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.
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: 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 »
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: 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 »
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 »
Presenter: Mary Clare Kennedy, PhD and Michelle Olding, MPH
Moderator: J. Evin Jones
Recorded On: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 - 10:00 am
This webinar in the PAN Presents webinar series focuses on research and evaluation of overdose prevention sites. Mary Clare Kennedy, PhD and Michelle Olding, MPH of the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and the University of British Columbia present research examining benefits and challenges of overdose prevention sites, including studies examining health impacts… Read more »
Presenter: Guy Felicella
Moderator: J. Evin Jones
Recorded On: Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 - 1:00 pm
This session in our PAN Presents webinar series concentrates on alternative models of safer supply, something that stirred up interest during the October 2021 webinar with the BCCSU. Guy Felicella expands on his statement “We need to meet substance users where they’re at, and not the medical system. Heroin co-op’s and/or compassion clubs would give… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
