Welcome! After six years with institutional limbo and funding wind down, in September 2024 CGSHE management made the troublesome choice to shut its doorways as an educational centre and transition to a web-based repository of open-access analysis training sources, or a Collaborative of Gender and Sexual Well being Fairness Analysis Schooling Sources (“CGSHE”). Right here, you can see freely out there sources to advance extra equitable and inclusive analysis, coverage, and follow in Canada and globally–from analysis fairness toolkits and decolonizing analysis learnings to analysis training and information translation periods with main native and worldwide gender and sexual well being fairness analysis and strategies specialists, created from 2018-2024. As a dedication to facilitating open entry and guaranteeing sources stay out there and accessible, all can be utilized and shared freely inside your networks, with applicable credit score to authors, audio system, & CGSHE.
Historical past: CGSHE initially got here collectively in 2018 as a digital and in-person community of over 30 school throughout UBC, SFU, and past devoted to advancing gender and sexual well being fairness analysis training, KT mobilization, coverage, and follow, supported completely by way of exterior funding, together with a one-time Canadian Basis for Innovation (CFI) working grant and funds from Ministry of Girls and Gender Equality, MacAIDS, Public Well being Company of Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Well being Analysis. Initially established as a provincially networked tutorial centre hosted at Windfall Well being Care, CGSHE finally grew to become a acknowledged UBC school of medication analysis centre.
In 2022, CGSHE was exited from its host establishment, Windfall Well being Care, as a result of lack of alignment on reproductive well being and trans well being justice and the Catholic mission of PHC. With out safe long-term funding and following years of institutional limbo, CGSHE determined to shut its doorways as a centre.
A particular due to everybody who has helped, collaborated, and shared their knowledge and fervour to construct the superb sources, KT, and learnings through the years.
