Webinar Category: PAN Presents

Taking Action on Viral Hepatitis

Presenter: Sofia Bartlett (BC Centre for Disease Control) and Mo Korchinski (Unlocking the Gates)

Recorded On: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 - 8:30 am

World Hepatitis Day (WHD) is an annual day of recognition, education, and advocacy on July 28th. The 2025 theme was Let’s break it down. “Let’s break down the barriers holding us back from a hepatitis-free world. The World Hepatitis Alliance, our partners, allies, and our 400 members in 120 countries are calling for action to… Read more »

Is BC going to be able to eliminate viral hepatitis?

Presenter: Jennifer van Gennip

Recorded On: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 - 10:00 am

  Canada committed to the World Health Organization’s goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. Each province and territory is responsible for their own health services, and Action Hepatitis Canada (AHC) is tracking how each area is doing.  AHC Executive Director Jennifer van Gennip took us through national information and… Read more »

Peer-led models for STBBI testing and linkage to care: a case study series

Presenter: Dr. Sofia Bartlett

Recorded On: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 - 11:00 am

  In this presentation, Dr. Sofia Bartlett discussed various strategies for improving access to prevention, testing, and linkage to care for sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections. She highlighted four case studies: linkage to care without testing; dry blood spot (DBS) collection; peer phlebotomy, and mobile testing and treatment. For each case study, she looked at… Read more »

PAN World AIDS Day webinar: The numbers that should drive effective, responsive, and equitable HIV and STBBI services

Recorded On: Monday, December 2nd, 2024 - 12:00 pm

  As part of awareness events around World AIDS Day and during Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week, we hosted a free online webinar featuring presenters from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). This STBBI surveillance update highlighted the most recent results and trends concerning HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis, and how you can keep track… Read more »

Reconciliation from an Indigenous Perspective: 2024 AGM Keynote

Recorded On: Thursday, October 17th, 2024 - 12:00 pm

We were pleased to welcome Rachelle Dallaire*, BSW/MSW/RSW, Executive Director of Indigenous Perspectives Society as keynote speaker at our Annual General Meeting virtually on October 17, 2024.  Since 2021, we have had the privilege of building relationship and learning from Rachelle and the team at Indigenous Perspectives Society (IPS), working on organizational changes that reflect… Read more »

STIBBI update – HIV and Syphilis

Recorded On: Thursday, December 7th, 2023

  Speakers: Elaine Chan, MPH, CPH (she/her) Teddy Consolacion, PhD (she/they) Epidemiologists with Clinical Prevention Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control   Elaine Chan and Teddy Consolacion pull out some key messages for the community based response based on current data and comparing back over the years.

2023 AGM Keynote panel on Addressing the Deadly Gap in Drug Policy

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 »

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

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 »

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

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 »

The key to ending HIV/AIDS: Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous peoples

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 »

STI and Blood-borne Infections: Testing and Cases 2017-2021 in BC

Presenter: Theodora B. Consolacion, Ph.D., Epidemiologist, Clinical Prevention Services, BCCDC

Moderator: J. Evin Jones

Recorded On: Thursday, June 16th, 2022 - 10:00 am

This webinar in our PAN Presents series focused on an epidemiological snap-shot of STI and blood-borne Infections (STBBI) across 5 years. Testing for STBBIs fell in 2020 coinciding with the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn about changes in test positivity and cases compared to previous years.   Suggested audience: HIV and hepatitis C organization… Read more »

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

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 »