Webinar Category: Advocacy, Policy and Public Health

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 »

The Ins and Outs of Getting on Hepatitis C Treatment

Presenter: Deb Schmitz and Daryl Luster

Webinar On: Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 - 10:00 am

Hep C treatment is now short term, highly effective, and has minimal side effects for most people. What do you need to know for yourself or the people you support about getting treatment? Join us for a webinar with Pacific Hepatitis C Network team members Deb Schmitz and Daryl Luster as they explain the road… Read more »

Harm Reduction and Healing in Indigenous Communities

Presenter: Andrea Medley

Webinar On: Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 - 10:00 am

This dialogue-based webinar will be with Andrea Medley, one of the Indigenous Wellness Educators with the First Nations Health Authority’s Indigenous Wellness team. When Andrea and her teammates are invited into BC First Nations communities, they’ve found that harm reduction can mean many different things. Join us to learn about different approaches to harm reduction… Read more »

PAN Presents: Northern Health Updates

Presenter: Ashley Stoppler and Northern Health team

Webinar On: Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 - 10:00 am

PAN will be hosting Ashley Stoppler and other staff from Northern Health to talk on topics of most interest to our members – as chosen by you.  At this point, we are planning for presentations that focus on: the current rates in NH region for HIV testing, as well as new diagnoses compared to goals;… Read more »

Queering Healthcare Access and Accessibility: CBRC Summit Round-Up

Presenter: Darren Ho and Jose Patiño-Gomez

Recorded On: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 - 10:00 am

This webinar recapped highlights of last year’s Summit, a conference for Queer Men’s health hosted by Community Based Research Centre. In its 15th iteration in 2019, the theme was ‘Queering Healthcare Access and Accessibility’ which meant that the Summit was dedicated to talking about what is and isn’t working for Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Two Spirit,… Read more »

What’s Happening in Digital Sexual Health

Presenter: Devon Haag and Heather Pedersen

Moderator: Janet Madsen

Recorded On: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 - 10:00 am

This dialogue-style webinar explores some digital sexual health services available in BC. Digital sexual health programs help people learn about, monitor and enhance their sexual health and knowledge by engaging online. They have the potential to connect with people in hard to reach areas, and reach populations that may face stigma or challenges in accessing… Read more »

Special Presentation by Dr. Christy Sutherland

Presenter: Dr. Christy Sutherland

Recorded On: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 - 12:00 pm

We were pleased to welcome Dr. Christy Sutherland, Medical Director of PHS Community Services, as the keynote speaker  to precede PAN’s Annual General Meeting. She spoke on the topics of a safer drug supply and the question of decriminalization. Dr. Christy Sutherland is a family doctor and diplomat of the American Board of Addiction Medicine who… Read more »

PAN Presents: PHSA Hot Topics

Presenter: Jason Wong, Lauren Allan, Jill Pascoe

Recorded On: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 - 10:00 am

PAN welcomed presenters Dr. Jason Wong, Jill Pascoe and Lauren Allan from the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) to talk about topics chosen by our members. This session provided an update on current epidemiology in BC and PHSA women’s services.     Suggested audience: HIV and hepatitis C organization staff and volunteers, especially those working… Read more »

Near and Far: the Harm Reduction Landscape in the Interior

Presenter: Cheryl Dowden

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Each region in BC is facing its own overdose crisis within this public health emergency. Each region has its own layout of services, and the sheer land area of each region can make it difficult to support everyone who needs harm reduction services. ANKORS has been providing community care and support in the East and… Read more »

Making Connections for Cultural Safety and Humility

Presenter: Andrea Derban, Cherlyn Cortes

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 - 10:00 am

For groups that are non-Indigenous but work with Indigenous people, there may be some gaps in knowledge about how to best provide culturally sensitive and appropriate support. In this KnowledgeConnect dialogue the topic was how to advance cultural safety through humility, sensitivity, and skills development. Andrea Derban and Cherlyn Cortes of the First Nations Health… Read more »

PHAC Harm Reduction Fund

Presenter: Joshua Mann (Senior Program Officer, Western Region, PHAC) and Jeff Dodds (Senior Advisor, Program Delivery for PHAC)

Recorded On: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

At last year’s PAN fall conference, one of the requests we heard at the ED summit was for PAN to facilitate more conversations and potential collaborations across the network when it came to large national and provincial funding calls. In the weeks before PHAC launched its latest solicitation for the Harm Reduction Fund, we worked… Read more »

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 »