As part of our commitment to building a Network for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM), including Trans and Two-Spirit men, the Community Based Research Centre (CBRC) has partnered with CATIE to offer a webinar series dedicated to gbMSM health.
Launched in January 2017, the webinar series will be offered on the last Tuesday of each month. The target audience includes community and public health professionals, advocates and individuals with an interest in improving gbMSM health in BC and elsewhere. Evidence-based and intended to build capacity through knowledge exchange, webinars will be delivered by leading experts in topics ranging from the overdose crisis in BC to Canada’s response to PrEP access.
The first webinar will be held on January 31st, 2017 at 10h PST (13h EST): Responding to the Overdose Crisis In BC: Implications for Gay Men’s Health providers.
In this webinar we will review what is known regarding current drug use trends among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in BC, and describe the current overdose crisis related to fentanyl consumption in BC. We will then describe the current provincial response to the overdose crisis including the naloxone distribution program, focusing on the information that is relevant for service providers working with gay men to know.
Dr. Mark Gilbert is the Medical Director of Clinical Prevention Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control, and an Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Population and Public Health, UBC. Mark has expertise in public health programs and research related to gay men’s health, HIV and STI testing, and online health services.
Dr. Jane Buxton is the harm reduction lead at BCCDC and Professor at UBC, School of Population and Public Health. Jane developed the Drug Overdose and Alert Partnership and introduced the take home naloxone program in BC in 2012. Her research includes mixed methods and includes people with lived experience in developing priorities for harm reduction research, policy and program implementation and evaluation.