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The Pan-Canadian Women’s Health Coalition

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Composed of 10 hubs across Canada, the Pan-Canadian Women’s Health Coalition aims to address persistent gaps and under-researched areas in women’s health.

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Ne manquez pas cette occasion! ⏰ Notre prochain invité dans le cadre de la série de présentations virtuelles sera le Pôle SHAPE

🗨️ Soyez des nôtres le 29 octobre à 12 h HAE pour apprendre, créer des liens et discuter d’un enjeu encore trop peu abordé dans les soins de santé : https://bit.ly/4q3OuUA

28.10.2025 22:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t miss out! ⏰ The next session of our Grand Rounds Series welcomes the SHAPE Hub

🗨️ Join us on October 29 at 12 p.m. EDT to learn, connect, and engage in conversation around a topic that is often overlooked in health care.

Register today: https://bit.ly/4q3OuUA

28.10.2025 22:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Notre prochain invité dans le cadre de la série de présentations virtuelles sera le Pôle SHAPE.

Soyez des nôtres le 29 octobre à 12 h (HAE) pour apprendre, créer des liens et discuter d’un enjeu encore trop peu abordé dans les soins de santé : https://bit.ly/3J4Ymgc

21.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The next session of our Grand Rounds Series welcomes the Sexual Health and Genito-Pelvic Pain Knowledge Empowerment (SHAPE) Hub!

Join us on October 29 at 12 p.m. EDT to learn, connect, and engage in conversation around a topic that is often overlooked in health care: https://bit.ly/4q3OuUA

21.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

« La traduction n’est pas un « extra » ni une option facultative. Elle constitue le fondement de l’exactitude, de la confiance et de l’inclusion. »

Par Dre Patti Johnston, Dre Anick Bérard, Dre Isabelle Malhamé et CanSFE : https://bit.ly/3Jgmtsk

| #MoisHistoireFemmes

17.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Translation is not an ‘extra’, nor is it optional. It is the foundation for accuracy, trust and inclusion."

By Dr. Patti Johnston, Dr. Anick Bérard, Dr. Isabelle Malhamé and CanWaCH: https://bit.ly/4nbldEL

| #WomensHistoryMonth

17.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Joignez-vous à nous pour découvrir comment l’AVA collabore avec des personnes ayant une expérience vécue, tisse des partenariats solides, renforce le partage des connaissances et développe des modèles de formation novateurs!

24.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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L’Académie du CanSFE 2025 - CanWaCH Les séances de cette année sont conçues pour aider nos membres à s’adapter à un monde en constante évolution.

Cette première séance est consacrée à l’AVA touchant la santé des femmes et des filles, un pôle qui transforme les soins de santé offerts aux filles, aux femmes et aux personnes de diverses identités de genre touchées par l’adversité et la violence familiale : bit.ly/428qHbR

24.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Les présentations de la Coalition pancanadienne pour la santé des femmes mettent en valeur le travail des pôles qui transforment la recherche et les pratiques en santé des femmes d’un bout à l’autre du Canada.

24.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Join us to learn how @avatraining-ca.bsky.social engages people with lived experiences, builds strong partnerships, scales up knowledge mobilization and develops innovative models for delivering trainings!

24.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Pan-Canadian Women’s Health Coalition Grand Rounds spotlight Hubs that are transforming women’s health research and practice across Canada.

In this first session, the Alliance against Violence and Adversity (#AVA) Women’s & Girls’ Health Hub takes the stage: https://bit.ly/4gFBnom

24.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"It's only through research that we understand what's safe, what's effective and for whom."

Dr. Lori Brotto, a SHAPE Hub Principal Investigator, joined Global News Morning to talk about why dedicated investment in #WomensHealth research is critical to improving care.

➡️🔗 https://bit.ly/4ncwOnK

21.09.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Canada's health research funding has a sustainability problem It's time to invest in long-term vision and continuity.

"We need to provide greater opportunities for existing research, knowledge mobilization and training programs to carry on."

✍️ By Dr. Nicole Letourneau and Dr. Isabelle Malhamé via the Calgary Herald: https://bit.ly/3VWYHnT

| #HealthResearch #HealthEquity #InvestInWomen @avatraining-ca.bsky.social

19.09.2025 21:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rejoignez l'AVA à la CanWaCH Academy 2025, qui se tiendra du 22 au 25 septembre, pour une semaine riche en apprentissage et en collaboration !

Ne manquez pas la session d'AVA !
24 septembre à 14 h HAE
canwach.glueup.com/event/canwac...

canwach.ca/canwach-acad...

#AVA #CanWaCHAcademy

18.09.2025 21:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Join AVA at the 2025 CanWaCH Academy, happening September 22nd – 25th, for a powerful week of learning and collaboration!

