Calls for Submissions and Participation

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team in Gender, Environment and Health has announced it will provide financial support to its members for presentations at conferences and publications related to the team’s activities. This incentive aims to promote the diffusion of the work done by the Team and increase its visibility.

Who may apply? Faculty members and partners of the Team; scholarship students of the Team and students who are involved in the Team’s activities.

How to apply? Complete the application form (see attached) and e-mail it to Marie Eve (rioux-pelletier.marie_eve@uqam.ca). Each Team member may be eligible to receive financial support for one presentation and financial support for one publication in 2012 (in exceptional cases more may be made available).

There are three application deadlines for 2012: April 15th, June 15^th and September 15^th.

Review process: applications will be assessed by the PI-Group of the Team, according to the relevance of the proposed communication or publication to the work and activities of the CIHR Team in Gender, Environmental and Health.

Financial support: the amount granted will depend on the availability of funds.

Feel free to contact them with any questions you might have.

Marie Eve Rioux-Pelletier
Équipe des IRSC sur le genre, l’environnement et la santé
CIHR Team in Gender, Environment and Health
www.geh.ges.uqam.ca

Retreat Date: May 23 – 25, 2012 – Application Deadline: April 20, 2012

Retreat Date: June 20 – 22, 2012 – Application Deadline: May 16, 2012

The Ontario Women’s Health Network (OWHN) is currently accepting applications for the upcoming Level 1: Women’s Health Leadership 101 training retreats scheduled for May 23-25 and June 20-22, respectively, at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario.

Women’s Health Leadership 101 is designed to build a greater understanding of the ways sex and gender affect health and health care and to offer women the leadership tools to work towards improving the quality of women's health and health care in their communities. Participants learn how to apply the leadership skills and sex and gender based analysis tools to address the women’s health issues that are important to them. This program is designed for women in Ontario who are motivated and interested in women’s health issues and who are already actively engaged in their communities or organizations.

These retreats are part of the Women’s Health Leadership Program which is funded by Echo: Improving Women's Health in Ontario, an agency of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

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

OWHN: 416-408-4840 or toll-free: 1-877-860-4545 email: owhn@owhn.on.ca

DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN) Canada/Réseau d'action des femmes handicapées (RAFH) Canada is looking for an administrative assistant.

DAWN/RAFH is a national organisation in service to women with disabilities since 1985. They controlled by and comprised of women who self-identify as women with disabilities. Their mission is to end the poverty, isolation, discrimination and violence experienced by women with disabilities. They are working to ensure women with disabilities get the services and supports that they need.

Under the leadership of the National Executive Director, the administrative assistant plays an important role in the administration of the network and will also support projects. She will assist the National Executive Director in her duties and will be responsible for the organization, the planning and the execution of complex administrative tasks.

Please see the complete job description below.

The British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (BCCEWH) invites you to view, download and/or order new materials about women, pregnancy, and tobacco cessation and relapse prevention at www.expectingtoquit.ca.

You are also invited to complete a brief survey AFTER YOUR VISIT TO THE WEBISTE, www.expectingtoquit.ca. The survey takes 5 minutes and you will get a chance to enter into a draw to win a Chapters gift card. Survey closes April 6^th, 2012.

Survey Link.

The 2003 edition of Expecting to Quit has been the foundation of the design and delivery of tobacco interventions for pregnant women across Canada and internationally and the authors hope that the current edition will have a similarly wide impact. They are currently completing a new guide on brief women-centred interventions entitled Liberation! A Guide to Women-Centred Tobacco Treatment. They are also working with anti-violence, addictions and mental health services serving women, on the integration of trauma-informed tobacco interventions in these treatment and support contexts. Building on a decade of such achievements, BCCEWH is hoping to continue to collaborate with organizations such as yours to keep women’s tobacco use as a priority policy, research, and knowledge transfer issue. 

