Plenary (Toronto) - Research with Pride - Oct 2/09 3pm

Research with Pride

Join us for our PUBLIC closing plenary ‘Next Steps: From Research to Policy’ with Nick Mulé and Loralee Gillis.

From Health Research to Healthy Policy: Challenges and Responsibilities of LGBT Knowledge Transfer

October 2, 2009
3:00-4:30pm
Room 610
Health Science Building
155 College St.
*Free*

You do NOT need to register for this plenary and we welcome everyone who can attend!


ABSTRACT

From Health Research to Healthy Policy: Challenges and Responsibilities of LGBT Knowledge Transfer

Presenters: Nick Mulé & Loralee Gillis

This session will focus on both the challenges and responsibilities LGBTs have in 1.) prioritizing broad health and wellbeing issues; 2.) conducting community-based research; 3.) producing recommendations that effect change; and 4.) lobbying for those changes in political arenas. An historical overview of the development and politicization of the broad health issues affecting LGBTs in Toronto, Ontario and Canada will shed light on the challenges and responsibilities that have and continue to be faced in an era that has been dominated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Interactive in its approach, this session will outline what is meant by broad LGBT health and wellbeing issues from a social determinants of health perspective. It will capture some of the important principles involved in conducting community-based research, discuss the fluidity of social locations all stakeholders move through, and it will highlight crucial differences between the community and academic worlds and that of the political world. Just as Canadians have long treasured health care as a basic human right, we need to question why we LGBTs are having difficulty getting accessible, equitable, informed and sensitive health care. This is not only an issue of our health and wellbeing this is an issue of social justice.

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