Calls for Submissions and Participation

Health Canada is seeking comments and suggestions on its recently revised guidance document: Consideration for Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials and Analysis of Data by Sex. 

This document has been developed to address the following:

• To clarify the scope of the original guidance, including the populations to which it applies;
• To provide further guidance to sponsors on issues not addressed or minimally addressed in the 1997 guidance document. These include: inadvertent pregnancy in the course of a clinical trial and inclusion of pregnant and breastfeeding women in clinical studies/trials;
• To support and encourage good therapeutic product development practices, including new approaches and methodologies, to identify and analyze potential sex differences across the product life cycle;
• To provide guidance within the current regulatory environment.

Interested parties are encouraged to provide comments and suggestions by April 16, 2012.

Read more about this document, and about how you can submit your input, on Health Canada’s website.

Women's mental health: An interprofessional education day for Ontario Practitioners, ECHO

March 22, 2012
8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Toronto, 370 King Street, Toronto

Echo: Improving Women's Health in Ontario and partners present a one-day educational event featuring speakers on:
- Mental health in menopause
- Violence against women and mental health
- Postpartum depression
- Meditation and therapeutic presence
- POWER Study chapter on depression
- Mood and brain fitness in older women

Presentations will be offered by recognized leaders crossing a range of disciplines. This event is targeted at primary care and mental health practitioners. A detailed program will be available shortly.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Echo can reimburse a limited number of participants travelling further than 100 km.  Register early for this reimbursement!         

For more information please visit Echo’s website.

A student conducting a research study at Carleton University is looking for Aboriginal participants to complete a confidential study relating to Indian Residential Schools.

It is not necessary that you or anyone in your family attended Residential School

The researcher is a First Nations PhD student at Carleton University, conducting a follow-up study to original research on the intergenerational effects of Indian Residential Schools which identified certain factors that put children of Residential School Survivors at greater risk for poor well-being (the researchers would be happy to share these findings with you if you contact them). 

In the current study, the researchers are hoping to identify additional factors associated with well-being among children of Residential School Survivors and among Aboriginal adults whose parents did not attend Residential School.

This study has received clearance by the Carleton University Psychology Research Ethics Board.

The first phase of the study will consist of questionnaires that will take approximately 50-70 minutes to complete, which will ask about your relationship with your parents while growing up. The main goal of this phase of the study is determine how often Residential School Survivors spoke to their children about their experiences, and what impacts this communication (or lack of communication) had.

Upon completion of these questionnaires, you will be mailed a $10 gift certificate (choice of Tim Hortons, Walmart, Loblaws, or Cineplex Odeon/Famous Players). You will also be asked whether you would like to take part in phase 2 of this study.

Under 30 Scholarship Application Open

Scholarship applications for Women Deliver’s next global conference–May 28 to 30, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia–are now available for applicants under 30 (as of May 2013) here.

If you will be aged 30-years-old or older (as of May 2013), you will be offered a separate application that will be available on March 26th, 2012. 

Deadline for all scholarships to be received is April 15, 2012 (12pm EST), with no exceptions.

Manitoba Status of Women is holding public consultations on domestic violence across the province.  They want to hear the ideas and opinions of a range of stakeholders and individuals on how to reduce violence and improve services for people affected by domestic violence. 

For details regarding the upcoming consultations that will take place in Winnipeg, please see the attached poster.  They encourage you to forward this poster to any individual or organization in Winnipeg and surrounding area that may be interested in participating.  They also encourage you to post the posters in a location that is visible to the public.  To take part in the consultation, please contact Manitoba Status of Women to register (contact information below).

NOTE:  The consultations will be taking place in English, but interpretation services will be available at the event taking place on April 2, 2012 at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain for those wishing to participate in French.

For more details on the public consultations, or to view the Moving On: Safer Today, Stronger Tomorrow Public Consultation Paper, go to their website.

Manitoba Status of Women
Manitoba Family Services and Labour
401 - 409 York Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3C 0P8
Phone: 204-945-6281in Winnipeg
Toll free: 1-800-263-0234

4^th Conference on Recent Advances in the Prevention and Management of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity: Strategies and Solution – From Practice to Policy

Deadline for abstract submission: March 23, 2012

Extended deadline *ONLY* for poster submissions – May 18, 2012

Conference Date

Pre-Conference: Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Main Conference: Thursday, October 25 & Friday, October 26, 2012

Call for abstracts

Online abstract submission form

*NEW*Call for Abstracts – Pre-Conference: Wednesday, October 24, 2012

What is the impact of comprehensive school initiatives on obesity prevention? 

Please refer to page 3 of the Advance Notice for more information

Location: The Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, NS

Contact:
Jo Nam
(604) 822-2801,
jo.ipce@ubc.ca
Interprofessional.ubc.ca

Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2012

The invitation for abstracts is extended to all interested participants who wish to share clinical practice, education and research topics at the Association of Ontario Midwives’ 28^th’th annual conference. The focus will be strengthening the profession through the growth and development of both locally and globally. Speakers are invited to submit papers that would relate to this theme, or to current relevant clinical topics on maternal-newborn care.

Conference website

Call for abstracts

Fifth National Biennial Conference on Adolescents and Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder:

*New* Call for Submissions from Adults and Adolescents with FASD

CONFERENCE BROCHURE and REGISTRATION now available.

Information about Legal Day (April 18) is available HERE

Conference Dates: April 18-21, 2012

This conference will provide a forum to share research, experience and practice in order to discuss how we can effectively sustain and enhance the lives of adolescents and adults with FASD, their families, service providers, and communities. Are we adequately addressing and supporting the needs and rights of adolescents and adults with FASD within our society? Do individuals with FASD have timely and appropriate access to health care, housing, social services, legal and civil justice and employment? How can we build on the strengths of existing systems to identify and address barriers and move forward to provide effective ethical support? How do we provide focused and targeted approaches across services, and systems to create an integrated and collaborative approach to supporting individuals with FASD? These are the essential elements for social justice and we are just starting to explore and understand what will be required to put these into action.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

Nomination Deadline: March 31^st, 2012

Do you know a woman that ProMOTION Plus should know? 

§  A woman who has made a significant difference through sport for girls and women in British Columbia?

§  A woman who has worked to create access and opportunities for participation in sport and recreation?

§  A woman who inspires through her own athletic achievement, passion and dedication?

ProMOTION Plus is CELEBRATING BC WOMEN IN SPORT and they are seeking nominations for inclusion in the In Her Footsteps exhibit at the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.

For nomination forms and for more information, please visit their website.

ProMOTION Plus is the British Columbia organization for girls and women in physical activity and sport. It was established as a non-profit society in 1990 and was unique in Canada at the time. ProMOTION Plus is still only one of the three provincial organizations in Canada dedicated to increasing opportunities for girls and women in the sport and recreation delivery system.

Wednesday March 7th, 2012 – 9:30-11:30am
SFU Harbour Centre – 515 West Hastings Street
Room 7050, 7th floor computer lab
Vancouver, BC

Limited seating

Join British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health for a hands-on introduction to two sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) resources, including a new e-learning website on Sex and Gender-Based Analysis and The Source.

You’ll learn how to apply SGBA, including the core concepts of sex, gender, diversity and equity and the SGBA process, in research and policy. Hands-on exercises will help researchers, policy makers, health planners, and students to identify sources of women's health research from all Canadian provinces and territories.

See BCCEWH's website for more information

RSVP to bccewh@cw.bc.ca

Presented by the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s health in partnership with Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence and Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. Funding provided by CIHR.