Usher Institute

CPHS Seminar: Integrating sex and gender in research and policy

Title: Integrating sex and gender in research and policy: lessons from tobacco and cannabis regulation

Speaker: Professor Lorraine Greaves, Senior Investigator, Centre of Excellence for Women's Health and Clinical Professor in the School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Chair: Professor Linda Bauld, Bruce and John Usher Chair in Public Health, Usher Institute

Speaker Biography: Lorraine Greaves is a medical sociologist, and Senior Investigator and founding Executive Director at the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, a virtual research centre based in Vancouver. She has worked in academic, government, education and NGO settings focused on the integration of sex, gender and equity in research, care, programme and policy development. She holds several Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) grants in substance use, trauma, and gender; leading a policy-research partnership on cannabis prevention messaging with CIHR-HC; and co leading several pan Canadian projects integrating gender and trauma into the social care and substance use response systems in Canada. She is a Principal with Galvanizing Equity Group, an international consulting company devoted to generating gender transformative solutions for health and social initiatives.

Feb 05 2020 -

CPHS Seminar: Integrating sex and gender in research and policy

CPHS Seminar

Teaching Room 12, Doorway 3, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG