Posted On: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
To ensure the BC health research strategy will meet the needs of the health research community in BC, we are looking for input from a wide range of individuals. One element of our multi-pronged consultation process is an online survey that we are hoping will be completed by as many stakeholders as possible. The survey… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
To young gay men and their advocates, The Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC), in partnership with YouthCO, would like to invite you to the launch of the Stepping Up to the Future of Young Gay Men’s Health report. What is the report about? Last November, the Community-Based Research Centre, in partnership with YouthCO, gathered a diverse… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, May 27th, 2013
The CIHR Social Research Centre in HIV Prevention (SRC) invites you to an upcoming Social Drivers Speaker Series event, “Politics, Evidence and HIV Prevention”, by Dr. Justin Parkhurst of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Justin will be joining us on May 30th, from 4:30pm – 6:30pm at the Metropolitan Hotel in Toronto… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, May 27th, 2013
The world’s largest international open scientific conference on HIV/AIDS will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 19 to 22 July 2015 The International AIDS Society (IAS) has announced the selection of Vancouver as the host of the 8th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS2015).IAS 2015 will take place at the… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
June 7, 2013 Feature: Search Pyramids from the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools. [REGISTER HERE] 1pm EDT (10am PDT) Need a faster, more efficient way to find high quality research evidence? Searching online for research evidence can be frustrating. Searching can take a lot of time and may not produce the results you… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, May 9th, 2013
The Conference Report from our February 2013 Knowledge to Action event is now up on our website. The report captures the main themes of the event and also outlines the results of our evaluation of the conference, including lists of research and capacity building priorities identified by attendees. Click here to read the report. Please… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Our colleagues at the OHTN have launched two exciting education initiatives that will help build capacity in the field of community based HIV/AIDS research. The first is entitled the Learning Exchange for HIV/AIDS Peer Researchers (LEAP). LEAP provides high-quality, interactive and educational modules to support the work of peer researchers. LEAP collaborates with both community… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Discussions and research about the use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis as an HIV prevention tool continue to expand our understanding of how it might fit into our toolkit. In this guest blog post (originally published on PositiveLite.com) Robert Birch talks to Jody Jollimore of B.C.’s Health Initiative for Men, whose position on Pre-Exposure prophylaxis remains “cautiously… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
PAN COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH GRANTS & PARTNERSHIP COORDINATOR PURPOSE Throughout Canada, the importance and effectiveness of community-based research (CBR) to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the health and lives of people living with and affected by HIV has been well established. Through concentrated efforts to promote and develop CBR, it is possible to foster research… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Universities Without Walls HIV SOS Seminars Online Series welcomes Dr. Barry Adam (U of Windsor, Ontario HIV Treatment Network) who provides a thought-provoking talk titled “Where are we in HIV Reduction among Gay, Bisexual, and other Men who have Sex with Men?” and welcomes you online in an engaging seminar conversation. When? Watch Dr. Adam’s… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
The REACH Capacity Building Committee invites you to learn about: Respondent-Driven Sampling Respondent-driven sampling (RDS), combines “snowball sampling” (getting individuals to refer those they know, these individuals in turn refer those they know and so on) with a mathematical model that weights the sample to compensate for the fact that the sample was collected in… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
