REPORTS
PWHR 2024-2025 Impact Report
PWHR convenes hybrid and virtual events to share cutting-edge research and mobilize knowledge that is improving the health of women, trans, and non-binary people. The network also offers national opportunities for mentorship and capacity building, helping to develop the skills and professional networks of the next generation of women’s health researchers.
The PWHR 2024-2025 Impact Report highlights the impact of 9 women’s health research events, which engaged more than 1,100 participants – including researchers, community members with lived and living experience, health care providers and administrators, trainees, and policymakers. These events focused on sharing and mobilizing equitable and inclusive knowledge to support improved health outcomes. Participants joined from across Canada and around the world.
Beyond the Binary In Canada Guide (2024)
The Beyond the Binary in Canada Guide provides nationally relevant, community informed guidance that enables researchers to conduct gender inclusive health research for cisgender women, trans, non-binary, Two-Spirit, gender non-conforming, gender creative, and additional gender divergent identities. When we refer to promoting gender equity in research, we mean the meaningful acknowledgment, engagement, and integration of gender diverse peoples throughout research practices and processes.
Guide Au-delà de La binarité au Canada
Le Guide Au-delà de la binarité au Canada présente des orientations adaptées à l’échelle nationale et éclairées par la communauté qui permettent aux chercheur·se·s de réaliser de la recherche en santé qui est inclusive sur le plan du genre pour les femmes cisgenres et trans, les personnes non binaires, bispirituelles, non conformes au genre, créatives sur le plan du genre et toutes les autres identités divergentes en matière de genre. Lorsque nous parlons de la promotion de l’équité de genre dans la recherche, nous entendons la reconnaissance, la participation et l’intégration significatives des personnes issues de la diversité de genre dans toutes les pratiques et les processus de recherche.
PWHR 2022-2023 Impact Report
The PWHR 2022-2023 Impact Report shares collective national initiatives since PWHR’s launch in March 2022 until December 2023. Highlights include convening 14 women’s health research events that engaged more than 1200 trainees, researchers, policymakers, healthcare providers and other strategic partners.
Partnered Women’s Health Research For Knowledge Mobilization: PWHR Knowledge Summary + Knowledge Mobilization Tool (2023)
The Partnership for Women’s Health Research Canada (PWHR) has produced a summary of key learnings from the inaugural Partnership for Women’s Health Research Seminar Series (2022-2023) outlining key principles and practices to support meaningful and sustained engagement and collaboration with communities, health and social service providers, and policymakers. The summary is accompanied by a tool (available as a PDF or as an editable Word document) that offers researchers and research teams questions to prompt reflection throughout engagement with knowledge holders and users, from project design through to end-of-project dissemination/implementation.
PODCASTS
The Fifth Wave
In The Fifth Wave: Curing the Healthcare Bias against Women, healthcare champions, the IWK Foundation, bring to light the profound and often dangerous consequences the gap in women’s health and research has had on women. The study of human biology has defaulted to the male body, which has hindered understanding of sex-based biological differences and results in fewer available and less effective treatments for women. We have been living in a world built for men, not only in heath care, but transportation, technology and beyond.
This series will spark both curiosity and outrage leaving you wanting large scale change – a movement even. With insights from medical experts and researchers, The Fifth Wave challenges the default male standard and asks: What happens when half the population is left out of the equation? We hope to empower every woman and girl with the awareness and information to take charge of her health. Hosted by Avis Favaro.
Mind the health gap
Mind the Health Gap, a podcast brought to you by Women’s College Hospital Foundation, offers in-depth conversations surrounding the gaps in Canada’s healthcare system and their dangerous consequences, featuring physicians and prominent leaders from Women’s College Hospital.
@WomensResearch
There is much more to research than results – there are rich and fascinating stories to be told about how scientists discover a gap in knowledge, how they collaborate, why they choose to pursue a line of inquiry, or why a research user should care about their work. @WomensResearch explores the latest in women’s health research in British Columbia, hosted by the Women’s Health Research Institute.
The Health Researcher’s Toolkit: Why Sex & Gender Matter
Women’s College Research Institute (WCRI) is a leader in the promotion of SGBA+ (sex- and gender-based analysis plus) across all health research – inclusive health research incorporates diversity by taking factors beyond sex and gender into account. The team at WCRI has developed a toolkit of learning modules to help health researchers integrate SGBA+ into a variety of research methodologies – from secondary data analysis to concept mapping.
The Partnership for Women’s Health Research Canada uses the term women to refer to all people who identify as women. We use trans and non-binary as umbrella terms to refer to people with a wide range of gender identities that are different from the gender they were assigned at birth.
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