The Source - workshops and launch

The Source/La Source is a bilingual web-based tool for researchers, policy makers, health planners, and students. It is designed to facilitate access to Canadian data sources for health information on women and girls.

Women’s Health in Communities workshops were held on Wednesday October 17th, sponsored by the Provincial Women’s Health Network, in Prince George, BC at the Coast Inn of the North. Click here for the workshop agenda.

The Source / La Source is funded by the Women’s Health Research Network, one of eight Michael Smith Foundation for Health ResearchHealth of Population Networks.

The Source will make it easy for:

• Health policy developers to gather evidence on sex, gender and diversity;
• Researchers to explore the “gaps” in Canadian knowledge; and
• Students and journalists to find Canadian health statistics.

The Source/La Source is a response to the frustration women’s health researchers and policy-makers have experienced in trying to find and sift through health-related data”, says Dr. Lorraine Greaves, co-Leader of the Women’s Health Research Network, Executive Director of the BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and project lead. “The Source/La Source pulls it together in one website and offers a new way of looking at data from the perspective of sex, gender and diversity.”

The Source/La Source was officially launched on October 18th, 2007 from 3:30 PM to 4:15 PM at the Coast Hotel on 770 Brunswick Street, Prince George, BC. 

Development and maintenance of The Source/La Source is funded by the Women’s Health Research Network, one of eight Health of Population Networks funded by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.  The Source is available in English and French thanks to support from Health Canada.

For more information or interviews, please contact: Jos Wentland