Webinars and Virtual Events

Webinars and virtual trainings aim to support our communities to gain information, skills, and knowledge to strengthen their work.

KnowledgeConnect Webinars and Virtual Trainings

The KnowledgeConnect series helps build capacity, health literacy, and community connections. Themed virtual trainings (3 or more related sessions) and single focus webinars offer insight into new and innovative approaches to work, new research that will contribute to shared community knowledge, advocacy issues, new community resources, or the social determinants of health that affect HIV and hepatitis C, and harm reduction. See series.

PAN Presents Webinars

The PAN Presents series connects PAN member organizations with provincial Health Authority representatives, provincial and federal funding organizations, and representatives from governmental ministries. You can learn the latest information from these voices, and bring your questions to the table in these exchanges. See series.

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Virtual Trainings (2 or more sessions linked by theme)

Advocacy, Policy and Public Health

Health Determinants

Health Authority and Government Networking

Professional Development

Research and Evaluation

We greatly appreciate the vision of our government funders and their ongoing commitment to supporting the work of PAN. In particular we gratefully acknowledge the Public Health Agency of Canada – HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Upcoming Webinars

Building Team Strength From the Ground Up

Webinar On: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 - 9:00 am

Register now! On October 9th we are hosting a 3-part virtual event to help you strengthen your organization’s roots and growth. Three related sessions will help your team examine your organizational health, centre people with lived and living experiences, and strengthen your community connections. The day will begin with an interactive workshop on Nonprofit Lifecycles… Read more »

Past Webinars

Taking Care of Each Other in Times of Change and Crisis

Recorded On: Thursday, October 21st, 2021

This was the Special Keynote Presentation from PAN’s 2021 AGM (October 21, 2021). Len talked about how we can mobilize Indigenous knowledge and values to care for one another as teams, organizations, and human beings doing work on the frontlines. Doing the “good work” as Len calls it is really just caring for fellow… Read more »

Risk Mitigation and Safer Supply: What’s Next and What’s Needed

Presenter: Guy Felicella and Kevin Hollett

Moderator: J. Evin Jones

Recorded On: Thursday, October 14th, 2021 - 11:00 am

This addition to our PAN Presents webinar series focuses on safer supply. More than a year ago, BC introduced the clinical guidance Risk Mitigation in the Context of Dual Health Emergencies. Hear about how the guidance has been updated to reflect lived and clinical experiences as drug poisonings are worse than ever and the… Read more »

Ensuring Supportive Services for Men in Sex Work

Presenter: Health Initiatives for Men team

Recorded On: Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 - 10:00 am

This webinar in our KnowledgeConnect series focuses on men in sex work, who deal with specific needs and challenges, from access to health services, to safety considerations, and dealing with stigma. Join presenters from Health Initiative for Men (HIM) and Peers The HIM and Peers team shared their perspectives and best practices in creating… Read more »

Promoting access to hepatitis C care for youth who use drugs

Presenter: Jessica Jacob

Recorded On: Thursday, July 22nd, 2021 - 10:00 am

Hepatitis C is highly treatable, and once a person begins treatment, they can be cured within a few months. Yet starting treatment isn’t as easy as that for many. In this webinar, researcher Jessica Jacob shares findings from a study looking at how youth who use drugs experience hep C related healthcare access. Presenter Jessica… Read more »

Let’s get together with a small carbon footprint

Presenter: Dr. Laura U. Marks and Dr. Stephen Makonin

Recorded On: Thursday, May 27th, 2021 - 10:00 am

As a follow up to the Earth Day Special Webinar on Health, Equity and Climate Change, we hosted PAN Presents: Let’s get together with a small carbon footprint. Our work time and meetings have a hidden carbon footprint! Online video, including streaming, videoconferencing, and video embedded in apps, uses a lot of electricity. Since about… Read more »

Ancient Stone Medicine

Presenter: Melanie Rivers

Recorded On: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 - 10:00 am

This community gathering was not recorded, to respect the unique creativity of its shared time and space. This past year has been hard, and ongoing stress is drawing a lot from us all. This special community gathering was to gain medicine from the ancient stone people. They have lived so long that they have experienced… Read more »

An Earth Day Special Webinar on Health, Equity and Climate Change

Presenter: Dr. Maya Gislason

Recorded On: Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 - 10:00 am

April 22 is Earth Day and PAN was pleased to host a PAN Presents… special Earth Day webinar with Dr. Maya Gislason. This webinar presented opportunities to think about an equity approach to climate change – what are some of the impacts of climate change on health equity? How can we understand the relationship between… Read more »

Build Your Trans-Friendly Services

Presenter: Gwen Haworth, Trans Care BC

Recorded On: Thursday, February 25th, 2021 - 10:00 am

“Gwen had a really beautiful way of helping people understand the diversity of transition and experience.” Working within HIV, hep C and harm reduction, you are likely used to working with folks of varied sexual identities, but might not be as experienced working with people along the gender continuum. We partnered with Gwen Haworth to… Read more »

Contextualizing COVID-19 – Key messages and current implications for frontline service providers

Presenter: Shriya Hari, CATIE

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 17th, 2021 - 9:30 am

Contextualizing COVID-19 – Key messages and current implications for frontline service providers working in HIV and hepatitis C covered the biomedical basics of COVID-19 and the implications of COVID-19 on communities affected by HIV and hepatitis C. Developed by CATIE and adapted for communities in BC, this on-demand recording has a a formal presentation… Read more »

Alcohol: Community Trends and Impact

Presenter: Brittany Graham, Dr. Adam Sherk, Dr. Bernie Pauly, Michelle, Dr. Kiffer Card, Meaghan Brown

Recorded On: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 - 9:00 am

#AlcoholHarmReductionPAN We were pleased to work in collaboration with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR) on this day-long virtual event* featuring discussion on alcohol use patterns and harm reduction in British Columbia. Scroll to bottom for resources to read and download after viewing webinars. “Alcohol and tobacco use contributed 89% of… Read more »

Highlights from Summit 2020: Resistance and Responsibility

Recorded On: Thursday, December 17th, 2020 - 10:00 am

Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) produces Summit, an annual knowledge exchange and capacity building national conference on gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit, and queer men’s (GBT2Q) health. This summary shares key highlights from the first-ever virtual Summit, which brought together service providers, researchers, activists, and community members from across Canada around the theme of Resistance and Responsibility…. Read more »

Safe Supply and The Role of Community in Saving Lives and Changing Systems: A Call to Action

Presenter: Guy Felicella

Recorded On: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020

Presentation ends at 1:03 followed by questions and comments. Keynote Session at AGM 2020 The overdose crisis continues to ravage our province, taking lives, devastating families and forever-changing communities. COVID-19 has only made the situation worse, greatly increasing the unnecessary loss of life and other harms. Now more than ever, there is a need for… Read more »