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).
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Attachments: files of this invitation in:
> Wordperfect 5.0 and Wordperfect 6.0 formats
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> 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]
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> The following section of this message contains a file attachment
> prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.
> If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system,
> you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.
> If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.
>
> ---- File information -----------
> File: womfinal.doc
> Date: 28 May 1998, 16:40
> Size: 31623 bytes.
> Type: WordPerfect
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Name: womfinal.doc
> Part 1.3 Type: Application/Wordperfect5.1
> Encoding: BASE64
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> The following section of this message contains a file attachment
> prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.
> If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system,
> you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.
> If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.
>
> ---- File information -----------
> File: womfinal.wpd
> Date: 28 May 1998, 16:41
> Size: 53152 bytes.
> Type: WordPerfect
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Name: womfinal.wpd
> Part 1.5 Type: Application/Wordperfect5.1
> Encoding: BASE64
--
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
|
