Wednesday January 29, 2014, 12-1pm
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (www.grsj.arts.ubc.ca)
Jack Bell Building, 2080 West Mall, Room 028, UBC Directions to Office 038, Jack Bell Building:
http://bit.ly/R5WyjE
Lunch Provided on RSVP (wynn.archibald@ubc.ca)

Dr. Joy Johnson
Professor, School of Nursing, UBC and Director, CIHR Institute of Gender and Health

Integrating Gender Considerations in Health Research: Shaping Science for a Healthier World Failure to consider sex and gender 
in research can be harmful and costly. Yet, many scientists persist in the belief that either these differences do not matter,
or that they can be controlled through experimental or statistical procedures. At the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health we
are working toward changing the way science is conducted by influencing the structures, processes and outcomes of research.
In this talk I discuss achievements, barriers, and future challenges in achieving this agenda.

With an extensive background researching the role that gender plays in medical treatment, Dr. Joy Johnson is considered 
one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of health behaviour. She's won several awards, including a Killam research
prize from UBC, which recognizes outstanding and scholarly contributions of international significance. Dr. Johnson is 
the Scientific Director at the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health, co-founder of the Women's Health Research Network, 
and a professor at UBC.

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