Calls for Submissions and Participation

The CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to the following research priority areas:

o Gender, Work and Health: how gender and/or sex affect health as it relates to paid and unpaid work (e.g., occupational health and safety, chemical exposures, unintentional injury, the division of labour, care work, policies and interventions).

o Gender and Sexual Health: how gender and/or sex affect sexual health (e.g., risks and resilience, exposure and transmission, access to services, information and contraception, policies and interventions).

Important Dates
Registration Deadline 2012-02-02  
Application Deadline 2012-03-01  
Anticipated Notice of Decision 2012-06-29  
Funding Start Date 2012-10-01  

For more information, please visit ResearchNet.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women confirmed on December 16, 2011 that it has initiated an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada under Article 8 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

After many years of work on this issue by so many Aboriginal women, family members, and allies, Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) applauds the recent United Nations Committee decision to intervene, saying they hope that the Committee will be able to assist Canada to address the crisis of human rights violations against Aboriginal women and girls.

However, the Committee has not yet decided whether to seek permission for a visit to Canada. A visit to Canada is essential in FAFIA’s view. The Committee members need to be able to conduct face to face interviews with some Aboriginal women and families in Canada and to make some visits to communities. FAFIA is inviting other interested groups to sign on to the following letter to the CEDAW Committee urging them to move forward quickly and to ask Canada for permission for a visit. The Committee's Working Group on inquiries and communications will meet again in February 2012 in Geneva, and this issue may be discussed. Because of this schedule, FAFIA would like to receive signatures before February 3, 2012.

If you would like to sign on to the letter, please send an email message with the full name of your organization to Lorna Martin at the Native Women's Association of Canada: lmartin@nwac.ca.

SystemAction, Canada’s national knowledge exchange network in support of the National Treatment Strategy, has lined up their second free webinar of 2012:

Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Time:  1 pm EST

Duration: 1 hour

Presenter: Nancy Poole

To register, please click here.

About Nancy Poole:

Nancy Poole is the Director of Research and Knowledge Translation at the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health.  She is well known for her work on research, training and policy initiatives related to women’s substance use, mental health, and experience of violence with governments and organizations on local, provincial and national levels. She is the co-editor of an upcoming book on trauma-informed care to be published by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Here’s what’ll be covered in the webinar: 
• An introduction to trauma-informed and trauma-specific practice
• Examples of how people are embedding trauma informed and trauma specific care in various settings in Canada
•Discussion of why there is a need to focus on trauma informed care in systems development work
• Summary of key issues, themes and resources, highlighting promising practices and tensions

There will be time for discussion-based questions and answers. The webinar will take place in English.

You are invited to a free hands-on introduction to a new e-learning website on SGBA, presented by Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence, with BC & Atlantic Centres of Excellence for Women's Health.

Thurs. Feb. 2, 2012, 9:00 - 11 am
University of Winnipeg, Computer Lab 1M29
See: Map
Limited seating

The presenters willl introduce online tutorials that will assist you with applying SGBA in your daily work.  The website's creators are ready to assist you while you increase your familiarity with the tools.

They'll also introduce you to The Source/La Source, a Pan-Canadian web-based resource of women's health data sources, reports and synthesis documents. Hands-on exercises will help researchers, policy makers, health planners, and students to find sources of women's health research and data from all Canadian provinces and territories.

RSVP to pwhce@uwinnipeg.ca

Production of this document has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) has been mandated by the Public Health Agency of Canada to determine the interest of various stakeholders for a revision to the Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care National Guidelines.   A very short survey was developed  - it is one of the consultative initiatives implemented by the SOGC that will be used to guide the Public Health Agency of Canada in the anticipated revisions to the FCMNC National Guidelines.

This consultation survey is very short and should take less than 5 minutes to complete – they thank you in advance for taking the time out of your busy schedule to complete it.

Click for the survey here.

You can find Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care National Guidelines in the publications section of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s website.