Don’t miss AVA’s session!
September 24 @ 2 PM EDT
canwach.glueup.com/event/canwac...

canwach.ca/canwach-acad...

#AVA #CanWaCHAcademy #AVAWomensHealthHub

18.09.2025 21:37 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Pan-Canadian Women's Health Coalition Newsletter: Introducing Grand Rounds and a new portal for sexual health! - CanWaCH The Pan-Canadian Women's Health Coalition Newsletter September 2025!

La période d’inscription à la Subvention d’équipe : Favoriser la résilience et l’équité au sein des systèmes de santé publique (ÉTAPE) se termine le 17 septembre!

Pour en savoir plus : https://bit.ly/3VOVk2d

14.09.2025 19:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pan-Canadian Women's Health Coalition Newsletter: Introducing Grand Rounds and a new portal for sexual health! - CanWaCH The Pan-Canadian Women's Health Coalition Newsletter September 2025!

Registration for the Team Grant: Strengthening Resilient and Equitable Public Health Systems (STEPS) closes on September 17!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/42vaJsa

14.09.2025 19:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This #WorldSexualHealthDay, the SHAPE Hub is launching a new evidence-based Resource Portal focused on sexual difficulties and genito-pelvic pain.

🔗➡️ Check out the portal: sieccan.org

| #WSHD2025 #SexualJustice #SHAPEHub @sieccan.bsky.social

04.09.2025 19:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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En cette #JournéeMondialeDeLaSantéSexuelle, le pôle SHAPE lance un nouveau portail de ressources fondées sur des données probantes, axé sur les difficultés sexuelles et la douleur génito-pelvienne.

🔗➡️ Pour le consulter : sieccan.org

| #JMDLSS2025 #JusticeSexuelle #SHAPEHub @sieccan.bsky.social

04.09.2025 19:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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World Sexual Health Day 2025 Taking place on September 4th, WSHD aims to dismantle social and cultural taboos surrounding sexuality.

Observed on September 4, #WorldSexualHealthDay brings the global community together to promote sexual health and well-being!

This year, the Women's Health Research Institute will be hosting a free event with special guests from the SHAPE Hub and Options for Sexual Health: https://bit.ly/41nXPMo

31.08.2025 19:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gates Foundation To Invest $2.5 Billion In Women's Health Amid Debilitating US Funding Cuts - Health Policy Watch Dr Anita Zaidi, president of the Gates Foundation's Gender Equality Division, added: “For too long, women have suffered from health conditions that are

"For too long, women have suffered from health conditions that are misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or ignored."

Gates Foundation announces a $2.5 billion commitment through 2030 to accelerate research and development (R&D) focused exclusively on women’s health: https://bit.ly/4m82fit

24.08.2025 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New funding opportunity! 📣🎊

The CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health are thrilled to announce the next phase of funding in the Indigenous Gender and Wellness (IGW) initiative.

Registration deadline: Sept 3, 2025 – https://bit.ly/CIHR-IGW-Phase4

22.08.2025 20:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nouvelle possibilité de financement! 📣🎊

L’Institut de la santé des femmes et des hommes et l’Institut de la santé des Autochtones des IRSC sont heureux d’annoncer le lancement de la prochaine phase de l’Initiative de recherche sur le genre et le mieux-être autochtone : https://bit.ly/IGW-phase4-FR

22.08.2025 15:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a big threat to women’s health, but it’s still under-recognized, under-diagnosed and under-treated Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects about one in 10 women and is linked to health risks including cardiovascular disease. But it’s still under-recognized, under-diagnosed and under-treated.

Read it here: bit.ly/3ISsT08

| #HealthEquity #WomensHealth #NWHRI

30.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"There is undoubtedly a personal cost to individual women, both physically and mentally, and living with PCOS can be a significant financial, health-care and work-life burden for many women, too, which may disproportionately affect those in lower socioeconomic groups."

30.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In a new article, Jamie Benham, a member of the Sex, Gender and Women's Health Research Hub team, joins Pauline McDonagh Hull and Robyn Vettese to discuss the risk and cost to women's health when PCOS symptoms are missed and untreated.

30.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Under-recognized and under-diagnosed, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) affects ovaries, periods and fertility in about one in 10 Canadian women. 🧵⬇️

30.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The 2025-26 IGH-BCCWH Seed Grant Competition is now open!

The grant seeks to catalyze the development of high-quality, transformative global health projects in research, education, or capacity-building.

Learn more here: bit.ly/4l2tBFK

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Home | Pyle Lab

Learn more and read their publications: www.womensheartlab.com/home

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The Lab is also working to understand how menopause and intimate partner violence present unique risks for cardiovascular disease in women.

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