Events and Conferences

December 4-5, 2008 Vancouver, BC

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) invites you to a workshop for journalists focusing on health and the environment.

The CIHR Workshop for Journalists is presented by the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) and the Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) in partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC). We invite you to join CIHR-funded researchers to explore some of the biggest questions concerning our health and the environment.

The workshop will feature presentations by leading researchers. The workshop will cover:

• Key concepts of environmental impacts on the health of the population
• Health consequences of climate change
• Understanding and evaluating the quality of study results
• The amount of emphasis journalists should put on individual epidemiologic studies
• Environmental connections to asthma and cancer
• Translating research to policy

Register soon as seating is limited. There is no cost to participate in the workshop, but you will be responsible for your own travel and accommodation costs.

 To register or for more information, please contact David Coulombe, Media Relations, Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  

February 14, 2009

It’s time to register for the National Day of Action! Join hundreds of girls and young women from across the country by participating in the National Day of Action on February 14th 2009.

For 5 years now though, Girls Action-Filles d’action has transformed February 14th – Valentine’s Day into a celebration of the incredible girls and young women across the country who are working for a better world: it’s the National Day of Action! For this occasion, we invite girls and young women all across Canada to create an action project. The action projects are inspired from the realities and experiences of network members, and respond to issues and questions they want to bring into the spotlight.

The deadline is January 11th 2009.

For more information and to register, go to Girls Action Foundation.

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October 17, 2008  Burlington, ON

Building Bridges: Promoting Women's and Children's Health Through Interdisciplinary Partnerships

The International Women's and Children's Health (IWCH) network is a collaboration of students, faculty and community members, based at McMaster University, who are working together to improve women's and children's health in both Canada and abroad. Since 1998 the IWCH network has hosted a one-day conference to bring together newcomers and leaders in the area of international women's and children's health. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the IWCH Symposium. 

he 2008 conference will focus on promoting positive change through interdisciplinary approaches and includes a variety of lectures and workshops. 

October 22-23, 2008  Ottawa, ON
Championing Public Health Nutrition Policies - This conference organized by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest will bring together health and food-policy experts, policymakers, and journalists from across Canada and around the world explore how to reform public health nutrition policies. We'll look at school foods, nutrition information on labels and menus, food taxes, marketing to children, reformulating foods to minimize added salt and harmful fats, and much more. Contact Bill Jeffery, National Coordinator at 613-244-7337 by email at jefferyb@istar.ca or visit the website for more information.

October 11- 13, 2008 Montréal, QC

On our way towards our Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Gathering!
Mobilize, network, energize, and deepen the roots of the young feminist movement across Canada!

This is a call to all young feminists, militants, students, workers, un(der)employed women, artists, researchers, mothers, feminists of all tendencies and of all types, and of course emerging feminists…

This gathering will bring together young women and young feminists from all horizons.

This invitation is to all young women, between 14 and 35 years of age, with diverse political views and identities, from all regions, cultures and languages, with an interest in feminist issues and struggles!

Visit their website or contact the Organizing committee at the following address info@rebelles2008.org or with Barbara Legault at the Quebec Women's Federation:  514-876-0166 ext. 253.

October 27, 2008 Vancouver, BC

It is estimated that up to twenty percent of all newborns are exposed prenatally to alcohol, illicit drugs, and prescription opiates. Identifying the mother and her newborn are the first steps required for individualized treatment for the specific drugs. Neonates are extremely sensitive to the environment which must be altered by creative nursing interventions. Nurses can potentially have greatest impact, since women are most likely to be receptive to treatment while pregnant or immediately postpartum. Participants will leave equipped to assess mothers and their newborns and intervene with individualized care.  More information is available on-line. 

September 28, 2008 Pan-Canadian

A large Canada-wide day of protest is scheduled for Sunday September 28, 2008, with protests being staged in many large Canadian cities, in order to state vigorously that the population opposes this bill that will turn the clock back 20 years for women’s rights.

Bill C-484, the "Unborn Victims of Crime Act" passed second reading in Parliament last March.  This bill would make it a separate offence to injure or kill a foetus during a crime committed against a pregnant woman.   If it was adopted, it would establish the foetus as a new legal entity, a precedent which would set the table for challenging the right to abortion, and which could also lead to the criminalisation of certain pregnant women for behaviour deemed to be dangerous for the foetus. 

Block Sunday September 28, 2008 in your planners right away, speak to your colleagues, friends, relatives, and come out in large numbers to say No to Bill C-484!

For more information on the day of protest, visit the web site.

March 4 -6, 2009   Toronto, ON

The Clifford Beers Foundation working in conjunction with The Mental Health Commission of Canada is pleased to announce this important international conference on the promotion of mental health and wellness. The website provides information on calls for papers, keynote speakers, registration etc.

September 25-26, 2008  Vancouver, BC

This conference will provide education and informative updates on psychiatric, behavioural and complex health components specific to individuals with Developmental Disabilities, and showcase best practices in the field. 

The advance notice is available online.

August 19-22, 2008  Charlottetown, PEI

The Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities would like to announce the Atlantic Canada Showcase, for the 2008 Institute! The Atlantic Canadian Showcase will feature promising practices, programs, policies, experiences or lessons learned that relate to the theme of literacy and connect it with health, safety or crime - the focus of the Institute.

Keep checking their website for updates!   

Register on-line. For inquiries please contact asi@thequaich.pe.ca or the Coordinators at (902) 894-3399.