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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.
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.
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.
Promoting evidence-based and ethical policy development on gender equity and sexual health to improve health and wellbeing.
Providing leadership in research-to-practice through training opportunities, education and evidence-based best practices for a wide range of practitioners.
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.
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”.