Webinar Category: PAN Presents

2026 AGM Panel Presentation – “Leading Through Experience: Stories of Resilience, Growth, and Empowerment”

Recorded On: Monday, October 19th, 2026

  The keynote panel of four women highlighted how lived and living experience can become a powerful source of leadership, advocacy, and hope. Flo shared her journey from HIV-related stigma, addiction, and incarceration to healing through Indigenous ceremony and peer mentorship. Hadiza described how peer support helped her navigate Canada’s healthcare system as a newcomer… Read more »

BC Hepatitis Elimination: What We Heard and Where We Go Next

Recorded On: Thursday, September 17th, 2026 - 9:30 am

On Thursday, September 17th from 9:30 to 11:00 AM PT, PAN and CanHepC co-hosted a webinar that shared key findings from the BC Hepatitis Elimination What We Heard Report (also available here along with other provincial reports) and created a space for dialogue about what those findings mean in practice. The session presented the BC… Read more »

Beyond Pride: Sex, Health, Community, and the Future of 2SLGBTQIA+ Life in Canada

Recorded On: Wednesday, July 15th, 2026 - 10:30 am

Happy Pride Season!    Across Canada, Pride Season officially takes place from June to September; when 2SLGBTQIA+ people and their allies come together to highlight the resilience, celebrate the talent, and recognize their communities’ contributions. Although special attention is put on the Pride during the summer months, they happen throughout the year in many communities…. Read more »

Reshaping the Landscape of Sex Work in BC

Presenter: VSWCA, SWAN, the HIV Legal Network, HIM, and The Loops SWA in partnership with KSACC

Recorded On: Thursday, May 21st, 2026

This virtual capacity building event hosted community-based and peer-led sex work organizations as well as the HIV legal network who offered a landscape view of sex work in BC in 2026.   Sex Work and Health: Strategies and Tools for Inclusive Practices In complement to this virtual event, those living in BC only can still… Read more »

Grief Handiwork: What is beginning? (Spring/East)

Presenter: Carlene Dingwall

Recorded On: Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 - 9:30 am

Grief does not move in stages. It moves in cycles. Building off of the impact of Fall 2025’s Grief Series in demonstrating the value of intential space for conversation, connection and sharing in a supported way, through the leadership of Carlene Dingwall, PAN’s Capacity Building and Leadership team will be hosting a year-long circle which… Read more »

Strengthening Community-Based Services

Recorded On: Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Tools for Organizations to Reduce Stigma and Improve Health Outcomes This virtual capacity building event showcased two exciting projects designed to help community-based organizations deepen their impact, strengthen culturally safer practices, and support stigma-free services for people with lived or living experience(s) of HIV, viral hepatitis, mental health challenges, and/or substance use. Presented by: Edi… Read more »

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.