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- CWHN Seeking New Executive Director
- See CWHN's latest webinar! Maternal Health Internationally - What's Really Needed?
- Project Éco-santé Tools - Multilingual Graphic Booklets, Brochures and Videos
- Training Session: Theory and Key Concepts in Gender, Sex, and Health Research
- Prairie Women's Health Centre: Sharing Knowledge in Tasmania
- Launch: POWER Study Musculoskeletal Conditions Chapter
- Call for Participants: The History of Feminist Health Activism
- New Film On Cancer: Living Downstream
- Call for Abstracts: Second International Conference on Violence Against Women
- Flibanserin: Low Sexual Desire is Not A Disease
1. CWHN Seeking New Executive Director
As you may know, Madeline Boscoe recently moved on from her position at the Canadian Women's Health Network, and Susan White has stepped in to lead the Network in the interim. The CWHN is now searching for a new Executive Director. We'd like to ask your help in circulating this exciting opportunity as widely as possible, by forwarding to interested groups, organizations, and individuals in your network. The deadline for applications is July 20th, 2010. See the complete ad on our website.
2. See CWHN’s latest webinar! Maternal Health Internationally - What's Really Needed?
In June, the CWHN welcomed Katherine McDonald, Executive Director of Action Canada for Population and Development, to discuss what the evidence shows about maternal health internationally and how this relates to gender equality and human rights. View the webinar (1 hour long, recorded June 16, 2010). Download the presentation (PowerPoint courtesy of the Guttmacher Institute) (PDF). Read CWHN’s latest article on the evidence on maternal health.
3. Project Éco-santé Tools – Multilingual Graphic Booklets, Brochures and Videos
These new multilingual resources are available through the South Asian Women’s Community Centre in Toronto. Project Éco-santé explores the links between women’s heart, breathing, and mental health and their environments through a photo-video and a graphic booklet available in 10 languages (French, English, Urdu, Dari, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Portuguese, Creole and Spanish), and three brochures (available in French and English). All these tools are available on the website.
4. Training Session: Theory and Key Concepts in Gender, Sex, and Health Research
Join leading experts on July 6 for this foundational introduction to the field of gender, sex, and health research. The session is available online or live in Vancouver. Read more about it on our website.
5. Prairie Women's Health Centre: Sharing Knowledge in Tasmania
The Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) is excited about sharing successes with our international sister centres at the 6th Australian Women's Health Conference, held May 18-21 2010 in Hobart Tasmania. There, our delegates enjoyed an exciting opportunity to share recent work in gender and health planning. Read more and download the presentation here.
6. Launch: POWER Study Musculoskeletal Conditions Chapter
The POWER Study (Project for an Ontario Women's Health Evidence-Based Report) is launching their latest chapter - Musculoskeletal Conditions – on July 6th from 1-3pm at 193 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON. The launch will also be available via videoconference and webcast through the Ontario Telemedicine Network. For more information about the POWER Study, please go to www.powerstudy.ca
7. Call for Participants: The History of Feminist Health Activism
In the late 1960s, women's health became a primary concern of feminist activists throughout Canada. Women's liberationists located in Vancouver, BC, were particularly active. A Master's student in Simon Fraser University is investigating the emergence of such feminist health activism, conducting oral interviews with individuals who participated in it well as those who interacted with feminist health projects in Vancouver during 1970s and/or early 1980s. For more information on this research, and to participate, please see our website.
8. New Film On Cancer: Living Downstream
In May, Women’s Health Environments Network (WHEN) co-presented the Canadian Premiere of the film Living Downstream with the Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto. Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic and character-driven film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links.
9. Call for Abstracts: Second International Conference on Violence Against Women
Deadline: August 15, 2010 CRI-VIFF (the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Family Violence and Violence Against Women) and its Women, Violence and Vulnerable Situations research team are pleased to invite you to the Second International Conference on Violence Against Women, May 29 To June 1, 2011- Montréal. Researchers, practitioners, policy makers and students are also invited to submit abstracts on topics related to the Conference theme and sub-themes for presentation in the Conference. Four types of format can be submitted: oral presentation, poster presentation, symposium and workshop on innovative experiences. For more information, see the conference website.
10. Flibanserin: Low Sexual Desire is Not A Disease
On June 18, 2010, the United States Food and Drug Administration Reproductive Health Advisory Committee voted for the second time in its history not to approve a drug for "female sexual dysfunction". This new drug – flibanserin - has been tested in Canada but is not yet approved here. See the New View Campaign’s testimony and materials they presented to oppose the drug’s approval in the U.S.
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