Phi Women

The PhiWomen Team is presenting at the 7th Australian Women’s Health Conference, May 7-10, 2013 in Sydney, Australia.

Lorraine Greaves, Ann Pederson, and Nancy Poole from the BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and Rose Durey, Women’s Health Victoria, are presenting at the conference.

Title: Envisioning Gender Transformative Health Promotion for Women
Goals: Identify a new approach to health promotion for women; describe a new framework and planning tool and our process of development, and; distinguish gender transformative initiatives from gender-specific and gender-sensitive initiatives in relation to a range of topics.

A session on promoting women’s health and preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will be held in Vancouver on the evening of February 28th as a part of the 5th International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

FASD prevention involves much more than providing information about the risks of alcohol use in pregnancy. Over the past two decades, Canada has developed a multi-layered approach to FASD prevention (FASDCANADIANPERSPECTIVES_PHAC/ http://bit.ly/VR6dMM ). This session will use current examples of FASD-related policies, programs, and initiatives from across Canada. The session will highlight the work of individuals working in a range of contexts, including government, university and community-based research, program development and service provision, community advocacy, and alcohol policy development.  It will also provide the opportunity for participants to collectively discuss principles levels of prevention, and the range of people who need to work together to achieve the goals of improving both women’s and child health in the prevention of FASD.

The session has the goal of inspiring people from across Canada and internationally to engage in effective work on FASD prevention.

The session is organized by the Network Action Team of FASD Prevention, a part of the CanFASD Research Network.

To register for the conference and the session:  http://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/FASd/

Only 6 days left to register!

Women’s Heart Health Summit
Heart Health Promotion: What Works for Women?
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
8:00am – 4:00pm
 
No Registration Fee. Registration deadline: February 6, 2013. Telehealth services available.
 
More women in Canada die from heart disease and stroke than all forms of cancer put together. Preventing cardiovascular disease could save thousands of women’s lives and improve their quality of life.
 
Come together with other health care providers, managers, policy makers and researchers to discuss and advance a gendered approach to heart health promotion that considers the needs among and between populations of women.
 
The aims of the summit are to:
-Share knowledge about the prevalence of heart disease in BC women and the implications for primary and secondary prevention -Share insights and experiences about a gendered approach to heart health promotion for women -Identify opportunities for collaboration to improve heart health promotion for women in BC
 
For more information and to register: http://www.bccewh.bc.ca/news-events/default.htm

 Promoting health in women through gender transformative policy and practice.

Women’s Health Victoria invites you to a forum to discuss a new Framework and tool for women’s health promotion emerging from the Promoting Health in Women project (PhiWomen). Come and hear about its development and its potential for gender transformative policy and practice. PhiWomen is an interdisciplinary research team funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to reduce gender and health inequities by advancing effective health promotion for women. PhiWomen has developed, in consultation with stakeholders, a framework to guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidencebased health promotion to improve women’s health. The team is led by the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in Women’s Health (BCCEWH) in Canada.

Date:       Tuesday 27 November
Time:     10am to 11.30am
Venue:  Women’s Health Victoria, Level 8, 255 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia
RSVP:    Please email or call Rose on 9664 9302 by Friday 23 November. Places are limited.

Dr. Lorraine Greaves, Co‐Principal Investigator on the PhiWomen team, will lead the forum. Dr Greaves is a medical sociologist, Senior Investigator at the BCCEWH in Canada and former Executive Director at the BCCEWH from 1997–2009. She has worked in academic, government, education and NGO settings. Dr. Greaves is an international expert in tobacco use, women and gender, and researches addictions, violence and trauma issues. She is the Lead Mentor of IMPART, a CIHR funded training program in gender, women addiction and mental health issues. She has published eight books, including two methods books; one on social research and one on designing sex, gender and health research. Her most recent book is Becoming Trauma‐Informed (with Nancy Poole), a guide for health and social services in creating accessible environments for all. Dr. Greaves also carries out a research and knowledge translation program aimed at integrating gender and diversity analyses to health knowledge, programs, interventions, policies, and information.

Members of the PhiWomen Team will be in Montréal at Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Gender and Health conference Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research on October 29-31, 2012. Lorraine Greaves, Ann Pederson and Nancy Poole will be presenting and their talk is entitled Generating an Emergent Health Promotion Framework for Women.  Find out more about the extensive framework consultation that just ended.