Information about Expecting to Quit:
As you may know, The British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (BCCEWH) has placed women’s tobacco use as a priority policy, research, and knowledge transfer issue over the past decade.

Since February 1, 2012, stakeholders have been invited to review and provide comments on the revised draft statement: Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants - Recommendations from Birth to Six Months. This is the standard guide for infant feeding for all Canadian health professionals.

View the draft statement on the Health Canada website.

You can make a difference. The consultation period for comments has been extended to April 15, 2012. You can submit comments on the draft statement by email, fax or mail to:

Health Canada email: nutrition@hc-sc.gc.ca

Fax: 613-941-2432

Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion
C/o Infant Nutrition Project Lead
Health Canada
Address Locator: 3303D
Qualicum Tower A
2936 Baseline Rd
Ottawa ON K1A 0K9

The deadline for submitting comment on the Draft Statement is April 15th.

INFACT Canada is asking people to view their comment. You may use INFACT Canada’s comment and proposed changes or your own comment and proposals to improve the policy statement. To submit INFACT’s comment download either the MS Word or PDF file (below) and attach to an email to Health Canada.

The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) is evaluating midwifery care in Manitoba for Manitoba Health. As part of the evaluation, they are asking women who have received care from a midwife in the last three years in the province to fill out an online survey.

The survey closes April 15th, 2012. 

Please visit their website to find the survey.

Challenging Behaviour – The Tip of the Iceberg
November 15-17, 2012
Vancouver, BC

Conference Objectives:
- To promote best practices in physical and mental health for individuals with developmental disabilities
- Recognize the multifactorial determinants of challenging behaviour
- Recognize the role of traumatic experiences in understanding challenging behaviour
- Maximize health and wellbeing in order to minimize disability and improve quality of life
- Share knowledge and common experiences with others working in the field.

Our Call for Abstracts is currently open at: www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/HealthAndWellbeing/CallForAbstracts.asp

Deadline for presentation submissions - MARCH 30, 2012

For further information please visit www.interprofessional.ubc.ca , or contact at ian.ipce@ubc.ca (604) 827–3112

Sex- and gender-based analysis of healthy living topics on The Source

The British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence recently posted sex-and gender-based analysis of a number of healthy living topics on The Source (www.womenshealthdata.ca). These topics are highlighted with a red apple. They invite you to visit these pages and would appreciate your feedback on the topic summaries in a short survey.

To access the survey, please go to: app.fluidsurveys.com/s/healthyliving/

If you complete the survey you can enter your name into a prize draw for a $50 gift card at Chapters (valid in Canadian stores).

They hope you can complete this survey by March 27, 2012. Your comments are extremely valuable to their work, and they greatly appreciate you taking the time to complete this survey.

Deadline: March 30, 2012

The World Health Organization and the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative (GSHI) of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS/ University of British Columbia are working to perform a review of violence against sex workers and links to HIV infection.

As part of this review, they are documenting best practices in interventions aimed at reducing violence and HIV in the sex industry. They are currently collecting and synthesizing evidence on the successes and challenges of interventions aimed at reducing violence against sex workers, including female, male and transgender sex workers, in any and all regions globally.

In addition to peer review literature, they would like to include grey literature (policy reports, reports by community organizations) that document interventions aimed at reducing violence against sex workers. If you or your organization has produced a report that describes interventions, policies or programs to reduce violence against sex workers, including links to HIV prevention, please forward to: gshi@cfenet.ubc.ca.

All contributions, reports and documents will clearly be cited in the final report. Reports in all languages are welcomed.

Rainbow Health Ontario is a partner in a study seeking members of Ontario’s LGBT communities to participate in focus groups or individual interviews on preventative health. An honorarium will be provided to participants. They are looking mostly for people 45+ who live in/near Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa.

Check out the flyer, then email LGBTQ@innovativeresearch.ca if you are interested in participating. 

Anna Travers, MSW
Director, Rainbow Health Ontario
Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 2S5