The Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health is focused on improving girls' and women’s health and increasing gender equity, through applying SGBA+ and gender transformative approaches, and advancing sex and gender science.
We work with research, policy, practice, and community partners to mobilize evidence to action on women’s health issues.
We have developed and tested sex, gender, and equity-informed approaches to treatment and support on substance use.
We are leaders on trauma informed and gender informed approaches to health and social justice issues for a range of organizations and systems.
We have developed messaging to address the root drivers of violence against women and girls, and have facilitated multi-sector responses to intimate partner violence during emergencies.
Maternal health is an important focus of our work, and we facilitate a virtual network focused on addressing maternal determinants of health and alcohol use.
We are committed to honouring Indigenous knowledge systems and ways of knowing in our work, and responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ Calls for Justice.
Across all our projects, we pursue the goal of bringing knowledge to action to create lasting social change and health improvement for women. We mobilize evidence to develop tools, resources, courses, and other materials applicable to real world practice.