Love, Sex, Violence and Crime: An overview of Criminal Law and Violence Against Women is a self-directed online course for frontline workers in the violence against women sector. The aim of the course is to provide participants with an increased ability to provide support and advocacy for women who have experienced physical or sexual violence, or criminal harassment, and who are, or are considering, becoming involved with the criminal court and/or related systems. These systems include the police, the Crown, victim services such as Victim Witness Assistance Program, legal aid and quasi-legal systems such as professional colleges and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.

For more information on this course visit Springtide Resources.

The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby Campus) is seeking outstanding candidates for a Junior Chair in gender and urban studies in Canada, funded by the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowment.

Completed applications must be received by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies no later than February 29, 2012.

Please see the attached for more information.

Options for Sexual Health (Opt, Canada's largest sexual health organization, located in BC, is looking for a new exceutive director:

POSTING FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR POSITION AT Opt

Options for Sexual Health (Opt) envisions a society that celebrates healthy sexuality, its diversity of expression, and a positive sexual self-image for individuals throughout life.

We pursue this vision with a province-wide network of sexual health clinics and an array of education, information and advocacy programs. We pride ourselves on our non- judgmental approach and our passionate support of reproductive choice. And we are looking for a dynamic and creative leader as our next Executive Director. 

The successful candidate will have a strong performance record as:

- a strategic and visionary thinker who can convert plans into action

- a builder of community and organizational relationships

- an effective communicator

- a leader and motivator of people

- a steward of resources in a challenging non-profit environment

- a champion of excellence and quality

Minimum qualifications include a post-secondary degree in a relevant field, management experience in the fields of health or social sciences, and knowledge of the non-profit sector and its relationship to government and other sectors. 

This full-time position is based in Vancouver, British Columbia and reports to the President of the Board of Directors. Following an initial confirmatory period of six months, the position will be offered for a three-year, renewable term based on performance. 

Opt pays a competitive salary with basic benefits including five weeks of vacation annually. 

The Ontario Women's Health Network is currently accepting applications for the Level 1: Women's Health Leadership 101 training retreats scheduled for:

February 22-24, 2012 - Application Deadline: January 5

March 21-23, 2012 - Application Deadline: February 2

The retreats take place at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario.

Women living in Ontario who are interested in applying to participate at the February or March retreats should return their completed application to OWHN by the appropriate deadlines. More Level 1 retreats are scheduled to take place in 2012 and further information about these opportunities will be released at a later date. This program is funded by Echo: Improving Women’s Health in Ontario, an agency of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

The Level 1 application form and information about the program are available on OWHN's website at: www.owhn.on.ca

Please contact OWHN with any questions about the program or application process:

owhn@owhn.on.ca 416-408-4840 or toll-free 1-866-860-4545

Please join us for the official launch of the CIHR-IGH gender, sex and health research casebook!

A webinar event presented by the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and the Canadian Women's Health Network

When: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 10:00-11:00am PST / 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST
Where: online

Moderated by Joy Johnson, Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health

Presenting authors:
Adrianna Mendrek (presentation in English) ♦ Sex and gender differences in mental health research
Karen Messing (presentation in French) ♦ Work exposures and musculoskeletal disorders: how the treatment of gender and sex in population-based surveys can affect detection of exposure-effect relationships
John Oliffe (presentation in English) ♦ Mobilizing masculinity to support fathers who want to be smoke free

Bilingual French/English Q&A.

Participants will also be introduced to a curricular companion to the casebook.

About What a Difference Sex and Gender Make: A Gender, Sex and Health Research Casebook:
This peer-reviewed casebook presents a range of research-based accounts that illustrate how attending to gender and sex in health research contributes to advancing knowledge, strengthening science and improving knowledge translation. Written from a critically reflective vantage point, chapters share health researchers' experiences in how they came to understand and engage gender and sex in their work. This collection demonstrates that there is much to be gained from the routine integration of gender and sex across the health research spectrum.

For more information, please visit CIHR's website.

Please email IGH Executive Assistant Angela Hold at anghold@exchange.ubc.ca to register.