last updated December 8, 2009

 

March 11-12, 2009

 

 

Copyright – Graham, Janice & Jones, Mavis. “Determining evidence in the assessment of health product risk”. 7th Annual Canadian Cochrane Symposium: Wave to the Future: Navigating Health Connections among Systematic Reviews, Policies, and Practices. Poster. March 11-12, 2009.

 

 

March 9-10, 2009

 

 

 

February 23 - March 02, 2009

    

 

 

 

Winter term 2009

Janice Graham and Mavis Jones teach the coure Bioethics 6045:
Qualitative Health Research: Determining Evidence [course description]

December 4, 2008

Janice Graham and Mavis Jones were invited to present their research at the
Health Canada Atlantic staff retreat at the Old Orchard Inn, Wolfville. 

November 12-14, 2008

Janice Graham was the invited Panel Speaker for the Community and Population Health Research (CPHR) training Program and the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) conference “New Directions in Population Health Research: Linking Theory, Ethics and Practice.” University of Saskatchewan.

November 05, 2008

Sharon Batt presented the poster "Pharmaceutical company funding of breast cancer groups and implications for cancer care in Nova Scotia" at the Nova Scotia Cancer Research Symposium, Halifax.

 

 

TRRU members presented our research at the following conferences in 2008:

  

Presentation to Health Canada, Atlantic

October 21, 2008

Halifax, Canada

 

Royal Geographical Society (RGS/IGB)

August 27-29

London, UK

 

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)

August 20-23

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

CESAGen Workshop: Constructing/Contesting Mobilizations: Biopolitics, Activism and Identity

June 27 

Lancaster, UK

 

Drug Information Association (DIA)

June 22-26

Boston, USA

The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA)

May 8-10

Ottawa, Canada

 

International GE3LS Symposium 2008: Navigating the Changing Landscape
April 28-30

Calgary, Canada

 

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections: Feminist Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice

April 11-13

Halifax, Canada

 

 

Janice Graham was invited to speak at the following in 2008:

 

• Community and Population Health Research (CPHR) training Program and the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) conference “New Directions in Population Health Research: Linking Theory, Ethics and Practice.” University of Saskatchewan, November 12-14th, 2008.
  

• “Accessing and Rights of Access” Society for the Arts in Dementia Care. Creative Expression, Communication and Dementia: Mindscapes 2008, May 2008 Vancouver, BC. http://www.cecd-society.org/2008/ 

• “Smart regulation, progressive licensing and the myth of deliberative democracy: Regulatory Practices at Health Canada.”  University of Manitoba, Community Health Sciences Colloquium & Grand Rounds, April 18th, 2008.

• A symmetrical approach to regulation: will the scientists and policy wonks please rise? Invited workshop “Regulating Biotechnology Products: at the interface between science and ethics.” Université Laval, Institut d’’ethique appliqué, March 20, 2008.

• “Balancing risk: scientific evidence, political expediency and public opinion in the drug approval process in Canada” and “Contesting Paradigms of Loss in Again: the science, politics and everyday life of recognizing effective treatments for dementia.” University of Saskatchewan, March 12-13, 2008.

  

Sharon Batt was an Invited Panel Speaker for the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (cesagen) at a workshop on "The Science and Politics of Breast Cancer". Lancaster University, June 26th, 2008.

Christina Holmes presented at the 2008 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. "A Tale of Two Laboratories: The 'Gene Revolution' and Genetically Modified Plants in Canada and Colombia."

 

Janice Graham organized the following conference in 2000:

 

Matters of the Heart and Mind: Negotiating and Assessing Personhood and Dignity Among Elderly Canadians with Dementia