Women’s+ Health Research Trainee Conference

We collaborated with the Partnership for Women’s Health Research Canada (PWHR) to showcase new research on women’s+ health from diverse fields. People across the gender spectrum benefit from research dedicated to women’s+ health. PWHR and the WHRC use the term women to refer to all people who identify as women. We use trans and non-binary as umbrella terms to refer to people with a wide range of gender identities that are different from the gender they were assigned at birth.

The Women’s+ Health Trainee Research Conference was an opportunity for trainees to showcase their research on women’s+ health through virtual oral and poster presentations. It sought to engage trainees across a wide variety of fields, including biomedical, clinical, health systems services, population and public health, social sciences, and more. We strongly encouraged participation from individuals who were addressing equity issues in women’s+ health, as well as projects that used quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods!

The overall objective of this conference was to build knowledge translation capacity in trainees, facilitate new research connections, and disseminate multidisciplinary women’s health research.

This conference also included an expert panel discussion where panelists shared what they wished they had known about working in the field of women’s+ health, and what it is like to be a women’s+ health research leader and scientist. Attending this session helped trainees prepare themselves for a career in the women’s+ health field.