Category: Webinars and Online Learning

Living Big Lives: an exploration of the generative entanglements of fatness, queerness, and disability

Posted On: Friday, May 5th, 2023

  Via 2SLGBTQ+ Health Hub Webinar Wednesday, May 17th, 9 AM Pacific time Fat bodies are rarely represented as joyful, valuable, or as sites of pleasure beyond fetishization. Instead, they are often the subjects of a hostile gaze, with visual representations of fatness in mainstream media tending to reflect negative stereotypes, perpetuating the idea of… Read more »

This Is Our Care: drawing on the lived experiences of transgender and gender diverse people to build community-driven gender-affirming care

Posted On: Friday, May 5th, 2023

  Via 2SLGBTQ+ Health Hub Webinar May 11th, 2023 at 10 AM Pacific time The rich variability of transgender (trans) and gender diverse (TGD) people’s social contexts, identities, and embodiments is increasingly recognized in the scholarship and policy that govern the provision of gender-affirming care. Yet, amid evolving expressions of cisnormativity and trans-antagonism across healthcare… Read more »

Community Discussion Forum on HIV/Hepatitis C Testing Technologies in BC

Posted On: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023

  Presenter: Shriya Hari, Health Educator at CATIE Moderator: J. Bajgai Date: April 27th, 2023 – 10:00 AM Pacific time   Description: Welcome to PAN Presents Community Discussion Forum on HIV/Hepatitis C Testing Technologies in BC. The webinar will feature a presentation from Shriya Hari from CATIE, who will provide insights on the latest testing… Read more »

“We Recognize This Magic in Each Other:” Research into TGD Peer Support

Posted On: Thursday, April 6th, 2023

Webinar: May 23, 2023 Time: 12- 1 PM Pacific time Connections between transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people are filled with potential. Despite the presence of peer support in TGD communities for generations, its exchange between TGD people – along with its power to promote resilience – have been under-researched in academic scholarship. We are… Read more »

Walking Our Talk: Everyday Decolonizing

Posted On: Monday, March 20th, 2023

Virtual Training Event March 29, 2023. We look forward to seeing you in this virtual training, which will engage approaches to incorporating decolonization ethics into our everyday practice in nonprofit and community-based work. There will be two featured sessions on March 29th, each focusing on strengthening our approaches to standing against colonialism in our work…. Read more »

5th Annual BC Substance Use Conference

Posted On: Friday, March 17th, 2023

BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) is very excited to be hosting their 5th Annual BC Substance Use Conference this April, 20–22nd at the PARQ Marriot on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people in what’s colonially called Vancouver. The theme of the conference is The Challenge of Change. There is… Read more »

Do vaccines reduce the harm of COVID-19 for people living with HIV and people who inject drugs in BC?

Posted On: Thursday, March 16th, 2023

A PAN Presents webinar   Date: April 3rd, 2023 at 11:00 AM Pacific time Presenter: Monte Strong, COVAXHIV Study Team member Moderator: S. Goff   People living with HIV (PLHIV) have been reported to be at increased risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes. Yet it remains unclear how vaccines work in this population as they were mostly underrepresented… Read more »

HIV and Hepatitis C Testing course with CATIE

Posted On: Friday, February 24th, 2023

  You and your coworkers are invited to take part in an upcoming online HIV and Hepatitis C Testing course! CATIE is partnering with PAN to deliver a training course for you and your colleagues in BC and beyond on HIV and Hepatitis C Testing. There is a full course outline below where you can… Read more »

Webinar: Hepatitis C Testing to Treatment Know-How

Posted On: Friday, February 17th, 2023

Date: Wednesday March 22, 2023 10-11 AM Pacific time We look forward to seeing you at the next webinar in our KnowledgeConnect series. KnowledgeConnect events help frontline organizations build their skills, health literacy, and community connections. We’ll be discussing hepatitis C in our KnowledgeConnect webinar on March 22nd.  Presenter Sofia Bartlett will share knowledge about… Read more »

Training on Governance: find out how your voice can make a difference

Posted On: Thursday, February 16th, 2023

  Join PLDI for the next training! March 16-30, 2023, Online   The next Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) training is on board governance. Learn what a board is and does, and whether this kind of work inspires you. Governance is a  module that requires the completion of PLDI Core Leadership Training before you apply. Learn more about… Read more »

Webinar: STIBBI Savvy to Support Your Work

Posted On: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023

Date: Wednesday March 15, 2023 Time: Noon-1PM Pacific time   We look forward to seeing you at the next webinar in our KnowledgeConnect series. KnowledgeConnect events help frontline organizations build their skills, health literacy, and community connections. On March 15th, we’ll welcome Venessa Ryan, who is the Senior Practice Lead in Epidemiology for Clinical Prevention… Read more »

Webinar: Clinicians as Sources of Mis- and Disinformation

Posted On: Monday, February 13th, 2023

  February 16, 2023 10-11 AM Pacific time   2SLGBTQIA+ people experience poorer health outcomes as a community, due in part to the difficulty of accessing information and care in our health systems that are both gender-affirming and stigma-free. This panel, hosted by Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights as part of Sexual and… Read more »