Webinar Category: PAN Presents

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

Webinar 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 immunizations… 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 »

Research on benefits and challenges of overdose prevention sites

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 »

Safer Supply through Compassion Clubs with Guy Felicella of BCCSU

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

HIV, hepatitis c and Syphilis Testing and Cases for 2020 in BC

Presenter: Dr. Theodora B. Consolacion

Recorded On: Thursday, September 24th, 2020

  As part of the Collective Impact Network meeting, PAN hosted a short presentation called “HIV, Hepatitis C and Syphilis Testing and Cases for 2020 in BC”, followed by an unrecorded Q&A.  The results presented were from 2016 – 2020 (estimated).  They included: HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis testing and percent positivity HIV, hepatitis C… Read more »

PAN Presents… CBRC Webinar on New Testing Tech

Presenter: Chris Draenos, Darren Ho, Community Based Research Centre

Recorded On: Thursday, June 25th, 2020 - 9:30 am

After years of advocacy, Health Canada is expected to approve the first HIV self-test in the country. As testing is the critical first step in HIV prevention, treatment, and care cascade, HIV self-testing will be an additional tool in our tool-box to reach GBTQ2+ men who experience vulnerabilities for HIV as well as the undiagnosed…. Read more »