Events

CGSHE Speaker Series presents: Harlan Pruden – Two-Spirit Reconcilia(a)tion in Research: Culturally Accounting for & Affirming Two-Spirit People & Communities in Surveys

How can health research(ers) collect Two-Spirit data in a culturally safe and affirming way, in order to better promote rigorous science that considers biological sex and all genders (with a focus on Two-Spirit)? Harlan Pruden discusses how to expand our collective understanding(s) of health within a diversity framework.

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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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News

NEW – Lancet paper: COVID-19, Structural Racism & Migrant Health in Canada

A new paper by the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity’s Dr. Germaine Tuyisenge and Dr. Shira Goldenberg published in The Lancet calls for urgent action on structural racism amidst the global pandemic.

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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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