Category: Research

Understanding Affirming Communities, Relationships, & Networks   What’s the UnACoRN Study? Only you know your true sexuality and gender. But sometimes other people will try to influence how you feel, express, or identify. We’re a team of researches who want to hear about the times when your sexual and gender feelings, expressions, or identities are… Read more »

Communities, Alliances & Networks (CAAN) has partnered with the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, with the support of a CIHR grant, to explore how harm reduction programs and services have adapted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are particularly interested in how the pandemic has impacted harm reduction programs, what adaptations were created in… Read more »

This research team wants to better understand peoples’ experiences under the Mental Health Act (involuntary detainment and treatment) and other coercive and discriminatory practices (based on race, class, gender, etc. One piece of the research is focus groups with people with lived experience and another is interviews with key people who work in the system…. Read more »

The National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) out of the University of Manitoba, together with the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH), is conducting a research study on the impacts COVID-19 has had on Indigenous Peoples access to STBBI-related services and care. We hope the results of the study can lead to improved… Read more »