Dr. Kate Shannon (she/her)
Kate Shannon, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) is a global health policy leader, consultant, and researcher focused on sexual and reproductive health and social justice. She is a Professor of Social Medicine and Associate Faculty in the School of Population and Public Health and Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program at the University of British Columbia. She has held a number of leadership and advisory positions over the last decade, including a Canada Research Chair in Gender Equity, Sexual Health and Global Policy (2014-2024) and a 5-year term as executive director at CGSHE (2018-2022), in a shared leadership with Dr. Jill Chettiar (associate director) and Dr. Brittany Bingham (director of Indigenous research, 2020-2024), before returning full-time to UBC. You can read more about her work there.
Dr. A.J. Lowik (they/them)
Dr. A.J. Lowik (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Lethbridge as of July 1, 2024. Prior to their faculty appointment, they were the Gender Equity Advisor at CGSHE (2020-2021) and then postdoctoral fellow at UBC (2022-2024) with Professor Shannon. Their qualitative, mixed-methods and arts-based research explores trans people’s health, wellness and experiences accessing healthcare, with a particular focus on reproductive and sexual health. Dr. Lowik’s work spans menstruation, abortion, perinatal mental health, pregnancy, fertility, sterilization and menopause, alongside substance use and mental health; they are also interested in medical, nursing and midwifery education, addressing the erasure of intersex, trans and Two-Spirit people from formal healthcare curricula. Dr. Lowik leads the CGSHE’s Gender & Sex in Methods & Measurement Research Equity Toolkit. The GSMM toolkit includes nine detailed, open access and self-guided tools for researchers who…
Pressing Onward: How Migrant Mothers Resist Legal Violence
In this presentation, Dr. CerdeƱa discusses how state failure in Latin America drives migration to the United States, how racist and capitalist policies of immigration enforcement control migrant bodies, and how migrant mothers living in Connecticut demonstrate āimperative resilienceā to build futures for their families. WATCH NOW
Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Im/migrant Health Service Access
This talk summarizes key findings and recommendations from the IRIS project, which is completing 5 years of mixed-methods data collection and analysis understand the health experiences of immigrants and migrants (im/migrants) in British Columbia. WATCH NOW
Caring for Older People Living with HIV/AIDS in Long-Term Care & Assisted Living
Leah Coppella (she/her) is a PhD student in the SFU Department of Geography, supervised by Dr. Valorie Crooks. Leah is a health services researcher, freelancer and community organizer. WATCH NOW
Relationship Between Eviction & Syndemics Outcomes Among Women Living with HIV
Bea Lehmann (she/her) is a CGSHE Trainee and an MSc student in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia supervised by Dr. Kathleen Deering. She is using data from the SHAWNA project, focusing on eviction amongst women living with HIV. WATCH NOW
Geographic Access to Gender-Affirming Care
In this talk, Dr. Avery Everhart explores geographic access to gender-affirming care. She outlines a case study modeling access to gender-affirming hormone therapy in Texas, and looks at some preliminary data on travel patterns in accessing gender-affirming care. WATCH NOW
Troubling the Taken for Granted: Gender & Sex in Health Research
Dr. A.J. Lowik explores common methodological and measurement missteps when it comes to research on gender and sex. They demonstrate how accuracy, precision and inclusion can facilitate more robust and equitable research praxis. WATCH NOW
Moderated Q&A with the Trainees
Co-hosted by CGSHE in the UBC Faculty of Medicine and SFU Faculty of Health Sciences, the Fall 2023 Trainee Research Symposium took place on October 26 in the UBC SPPH Building. The symposium featured five of CGSHEās trainees. Following their presentations, CGSHE Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. A.J. Lowik led a moderated Q&A with our trainees. WATCH NOW
The AMPLIFY Project: Towards Equitable & Culturally Safe Health
Chelsey Perry (she/they) and Sasha Askarian (she/her) are a part of the AMPLIFY Project. The projectĀ aims to privilege Indigenous community-based voices to directly inform culturally safe and equitable sexual, reproductive health and justice for Indigenous women (cis and trans), Two-Spirit and gender diverse peoples throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. WATCH NOW