BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:80@womenshealthresearchcluster.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210412T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210412T110000 DTSTAMP:20250107T173231Z URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/feb-5-2021-sex-cells/ SUMMARY:Sex Cells! DESCRIPTION:\n\nIt is imperative to consider sex and gender when conduct ing inclusive research\, building unbiased technology and facilitating equ itable healthcare. Research that implements sex- and gender-based analysis plus (SGBA+) has found important differences in many areas that pertain t o neuroscience\, including disease risk and effective treatments. Impleme ntation of SGBA+ into your research is often required by funding agencies and will also lead to important discoveries and pathways for precision med icine.\n\nJoin the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, the UBC Wo men’s Health Research Cluster and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience f or this free workshop on how to implement SGBA+ into your own research. It is intended for both faculty and trainees and will be led by Dr. Liisa Ga lea and Krystle van Hoof (bios below). This workshop includes talks by Dr. Galea and van Hoof\, as well as breakout rooms which will provide the opp ortunity for small group discussions\, where participants can talk about t heir own experiences of implementing SGBA+ and share questions and ideas a bout integrating this into their future research. If you have questions ab out how to incorporate sex and gender into your current research project\, bring them to these breakout rooms and receive feedback from one of our e xperts!\nAgenda\n9:00-9:05 – Welcome\n\n9:05-9:25 – Krystle van Hoof: What is Sex and Gender Based Analysis and Why is it Important?\n\n9:25-9:3 0 – Q&\;A with Krystle and Liisa Galea\n\n9:30-9:50 – Liisa Galea:  Studying Sex and Sex-Specific Factors in Brain Health and Disease\n\n9:5 0-10:10 – Q&\;A with Krystle and Liisa Galea\n\n10:15-11:00 – Break out Rooms: SGBA considerations in research FAQ\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nTalk Tit le: What is Sex and Gender Based Analysis and Why is it Important?\n\nThi s talk will provide an overview of what SGBA+ is and why it is important  and will review examples of studies that have implemented SGBA+. It will a lso discuss how SGBA+ can enhance your research and increase your ability to get published and funded.\n\nBio: Krystle van Hoof is the Managing Dir ector and CEO of Healthy Brains\, Healthy Lives\, a large-scale neuroinfor matics initiative at McGill University. She has previously held a variety of leadership positions within the Canadian not-profit sector as well as t he Canadian federal government and the United Nations. Krystle has worked in private sector marketing as well as non-profit communications and has l ed communications departments for two national Canadian associations—wor k that has been recognized with national awards. Directly prior to her cur rent post\, Krystle held the position of Assistant Director with the Insti tute of Gender and Health\, one of 13 institutes that make up the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In this role\, she worked to convince heal th researchers and trainees to integrate sex- and gender-based analysis pl us (SGBA+) into their work (with some success and many heated discussions! ) Krystle holds an MA in Communication for Development from Malmö Univers ity\, a BA in Cultural Studies from York University and a Professional Cer tificate in Knowledge Translation from the University of Toronto.\n\n\n\nT alk Title: Studying Sex and Sex-Specific Factors in Brain Health and Disea se\n\nThis talk will feature the many types of sex differences that can be examined. We will talk about studying sex differences without sexism\, an d the need to  "dig deeper" into SBGA. The talk will also highlight that SGBA is only the first step in towards precision medicine for women and me n's health.\n\nBio: Dr. Liisa Galea is a Professor in the Department of Psychology\, and a member of the Centre for Brain Health\, Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience\, Lead of the Women’s Health Res earch Cluster at UBC\, and a Scientific Advisor at Women’s Health Resea rch Institute at the University of British Columbia. Her research investi gates how sex hormones influence brain health and disease in both females and males. The main goal of her research is to improve brain health for wo men and men by examining the influence of sex and sex hormones on normal a nd diseased brain states such as depression and Alzheimer’s disease.\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/wp-conte nt/uploads/2024/11/not_boobs_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR