Events and Conferences

The Women’s Health Research Network (WHRN) Summer Institute will be held May 21st & 22nd, 2009 in Kelowna, BC. The goals for the summer institute are: 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; and discussing the role of the WHRN in promoting KT in women’s health/gender and health.

Coming up at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto, May 2 & 5, Orgasm Inc. is described as: "Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a humorous but sobering look inside America's cash-fuelled pharmaceutical industry."  Showing on May 2 1:00 pm at the Bloor cinema and on May 5, 1:30 pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre.

Theme - Breastfeeding: A Vital Emergency Response
Are you ready?

OBJECTIVES OF WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK 2009

• To draw attention to the vital role that breastfeeding plays in emergencies worldwide.
• To stress the need for active protection and support of breastfeeding before and during emergencies.
• To inform mothers, breastfeeding advocates, communities, health professionals, governments, aid agencies, donors, and the media on how they can actively support breastfeeding before and during an emergency.
• To mobilise action and nurture networking and collaboration between those with breastfeeding skills and those involved in emergency response.

Visit the site here.

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada invites you to join us in Winnipeg to update your skills and knowledge in Advances in Labour and Risk Management. The course will be held on September 12-13, 2009. ALARM was developed by family physicians, obstetricians, midwives and nurses, who jointly continue to maintain and teach the course. Backed by the SOGC, the ALARM course arose out of our work to improve the care provided to women during labour, their fetuses and newborns, and their families.

Read more here.
 

April 1, 2009 Toronto ON

500,000 Canadians miss work every day because of mental health problems.
And two-thirds of them are women.
 
Yet when it comes to women's mental health in the workplace, the issues,
their causes and management are under-researched. Women's mental health
issues are costing a fortune and causing untold suffering.
 We need to take action. New thinking on how to improve the quality of
the workplace experience for women with mental health issues is urgently
needed.
 
On April 1, the X Effects Conference will bring together clinicians, human resource
professionals, corporate executives, policy makers, researchers,
educators, healthcare workers and the interested public.
 
Together, we will ask the tough questions, develop creative solutions
and move the agenda for women's mental health in the workplace to the
next level.
 
For more information and to register, please go to the website.

April 17 -19, 2009 Montreal QC

Medical Students for Choice (MSFC) is a bi-national organization dedicated to supporting comprehensive reproductive health care for all women though educating medical students and other health professionals. The McGill Medical Students for Choice chapter is honoured to be hosting the Canadian National Conference this year, discussing the diversity of women needing reproductive and sexual health care, and how, as physicians and health care workers, we can help women access services they choose.

For any question or information, please contact: msfcconference2009@yahoo.ca

Register online here.

March 6 - 7, 2009  Toronto, ON

This unprecedented and controversial conference, presented by the Sexual Diversity Studies Student Union at the University Of Toronto, will explore the complex relationship between government and prostitution, investigating a variety of perspectives and raising challenging discourses. Everywhere, the topic of prostitution brings forth a wide range of attitudes, opinions, and often-emotional responses; here at the University of Toronto, we're bringing it all together into a groundbreaking and provocative discussion.

For more information, visit the conference website.

March 10, 2009   Ottawa, ON

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies invites you to attend a presentation in celebration of International Women's Day by Judy Rebick.

Judy Rebick is a veteran social justice activist, feminist educator, and writer. She currently holds the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which are Transforming Power: From the personal to the political (Penguin 2009) and Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005). Judy is the founder and former publisher of rabble.ca and a past-president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

3:30-5:30 pm
101 Azrieli Theatre
CARLETON UNIVERSITY
Free Admission and All are Welcome

For more information, please contact Hélène Boudreault, at 613-520-6644
Email: hboudre@uottawa.ca

March 5, 2009  Toronto, ON

Women’s College Hospital presents Eve Ensler. Join us in honour of International Women’s Day to hear her heart-rending account of mass rape and femicide in the Congo. Eve Ensler is not only a world-renowned playwright, performer, author, and activist. She is also the founder of a global movement to end violence against women. At Women’s College Hospital, we too are committed to helping end violence against women. In fact, our cutting-edge treatment programs help women rebuild their lives and our pioneering research deepens our understanding of the issues.

Don’t miss this provocative and inspiring evening, Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:00 pm MaRS Discovery District Auditorium, 101 College Street, Toronto.

For tickets call: UofTtix (416) 978-8849 (97UTTIX) or www.uofttix.ca

$12.50 through UofTtix or $10 at Women’s College Hospital – pick up only.

June 4-6, 2009  Toronto, ON

This year's annual meeting will facilitate an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas by providing investigators from various fields a unique opportunity to share their latest findings and hypotheses about sex differences. The interdisciplinary meeting will bring together researchers who share an interest in sex differences and who are unlikely to meet at other scientific conferences and meetings.

Satellite Event
June 4th 12-3pm

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Gender and Health is pleased to sponsor the event Sex cells, but gender matters: New frontiers in health research. Session Chair: Dr. Donna Stewart, Lillian Love Chair in Women's Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto

For more information, please visit the website.