Category: Community-Based Research

CGSHE Speaker Series: Incorporating Intersectionality Into Your Quantitative Research

Posted On: Friday, January 29th, 2021

CGSHE Speaker Series presents: Dr. Greta Bauer CIHR Sex & Gender Science Chair / Western University Incorporating Intersectionality Into Your Quantitative Research Date: Thursday February 18 Time: 12:00-1:00 PM Pacific time Via Zoom: Register now   About the talk: Since Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality in 1989, there’s been much dialogue about how it could be better utilized… Read more »

5 Questions with Edi Young, Peer Research Associate for the Making it Work Project

Posted On: Thursday, January 14th, 2021

Edi is a Peer Research Associate with the Making it Work Community Based Research Study.  What first piqued your interest in the HIV sector? My interest in this work is a result of my own experience in having illness. It is because of this journey that it became very evident to me that although there… Read more »

Check it out! Register for the Evaluation MAP Evaluation Series workshop: The role of systematic reviews in intervention research

Posted On: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021

Are you a researcher or practitioner working on program design or evaluation? Would you like a better understanding of Systematic Reviews? Are you interested in Implementation Science? Join the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael’s Hospital for their workshop: The role of systematic reviews in intervention research. The event is free and… Read more »

5 Questions with Daniel Sands, Peer Research Associate for the Making it Work Project

Posted On: Friday, December 18th, 2020

Daniel is a Peer Research Associate with the Making it Work Community Based Research Study.  What first piqued your interest in the HIV sector? After I got healthy and strong enough to go back to work after my own HIV and cancer diagnoses in September 2015 and following treatment, I began working in the HIV… Read more »

Northern Alberta clinics testing a Canadian-made dual syphilis and HIV tests that could impact Alberta’s current syphilis outbreak

Posted On: Friday, December 18th, 2020

Dr. Ameeta Singh, clinical professor of medicine in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and infectious diseases specialist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and the Edmonton Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinic, is leading a clinical trial to screen at-risk Albertans for HIV and syphilis using dual syphilis and HIV point-of-care tests. Northern Alberta and Edmonton have seen a severe syphilis outbreak since July 2019. Dr. Singh says “it is important to test for… Read more »

Listen to Stacy Leblanc and Sean Rourke talk about HIV self-testing, now available in Canada, on Global News Radio

Posted On: Friday, December 18th, 2020

Last month we celebrated exciting news on Nov. 3, 2020 when Health Canada gave final approval for Canada’s first HIV self-test, bioLytical’s blood-based INSTI HIV Self Test. This recent approval is a critical milestone in addressing the HIV epidemic in Canada. Advocates expect that HIV self-testing will increase access to testing by giving Canadians more… Read more »

Check It Out – Soft Launch of the Journal of Indigenous HIV Research’s Navigating Allyship issue

Posted On: Monday, December 7th, 2020

The AHA Centre at Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), is pleased to share a “soft launch” of  Volume 11 of the Journal of Indigenous HIV Research (JIHR). Volume 11’s theme is “Navigating Allyship: What does it mean to work together in service to the community?” and represents a partnership between the AHA Centre and the… Read more »

Check out the Findings from PAN’s 2020 BC Testing Needs Assessment!

Posted On: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Testing technologies for different sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) have been changing rapidly as new testing interventions are constantly being developed and introduced for wider use. Over the summer of 2020, PAN reached out to 17 of our members and allied stakeholders to talk with them about the changing testing landscape and how it might impact their work, including the HIV self-testing (HIVST)… Read more »

Job Posting: Research Coordinator, Making it Work Study

Posted On: Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Status: Number of hours/week is flexible and will be decided on with the right candidate, at a minimum the position would be 0.5 FTE but would consider additional FTEs depending on the candidate Time Period: Position is available immediately – for one year, with possibility of extension, FTE for a new employment agreement would be… Read more »

Check It Out – Sex in the time of COVID-19: preliminary survey results

Posted On: Monday, November 23rd, 2020

The Digital Sexual Health Initiative (DiSHI) describes themselves as “a group of researchers, program leaders, and policy-makers that have been working together since 2009 on studies about the individual, system and population impact of online and other digital public health interventions[.]” (DiSHI, 2020). DiSHI has shared a new resource – a report sharing preliminary results… Read more »