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September 10, 2021September 10, 2021

Upcoming Application Deadline for new CRHESI Grant Streams

The application deadline for CRHESI’s two new funding streams is approaching on September 15, 2021. Learn more about the new funding opportunities:

Planning/Development Seed Grant: Support for emerging or established teams of academic and community partners in planning, developing and/or carrying out the initial stages of collaborative research.

Putting Knowledge Into Action – Pilot Grant: Closing the gap between knowledge and practice, by facilitating productive exchanges among community-based and academic partners.

Both grants are made possible through the generous support of the Arthur Labatt Family.

July 29, 2021September 10, 2021

The VOTE HOUSING Campaign

VOTE HOUSING is a national non-partisan campaign to end homelessness and housing need in Canada. This campaign has a simple but ambitious goal: to engage thousands of Canadians across the country to demand policies to end homelessness and housing need in the next federal election: “We want to harness the power of Canadians across the country to ensure all political parties support making bold investments in affordable housing and ending homelessness.”

Interested in learning more? Read the campaign platform and pledge to vote.

July 28, 2021September 10, 2021

Stewardship of global collective behavior

Journal Club Discussion
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET
Location: TBD (based on pandemic restrictions)

» More details and registration

CRHESI, along with a cohort of research and knowledge exchange networks at Western University, is co-hosting a journal club discussion on the proposal that we should consider the science of collective human behavior a “crisis discipline.” Read the paper and RSVP for the discussion if you are interested.

Join us for a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary dialogue. The convening networks for this meeting include:

Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion (CRHESI)
Health Equity in Context Interdisciplinary Development Initiative (HEIDI)
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Lab
Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Network for Economic and Social Trends (NEST)
Centre for Social Concern (CSC)
Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL)
Meditations Lecture Series (FIMS)

July 9, 2021September 10, 2021

Support to Report: Supporting Sexually Assaulted Adults Working in Sex Trade or Sex Trafficked to Access Justice

In this video, Julia Parker (Executive Director, Correctional and Justice Services, Salvation Army) and Samantha Gee (Case Manager, Support to Report, Correctional and Justice Services, Salvation Army) discuss the Support to Report: Supporting Sexually Assaulted Adults Working in Sex Trade or Sex Trafficked to Access Justice program.

(This video was recorded live at CRHESI’s Lightning Talks event held on November 21, 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.)

June 24, 2021September 10, 2021

Indigenous health training is a journey, not a check-box

Learning to provide safe, culturally sensitive health care for Indigenous patients is a journey, not a check box. “[T]here is a clear need for systemic change within health care institutions to support staff participating in cultural safety training and to put that training into practice to create a culturally safe space for Indigenous individuals seeking health care.“

» Read Western News’ overview of Lloy Wylie, PhD, and Stephanie McConkey, MPH ’15, MSc’18 research published in the International Journal of Indigenous Health

CRHESI Team Members