2011 IGH News
October
IGH Holds Meeting of IGH-funded Chairs, Teams and Centres
On October 4 and 5, 2011, IGH convened a meeting of representatives from the Institute's largest strategic investments to share best practices and innovations in methods and measures, knowledge translation, and evaluation in gender, sex and health research. The meeting was an opportunity for IGH-funded research chairs, teams, and centres to share some of key outcomes of their work, to network with each other and to interact with IGH's Institute Advisory Board.
The agenda included a mix of presentations, discussions in plenary and small groups, and interactive activities. It was clear that many synergies were forged over the course of the meeting and there was an appetite for further collective engagement. Several recommendations were generated in group discussions that will serve as helpful guidance for IGH in designing future strategic initiatives.
IGH Invests $7.65M in Violence, Gender and Health Teams
The Institute of Gender and Health congratulates the successful teams funded through IGH's Violence, Gender and Health Team Grants strategic initiative. In partnership with CIHR's HIV/AIDS Research Initiative, six teams were funded with a total of $8.5M ($7.65M from IGH and $850K from the HIV/AIDS Research Initiative). The primary objective of this strategic initiative is to support expert teams composed of researchers and knowledge users to conduct research on violence, gender, and health. These Team Grants represent a major investment for IGH in addressing the Institute's strategic research direction on violence and health. IGH looks forward to the upcoming work of these teams over the next five years.
Congratulations to the following Nominated Principal Investigators and their teams!
- Cecilia M. Benoit (University of Victoria) - Team Grant on contexts of vulnerabilities, resiliencies and care among people in the sex industry
- Helene A. Berman (The University of Western Ontario) - Promoting Health Through Collaborative Engagement with Youth in Canada: Overcoming, Resisting, and Preventing Structural Violence
- Stéphane Guay (Hôpital Louis H. Lafontaine) - Vers une meilleure prise en charge des victimes de violence grave en milieu de travail
- Rosemary J. Jolly (Queen's University) - A two-pronged service and community mobilization intervention to reduce gender-based violence and HIV vulnerability in rural South Africa
- Marlene Moretti (Simon Fraser University) - Effectiveness of a Relational Intervention in Reducing Violence and Victimization in At-risk Adolescent Girls and Boys
- Kate Shannon (University of British Columbia) - Team grant on social and structural violence and HIV among vulnerable populations
Please visit the funding decisions data on the CIHR website for complete team details.
IGH Funds 5 Café Scientifiques on Gender, Sex and Health Research
In the latest competition for Café Scientifique funding, the Institute of Gender and Health partnered with the CIHR Communications and Public Outreach Branch to fund five Cafés focused on gender, sex and health research. IGH is pleased to congratulate the following recipients of IGH Café Scientifique funding and wishes them successful events
- How Does Gender Matter in Long-term Residential Care? PI: Pat Armstrong, York University
- "Gender Dysphoria": Treating and Supporting Transgender Youth. PI: Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto
- Hot and Bothered? What to expect in Perimenopause. PI: Christine L. Hitchcock, University of British Columbia
- Bodies without borders: Physical health education and boys on the benches. PI: Michael D. Kehler, The University of Western Ontario
- Ain't I a woman too? Looking at intersectionality's relevance to the next generation of women's health research. PI: Charmaine C. Williams, University of Toronto.
Please visit the funding decisions data on the CIHR website for complete details.
September
IGH Bids Farewell to Long-time IAB Members, Welcomes New IAB Leadership
Having served their maximum board terms, Dr. Blye Frank (Chair of the Board) and Dr. Yves Tremblay are leaving the IGH Institute Advisory Board (IAB) after 7 invaluable years of service to the board. Dr. Frank joined the board in 2004 and was appointed board Chair in 2009. Dr. Frank helped to ensure the integration of boys' and men's health in IGH's strategic vision throughout his time on the board. Dr. Tremblay joined the board in 2005 and was instrumental in ensuring that biomedical research has an integral home in IGH. The Institute has benefited immensely from the contributions of Drs. Frank and Tremblay.
IGH thanks these board members and congratulates them on the exciting new roles they have recently taken up. Dr. Frank is the newly appointed Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. In this role, Dr. Frank will continue to advance gender and health research in the field of education. Dr. Tremblay has been appointed Director for the FRSQ Respiratory Health Network in Quebec. He has stated that one of his key objectives during his term will be to integrate gender and sex in the Respiratory Health Network Agenda. IGH will deeply miss both Drs. Frank and Tremblay but rests assured that they are continuing to advance the work of the Institute in these new frontiers.
IGH is pleased to announce that former IGH IAB Vice-Chair Dr. Joan Bottorff has been appointed by CIHR Governing Council as the new Chair of the IGH IAB. An IGH board member since 2007, Dr. Bottorff is a Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, and Director of the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her research program focuses on health promotion and health behaviour change in the context of cancer control with a particular focus on gender-related influences. IGH looks forward to working with Dr. Bottorff as the Institute embarks on a new phase of strategic development.
June
Mastering Methods & Measures at the 2011 IGH Summer Institute
IGH held its 3rd annual summer institute for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in gender, sex and health research on June 6-10, 2011. A multidisciplinary group of about 40 trainees from across Canada came together at the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus for this intensive training in methods and measures for gender, sex and health research. Throughout the week, trainees worked with mentors (expert researchers in the field) in plenary sessions devoted to quantitative, qualitative and biosocial approaches, as well as one-on-one consultations to facilitate applying key learnings to trainees' own projects. This year's summer institute also featured small-group master classes on specialized topics such as researching gender relations and health, sex differences in the pulmonary physiology of exercise, masculinities and health, and visual methods in gender and health research, among others. In addition to numerous selected readings, the summer institute curriculum incorporated the recently published textbook Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex and Health Research, co-edited by mentor Dr. John Oliffe and Dr. Lorraine Greaves (Sage 2012). The summer institute culminated in a poster session on the final day where trainees shared how their experiences at the summer institute will inform their research projects and programs.
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