On Thursday, September 17th from 9:30 to 11:00 AM PT, PAN and CanHepC will be co-hosting a webinar to share key findings from the BC Hepatitis Elimination What We Heard Report (also available here along with other provincial reports) and create space for dialogue about what those findings mean in practice.
The session will present the BC Viral Hepatitis Elimination Roadmap initiative, the resulting report, and explore how the included recommendations resonate across different communities, service settings, and systems, with a strong focus on community-based settings and organizations. Through moderated discussion, speakers will reflect on progress, persistent barriers, and opportunities to accelerate hepatitis elimination efforts in BC and across Canada.
We would love to have you join us for the morning!
Who you’ll hear from:
Dr. Sofia Bartlett is a PhD trained scientist committed to advancing equity-oriented approaches to prevention, care, and surveillance of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) and other communicable diseases. She currently serves as an Interim Scientific Director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control; providing strategic and scientific leadership for communicable disease monitoring and surveillance, as well as for policies and programs to address health issues associated with communicable diseases. Sofia is also an Assistant Professor (Partner) in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and conducts applied public health research focused on improving population level health and well-being through reducing the impact of communicable diseases on people experiencing incarceration or substance use. Across all her work, Sofia aims to disrupt systems of stigma by amplifying the voices of people most affected by health inequities.
Marion Selfridge is a research manager, focusing on HIV and Hepatitis C treatment at the Cool Aid Community Health Centre. She coordinates the hep C peer testing point of care program that has tested over 2700 people for hep C on outreach. The Cool Aid Community Health Centre offers primary care through a successful multi-disciplinary, trauma-informed model. They have expertise in hepatitis C, HIV, opioid agonist therapy, and complex mental health care.
Mo Korchinski RSW is the Executive Director of Unlocking the Gates Services Society in British Columbia, Canada. A Registered Social Worker with lived experience of addiction, incarceration, hepatitis C, and long-term recovery, Mo has dedicated nearly two decades to improving health and justice outcomes for people impacted by substance use and the criminal legal system. She leads peer-driven programs that support individuals leaving custody through health navigation, hepatitis C testing and treatment, housing, probation support, and community reintegration. Her work has helped thousands of people reconnect with healthcare, reduce barriers to treatment, and successfully transition from incarceration to the community. Mo is an internationally recognized speaker, researcher, and author whose work bridges lived experience, public health, and systems change. She is committed to advancing equitable, trauma-informed, and person-centred approaches that improve health, dignity, and hope for people who use drugs and those affected by incarceration.
Jennifer Hoy is the Neyoh-bez Nats’oone’ (High Acuity Support Services) Coordinator for Soonats’ooneh Community Health Center. For more than 32 years, Soonats’ooneh has provided accessible health services to marginalized groups, including Indigenous people, people who use substances, those who are marginally housed or unhoused, and people living with HIV. Translated as Home of Healing in the Dakelh language, Neyoh-bez Nats’oone’ provides wrap-around support for those living with or at risk of HIV and the hepatitis C Virus (HCV). Developed in partnership with the people who are served by these services and other supporting organizations, it offers a safe space and uses a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, combining Indigenous teachings, the medicine wheel, and Western medicine to address the needs of people living with HIV/HCV.
Jennifer van Gennip is the Executive Director of Action Hepatitis Canada, a pan-Canadian coalition of over 80 community-based organizations holding the government accountable to the commitment to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. Jennifer specializes in messaging and communication campaigns for policy or social change, and helping communities discover the collective power they hold when they organize together. In addition to her work in hepatitis, she is an active advocate in the affordable housing and homelessness sector and the co-chair of the Ontario Alliance to End Homelessness. She is a graduate of Western University and lives in Barrie, ON.
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