March 2014: Mieke Koehoorn is a Partnership Co-lead and holds a CIHR Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health. Her top five essential readings/resources on gender, sex, and health research are as follows:
- Stanford University’s web site: Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
- Johnson J, Greaves L, Repta R. Better science with sex and gender: Facilitating the use of a sex and gender-based analysis in health research. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2009; 8(14).
- CIHR Institute for Gender and Health. What a Difference Sex and Gender Make: A Gender, Sex and Health Research Casebook.
- Krieger N. Genders, sexes, and health: what are the connections-and why does it matter? International Journal of Epidemiology. 2003;32(4):652-7.
- Schiebinger L. Scientific research must take gender into account. Nature. 2014;507(7490).
As a budding Environmental Consultant from Nigeria I am happy to realize that such innovative researches on gender differences that emphasize on strengths and not vulnerabilities are being carried out by the team at UBC. Hopefully the social and economic impacts of these researches will translate from the developed nations to the less developed.