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KnowledgeConnect Webinar Series

The KnowledgeConnect series helps build capacity, health literacy, and community connections. Sessions may offer insight into new and innovative approaches to work, new research that will contribute to shared community knowledge, advocacy issues, new community resources, or the social determinants of health that affect HIV and hepatitis C. Scroll through for upcoming webinars and past webinars ready to watch when you are.

PAN Presents Webinar Series

The PAN Presents series connects PAN member organizations with provincial Health Authority representatives, provincial and federal funding organizations, and representatives from governmental ministries. You can learn the latest information from these voices, and bring your questions to the table in these exchanges. Please contact Simon for more details: [email protected]

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We greatly appreciate the vision of our government funders and their ongoing commitment to supporting the work of the Pacific AIDS Network. In particular we gratefully acknowledge the Public Health Agency of Canada – HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Upcoming Webinars

CBRC Sex Now Survey

Presenter: Ben Klassen, Research Manager, Community-Based Research Centre

Webinar On: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 - 10:00 am

This webinar will focus on CBRC’s Sex Now survey, Canada’s largest and longest-running survey of gay, bi, and queer men’s health (inclusive of trans and Two-Spirit people). We will provide an overview of the survey’s history, our questionnaire design and consultation process, and recruitment methods, using the in-person Sex Now 2018 survey (conducted at 15… Read more »

Outside In: An Initiative to Reach gbMSM at All Levels of ‘Outness’

Presenter: Kiarmin Lari, Health Initiative for Men; Darren Ho Community-Based Research Centre

Webinar On: Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 - 10:00 am

This webinar will share what was learned from the formative research informing the Outside In intervention at HIM regarding the health and well-being of less-out GBT2Q. Our literature review and consultations with community members showed that compared to their more-out counterparts, less-out community members access HIV/STBBI testing services less frequently, are less familiar with combination… Read more »

Past Webinars

Measuring Reductions in STBBIs: Your Input Matters

Presenter: Dr. Jason Wong and Jennifer (Evin) Jones

Recorded On: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 - 11:00 am

Help Shape how Canada evaluates its success in addressing HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and other STBBIs! Reducing the health impact of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) is a key goal for British Columbia, for Canada, and globally. To support this goal, the Public Health Agency of Canada released a Pan-Canadian STBBI Framework for Action and… Read more »

Pozcast: Supporting PLHIV in their Health

Presenter: James Watson

Recorded On: Tuesday, June 11th, 2019

During Men’s Health Week we sat down with James Watson, the host of Pozcast. The goal of Pozcast is to connect people living with HIV with HIV research in ways that matter. Episodes on men’s health have included HIV and fatherhood, and a series on drug use in the gay men’s community. But it is… Read more »

Creative, Inclusive, Rooted: Supporting Indigenous Youth with Yúusnewas

Presenter: Amanda Tallio and Larissa Wahpooseyan

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 - 11:00 am

YouthCO has been working to reduce the impact of stigma related to HIV and hepatitis C since 1994. YouthCO’s Yúusnewas program is an Indigenous peer-led program. Their work includes workshops on HIV, sexual health and harm reduction in urban and rural communities; Culture is Healing events by and for Indigenous youth in downtown Vancouver; First… Read more »

Options for Sexual Health: Partners for Impact

Presenter: Michelle Fortin and Nicole Pasquino

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Options for Sexual Health provides BC communities with comprehensive sexual health services through clinics, education programs, and Sex Sense, their free and confidential sexual health resource and referral service. Michelle Fortin and Nicole Pasquino shared how their work can support PAN members in frontline services, as well as provide professional development for staff and volunteers…. Read more »

Shared Vision; Regional Action: Using Collective Impact to Strengthen Services for Women

Presenter: Molly Bannerman, Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Molly Bannerman, the Provincial Director of the Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative (WHAI) in Ontario presented a webinar about WHAI’s work to strengthen communities. The WHAI builds capacity in organizations that provide services to women. Working with coordinators in 15 sites, the WHAI uses a collective impact approach to identify key priorities overall and 3-4 priority… Read more »

Catch the News from CBRC Health Summit

Presenters: Jody Jollimore, Michael Haack, Darren Ho

Recorded On: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 - 10:00 am

Couldn’t make the Community Based Research Centre’s Health Summit? Share in the energy and change generated. The Community Based Research Centre’s Health Summit is a longstanding source for up-to-date research and community check-in on the health of gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit, queer (GBT2Q), and other men who have sex with men. Researchers from across Canada… Read more »

Project Inclusion: A Human Rights Approach to HIV, Hepatitis C and Overdose Prevention

Presenter: Darcie Bennett

Recorded On: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 - 10:00 am

Learn what your organization can do to act on the findings of Project Inclusion, a human rights approach to HIV, HCV and overdose prevention in BC. Pivot traveled to communities in BC to speak with people coping with poverty, homelessness, and substance use about how programs and policies affect their health. Pivot’s Darcie Bennett shares… Read more »

KnowledgeConnect Dialogue: Mobile Harm Reduction and the Stimulus Conference

Presenter: Kim Toombs and Ivan Fletcher

Moderator: Janet Madsen

Recorded On: Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 - 10:00 am

We hosted a dialogue-based webinar with AIDS Vancouver Island’s Kim Toombs and Ivan Fletcher on October 17, 2018. Ivan works in mobile harm reduction and Kim is on the Overdose Outreach team. Ivan and Kim talked about lessons from their work and Kim sahred her experiences from the Stimulus conference on drugs, policy and practice, which took… Read more »

Understanding the Intersections of HIV and TB in Indigenous Communities

Presenter: Jennifer Sammartino and Jannie Leung

Recorded On: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 - 10:00 am

This webinar was presented by Jennifer Sammartino of the First Nations Health Authority, and Jannie Leung of the BC Centre for Disease Control on October 24, 2018. Health and cultural factors play roles in how to best support people facing HIV, TB, or both. Jennifer and Jannie talked about the layers of HIV and TB… Read more »

PLDI Impact Evaluation Findings

Moderator: Janice Duddy and Paul Kerber

Recorded On: Monday, July 30th, 2018

The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) has offered leadership programming to people living with HIV in BC since 2009. To evaluate the program’s effect, we used a participatory evaluation process, where peers themselves plan, develop and implement the evaluation. This is a new approach in our community, that was very rewarding and one that should be… Read more »

Stigma Reduction Training Tools and Resources

Moderator: Rachel MacLean, Becky Van Tassel

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 - 10:00 am

This webinar on STBBI-related stigma reduction as presented by Rachel MacLean of the the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) in Ottawa and Becky Van Tassel from the the Centre for Sexuality in Calgary. They have been working in partnership to develop knowledge translation and training resources that support frontline service professionals in the provision of safer, more… Read more »

Hep C in BC Resources Project

Presenter: Madeline Gallard

Recorded On: Friday, May 11th, 2018

This 15 minute presentation shares the results from a BC-based research survey to better understand the hepatitis C resource needs of people throughout BC. After viewing, please fill out the evaluation, as evaluation is an important part in creating interesting and relevant material. A prompt will appear at the end of the video. Thank you for… Read more »