Press Releases

NEW five-city Canadian study shows harms of “end demand” laws with police harassment linked to five times increase in inability to call 911

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Canada’s “end demand” legislation that criminalizes the purchase of sex and third parties impedes sex workers’ ability to seek police assistance when they are in danger, according to a new study from the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE) at the University of British Columbia, and University of Ottawa.

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Focus Areas

Research

Leading interdisciplinary, community-based, policy and clinical research to better understand and promote gender and sexual health equity among marginalized and under-serviced communities in BC, Canada and globally.

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Policy

Promoting evidence-based and ethical policy development on gender equity and sexual health to improve health and wellbeing.

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Practice

Providing leadership in research-to-practice through training opportunities, education and evidence-based best practices for a wide range of practitioners.

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Events

Dr. Greta Bauer: “Incorporating Intersectionality Into Your Quantitative Research”

register here Join us for Dr. Greta Bauer’s talk Incorporating intersectionality into your quantitative research. Dr. Bauer is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, and a CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chair. Her primary research interests are in social marginalization and health, particularly as related to sexual and gender minority communities, and in quantitative research methodology for studying communities that experience marginalization.

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Events

CGSHE Speaker Series: Dr. Tonia Poteat, “Intersectional Stigma Research for Transgender Health Justice”

Dr. Tonia Poteat, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at the Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill will present on “Intersectional Stigma Research for Transgender Health Justice”.

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