Events

“Women’s work” and wellbeing: Experiences from the frontlines of the COVID-19 response

CGSHE Speaker Series presents CGSHE faculty member Dr. Julia Smith and CGSHE trainee Alice Murage, who will discuss the impact of “women’s work” on women’s well being throughout the global pandemic and how we can learn from experiences of female health care workers and immigrant women in the accommodation and food services industry in BC.

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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

Leaving no one behind in the global sexual health agenda 

“Sexual rights and pleasure are missing from the Sustainable Development Goals – and that’s problematic,” said Dr. Carmen Logie, CGSHE faculty member and Peter Wall Visiting Scholar at CGSHE. They are foundational to achieving universal health care and sexual and reproductive health for all globally, and for communities erased from SDG discussions on social inequities –  LGBTQ persons and sex workers – sexual rights are critical to realizing access to universal health.

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News

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. 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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