Recorded On: Wednesday, April 10th, 2024 - 10:00 am
Meet the team, see the vision, and learn how BC’s new STBBI dashboard can support your work. The dashboard team includes community members and BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) staff. This webinar shares their vision for a tool that is easy to use and understand. The dashboard information can help you in… Read more »
Recorded On: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 - 9:00 am
Our first virtual event of 2024 featured conversation to build core knowledge for practice and policy development in frontline support work. It featured two different topics embedded in relationships, as providing services to a couple can present intricate layers that differ from working with an individual. Each session offered information to help attendees enhance connections… Read more »
Presenter: Charlene Burmeister and Kurt Lock
Recorded On: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 - 12:00 pm
PAN held its Annual General Meeting virtually on Thursday, October 19, 2023. We convened a special keynote panel called Addressing the deadly gap in drug policy: treatment and harm reduction are not enough. We need safer supply. Presentations were by Charlene Burmeister (Coalition of Substance Users of the North) and Kurt Lock (Research Coordinator at… Read more »
Presenter: Dr. Troy Grennan
Recorded On: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 - 10:00 am
At least three out of four people will be exposed to human papillomavirus (HPV) at some point in their lives, and there are different kinds, or strains. Some strains cause warts, which are generally not dangerous; other strains can lead to cervical or anal cancer if not detected. In this webinar, Dr. Troy Grennan shared… Read more »
Recorded On: Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 - 9:00 am
World Hepatitis Day is an annual day of recognition, education, and advocacy on July 28th. In the lead up, we hosted this virtual community event Wednesday July 19, 2023 to look at some of the layers of living with hepatitis C. The recordings of the sessions are available below. Program Micro-elimination of hep C… Read more »
Presenter: Shriya Hari, Health Educator at CATIE
Moderator: J. Bajgai
Recorded On: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 - 10:00 am
Our Community Discussion Forum on HIV/Hepatitis C Testing Technologies in BC featured a presentation from Shriya Hari from CATIE, who provided insights on the latest testing technologies available for HIV and Hepatitis C in Canada. Following Shriya’s presentation, Daniel Boyle from HIM shared the organizational experience in implementing HIV Self-Testing. Suggested audience: The… Read more »
Presenter: Monte Strong, COVAXHIV Study Team member
Moderator: S. Goff
Recorded On: Monday, April 3rd, 2023 - 11:00 am
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 in the early vaccine trials that determined vaccine approvals. We utilized a population-level data platform which links COVID-19 data on testing and… Read more »
Presenter: Sofia Bartlett, Senior Scientist in sexually transmitted infections and blood borne infections (STIBBI) at the BC Centre for Disease Control.
Recorded On: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 - 10:00 am
In this KnowledgeConnect webinar, Sofia Bartlett presented information about different kinds of hepatitis; hepatitis C testing and what different methods can tell us; hepatitis C prevalence in BC, and where we are at in meeting health outcome targets. She also talked about treatment, what a “cure” means; reinfection, and more. Presentation slides This webinar… Read more »
Recorded On: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 - 9:00 am
We were excited to host this virtual training series looking at gender constructs and experiences along the gender continuum. Our goal for this series is that it supports people in making their work more affirming, welcoming, and culturally safe*, reducing stigma and discrimination. Turning up the Outrage Machine with Dr. Gerald Walton Suggested… Read more »
Presenter: Elizabeth Racz, National Research & Program Officer, Realize
Moderator: Melissa Egan, National Lead Episodic Disabilities, Realize
Recorded On: Thursday, January 19th, 2023 - 12:00 pm
Join us for a webinar with the Canadian HIV and Disability Project (CaNHDis) of Realize: A National Environmental Scan of HIV and Disability Resources Register Summary: Systemic ableism is increasingly being identified as a major barrier in Canada’s HIV Response (PHAC, 2020). Realize’s ongoing dialogues across the HIV and Disability sectors have flagged systemic ableism… Read more »
Recorded On: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 - 12:00 pm
As part of our Annual General Meeting, we welcomed Trevor Stratton, Indigenous Leadership Policy Manager for CAAN as keynote speaker: The key to ending HIV/AIDS: Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous peoples Trevor Stratton is a 57-year-old, two-spirit citizen of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation near Toronto, Canada with mixed English and Ojibwe… Read more »
Presenter: Sally Maguet MPH and Sally McBride MPH
Moderator: Madeline Gallard
Recorded On: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 - 11:30 am
British Columbia saw the effects of climate change first hand in 2021 with heavy rains in the fall, wildfires and extreme heat in the summer. We will need to prepare and adapt our communities and our systems for more frequent and extreme climate stressors in the coming decades, ensuring that we keep equity top of… Read more »
