Events

Centering Equity for Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: The Impact of Structural Racism & the Criminal Legal Response

CGSHE Speaker Series presents Drs. Decker and Holliday, who wil discuss the influence of structural racism and gender discrimination on safety and response strategies among intimate partner survivors with a focus on historical contexts of abuse, survivors’ engagement with and preferences for justice systems, and the role of housing in achieving survivor safety and stability.

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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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Blog

New CGSHE research exposes serious inequities in BC’s health care system that endanger im/migrant women, children

The BC Federation of Labour has endorsed a petition launched by the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity to end British Columbia’s mandatory three-month wait period for health coverage for new residents to the province. The petition, which calls on the BC Medical Services Commission to permanently eliminate the “wait period” policy, is based on new research by CGSHE’s IRIS Project and Sanctuary Health that shows the policy disproportionately harms racialized im/migrant women and their families. Published in the peer-reviewed journal BMJ Open, the research draws on interviews with women who were im/migrants to British Columbia, as well as service providers who support them. The findings expose serious inequities in Canada’s health care system that endanger the health and wellbeing of im/migrant women in BC.

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CGSHE

Access to Responsive Justice seeks Indigenous, Black & POC voices

Access to Responsive Justice is seeking Indigenous, Black and People of Colour who have been impacted by gender-based violence to help guide its research. Hosted by the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE) in partnership with community organizations, Access to Responsive Justice is a University of British Columbia community-based research project.

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