Hello,

May I forward this to our women-health list of 200 people?

Cheers,
celeste

Pratima Devichand wrote:
>
> INVITATION FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
> "Working Together on Women's Health Research" (working title)
>
> You are invited to contribute to an exciting new venture in women's
> health research.  We are producing a handbook that will help
> researchers to partner with others in the community, universities,
> and health services to facilitate research on women's health.  The
> handbook will build on the document General Guidelines for Health
> Promotion Research Proposals, produced by the Atlantic Health
> Promotion Research Centre in 1995.
>
> We are inviting contributions of two types:
> 1) one of five major sections of the handbook; and
> Deadline for Submission of cover letter, resume and overview:
> July 31st, 1998
>
> 2)  short contributions on experiences, insights, stories, personal
> accounts, and lessons learned from women's health research.  These
> may take any publishable form, e.g. illustrations, poems, stories.
> Deadline for Submissions: August 31st, 1998.
>
> PURPOSE: To support women's health research in Canada through a
> plain language handbook that explores what research means to
> different people and in different contexts, with special reference to
> social diversity and social marginalization.
>
> GOALS:
> -  bring together and share the knowledge and lived experience of
> people;
> -  encourage research approach through which skills and
> partnerships can be built and shaped;
> -  facilitate access to research funds through sharing of knowledge
> sources and skills;
> -  identify and address gaps in current research methods on women's
> health.
>
>  These goals will be accomplished through an exploration of the
>  factors (e.g. social, cultural, economic) that affect women's health
>  research.  Personal accounts and insights will be used to illustrate
>  the challenges and promises of women's health research.  Both
>  community & academic perspectives will be presented in each section
>  of the handbook.
>
> We encourage applications from women, aboriginal peoples, visible
> minorities and people with disabilities.
>
> Sponsored by the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC),
> the Community Health Promotion Network Atlantic (CHPNA), and the
> Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (MCEWH).
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
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> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> For more information please contact:
> Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre
> Room 5200, Dentistry Building, 5981 University Avenue
> Halifax, NS   B3H 3J5
> Phone: (902) 494-2240;
> Fax: (902) 494-3594
> E-mail: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
> _____________________________________________________________________
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Celeste Wincapaw
Communications and Networking Strategist
BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health
E311-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC  V6H 3N1
http://www.bccewh.bc.ca