Presenter: James Watson
Webinar On: Tuesday, June 11th, 2019 - 10:00 am
June 11-17 is Men’s Health Week, and we’re sitting 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,… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Presenter: Isa Wolf
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 »
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 »
Presenter: Dr. Christy Sutherland and Wendy Stevens
Recorded On: Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 - 10:00 am
The overdose crisis continues in BC, a public health crisis that continues to unfold. Meet two people at the front lines of this epidemic: Dr. Christy Sutherland and Wendy Stevens. In this webinar from February 2018, they presented information on treatment options and had a great discussion about the importance of wraparound care and… Read more »
Presenter: Dr. Mark Gilbert, BC Centre for Disease Control
Recorded On: Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 - 10:00 am
GetCheckedOnline.com is an easy way to test for sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections in British Columbia, Canada. In a few steps, you can print a lab form, then go to a participating LifeLabs site to give your samples and get your results online or over the phone. GetCheckedOnline is operated by the BC Centre… Read more »
Presenter: Antonio Marante, Dan Wilson, Mona Lee and Janet Madsen
Recorded On: Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 - 10:00 am
Community-based research (CBR) is a circular process designed to empower and inform change. It starts with community-identified needs, explores research questions, then brings findings back to community for decisions about the most important pieces learned through research and how to communicate them to a wider audience. This communication part of the CBR process is called knowledge… Read more »
