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:104@womenshealthresearchcluster.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211013T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211013T133000 DTSTAMP:20250107T170838Z URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/sep-23-2021-what-cost-c are/ SUMMARY:What is the cost of care? DESCRIPTION:Unpaid caregivers have long been undervalued and have historica lly been women. Today\, people of all genders fill these roles\, yet the m ajority of caregiving continues to fall on women and is placed on top of t heir professional responsibilities. There are costs to this work\, and the y are not borne equally. Whether they are caring for children\, elders\, o r other members of their community\, their essential contributions allow s ocieties to function. The experiences of the past 18 months have only exac erbated the challenges faced by both full-time unpaid caregivers and those adding caregiving on top of their regular jobs. The intersectional and so cioeconomic pressures on caregivers are clearly not equitable and research shows they are struggling under an unsustainable load that carries physic al\, mental\, and financial ramifications.\n\nJoin our panel of UBC expert s as they discuss the complex reality of care in our society. Who are the caregivers? How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted them? What would it loo k like if we were to rebuild the system into one that better supports them ?\n\nPresented in partnership with the Faculty of Arts\, Education\, and M edicine\, the UBC Sauder School of Business\, and The Women’s Health Res earch Cluster.\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Eliot\, BA '98\n\nMichelle Elio t is the host of CBC Radio One’s B.C. mid day open line show\, BC Today . Michelle is an award-winning journalist with CBC Radio One\, and has bec ome a familiar voice as a regular guest host on regional and national prog rams\, interviewing community members and prominent politicians\, as well authors and musicians such as Douglas Coupland and Bif Naked. But her true passion is for the open line\, where her skill at engaging callers probes further into their viewpoints and digs deeper into their personal stories .\n\nHer work has been recognized by the RTDNA and the Jack Webster Founda tion\, winning awards for her team’s coverage of the ongoing overdose cr isis and the 2017 NDP and Green Party deal. She has also received nominati ons for her story about immigrants learning to swim later in life\, and fo r her profile of a well-loved woman in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside who died of an overdose.\n\nMichelle was born in the Philippines and moved to Canada with her family at 12-years old\, settling in North Vancouver. Her experience as a young immigrant planted the seed of understanding for peo ple whose lives are changed by new circumstances. She studied English Lite rature at the University of British Columbia and went on to study Broadcas t Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology before joinin g CBC Vancouver in 2000.\n\nMichelle is married with two children. She enj oys joining community events like the Vancouver Sun Run and the Pride Para de. As the parent of a child with special needs\, she also likes to partic ipate in events in the disability community. ​Aside from enjoying runnin g\, ​Michelle is also ​an avid reader\, a lover of spontaneous dance p arties\, and an unabashed fan of old school hip hop music.\n\n\n\nDr. Mari na Adshade\n\nDr. Marina Adshade is a faculty member at the Vancouver Scho ol of Economics at the University of British Columbia. She is one of Canad a’s foremost economics experts on the role of women in society and a maj or advocate for inclusive cultural reform\, with the goal of increasing sa fety\, competitiveness\, and leadership.\n\nShe is the author of Dollars and Sex: How economics influences sex and love. Her unique approach to res earch applies a mix of economic\, sociological\, biological\, and psycholo gical theories and evidence to a wide range of social issues. She is a sou ght-after speaker\, writer\, and social commentator and has published over sixty opinion pieces and feature articles in the Wall Street Journal\, S unday Times (UK)\, Daily Mail (UK)\, Globe and Mail\, Time Magazine\, Psyc hology Today\, the Daily Beast\, and Buzzfeed.\n\n\n\nDr. Terri-Leigh Ald red\n\nDr. Terri-Leigh Aldred is the Medical Director for the First Nation s Health Authority. She leads the community-based First Nations Primary Ca re Initiatives (FNPCI)\, as well as the First Nations Virtual Doctor of th e Day (FNDOD) and First Nations Virtual Substance Use and Psychiatry Servi ces (FNvSUPS) to engage medical affairs matters related to our programs an d services.\n\nShe is Dakelh (Carrier) from the Tl’Azt’En Nation locat ed north of Fort St. James. She is Lysiloo (Frog) Clan\, who are tradition ally known as the voice of the people. She follows her mother’s and grea t-grandmother’s line Cecilia Pierre (Prince).\n\nDr. Aldred grew up in b oth the inner city of Prince George and on the Tachet reserve (in Lake Bab ine Territory). These experiences helped motivate her to go to medical sch ool so she could give back to her community. Terri received a Bachelor of Health Science degree and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Alberta. She went on to complete the Indigenous Family Medicine residen cy program through the University of British Columbia.\n\nAt present\, Ter ri’s other roles include being the site director for the Indigenous Fami ly Medicine Program\, family physician for the Carrier Sekani Family Servi ces Primary Care team\, which serves 12 communities in north-central BC\, and the Indigenous Lead for the Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCcBC).\n \n\n\nDr. Sylvia Anne Fuller\n\nSylvia Fuller is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses primarily on u nderstanding how entrenched patterns of inequality in the labour market de velop and erode\, and in the implications of changing employment relations for workers’ prospects for security and mobility.\n\nDr. Fuller has pub lished extensively on the relationship between gender\, parental status\, and labour market inequalities in top Sociology journals including The Am erican Sociological Review\, Social Forces\, Gender and Society\, Journal of Marriage and Family\, Work and Occupations\, and Work\, Employment and Society. She has also published research on temporary workers’ employme nt and wage trajectories\, factors shaping the career pathways of new immi grants\, and the impact of welfare reforms on lone mothers\, among other t opics. She is currently collaborating on a multi-partner project on Canadi an work-family policies that includes research on the impact of the Covid- 19 pandemic on employment gaps between mothers and fathers. Her research o n this topic has been published in the journals Canadian Public Policy a nd Gender and Society.\n\nDr. Fuller is the Academic Director of the Brit ish Columbia Inter-University Research Data Centres. The BCIRDC operates a network of secure labs that facilitate academic and community researchers ’ access to the most sensitive Statistics Canada data. It is part of the Canadian Research Data Centres Network (CRDCN)\, a partnership between St atistics Canada and a consortium of Canadian Universities. Dr. Fuller sits on the board of the CRDCN\, has served in an advisory role for the Confer ence Board of Canada\, and has been consulted by the Government of Canada ’s Department of Women and Gender Equality with respect to research prio rities\, and by Statistics Canada with respect to modernization initiative s.\n\n\n\nDr. Anusha Kassan\n\nDr. Kassan is an Associate Professor who ho lds a high impact position in child and youth mental health in the School and Applied Child Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She wa s a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Counselling Psychology Program at the University of British Columbia from 2009 to 2013\, and an Assistant an d then Associate Professor in Educational Studies in Counselling Psycholog y at the University of Calgary from 2014 to 2019. Dr. Kassan completed her graduate studies in Counselling Psychology at McGill University\, and did her Pre-Doctoral Internship in Professional Psychology at the University of California\, Irvine Counselling Center.\n\nDr. Kassan’s scholarly int erests are informed by her own bi-cultural identity. As such\, her program of study is informed by an overarching social justice lens. Her research presently includes two major foci. First\, she is conducting research pert aining to migration experiences across different populations (i.e.\, newco mer youth\, same-sex binational couples\, and LGBTQ newcomers). Second\, s he is carrying out research in the area of teaching and learning\, investi gating cultural and social justice competencies among graduate students an d field supervisors. Dr. Kassan is committed to the implications of this r esearch for counselling training and practice.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/wp-conte nt/uploads/2024/11/thecostofcaring_1920x1080.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