowledge Translation Project.

Pamela Ponic is a community-based researcher living and working in Nelson, BC. Her work focuses broadly on the social determinants of women's health from a feminist participatory action research perspective. Pam completed her PhD at UBC in 2007.

Nancy Poole is a Co-Leader with the WHRN, and works with the BCCEWH and BC Women’s Hospital on knowledge translation, network development, and research related to improving policy and service provision for women with substance use and addictions. Nancy is currently doing doctoral study on KT and feminist action research in the online environment. She has fellowships with IMPART and NEXUS and will be the 2009 Healthway Health Promotion Visiting Research Fellow in Western Australia this summer.

Jerilynn C. Prior is an endocrinologist and Professor at the University of British Columbia who has spent over 30 years doing research and teaching about menstrual cycles, broken bones in young women, perimenopause, menopause and hot flushes. She is the founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (www.cemcor.ubc.ca). Her award-winning book, Estrogen's Storm Season – stories of perimenopausegives women a chance to accurately understand perimenopausal changes through the lives of eight women.Her latest book, Estrogen Errors: why progesterone is better for women's health is soon to be available.

Kristina Uban is a PhD candidate in Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia under the joint supervision of Drs. Joanne Weinberg and Liisa Galea, and is an IMPART trainee. Kristina received her BS in Psychology from Arizona State University and her MA in Clinical Psychology at the University of Colorado at Denver. Her current research focuses on the neurobiological interactions between the brain’s stress systems and the neurocircuitry involved in reward. 

Rose Warnell is the Executive Director of the Anything is Possible Society. Her work focuses on addictions, women and the criminal justice system.

Event Registration Form

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