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Strengths to Solutions: Advancing Sex and Gender Science for Healthy Futures

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Strengths to Solutions: Advancing Sex and Gender Science for Healthy Futures
CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) Research Priority Plan 2024-2029

IGH's mandate is to foster research excellence regarding the influence of sex and gender on health and to apply these findings to identify and address pressing health challenges facing men, women, girls, boys and gender-diverse people.

Our Research Priorities

  1. Driving systemic change for sex and gender+ integration
  2. Advancing sex and gender science by understanding and addressing mechanisms and processes
  3. Investing in research on the health needs and priorities of key communities experiencing sex and gender inequities

Areas of Focus

  • 2S/LGBTQI+ health
  • Women's health
  • Gender and health within Indigenous and Black communities

The Values that Ground Our Work

  • Respect for Indigenous knowledge, ways of knowing, self-determination and Truth and Reconciliation
  • Committed to nuanced scientific understandings of how sex and gender shape health across the lifecourse
  • Advanced beyond sex and gender binaries
  • Enriched by intersectionality
  • Focused on priority areas and communities facing inequities
  • Inclusive of community research partners
  • Strengths-based
  • Supportive of studying small populations deeply
  • Partnerships and relationships-focused
  • Engaged with all four pillars of health research
  • Inclusive of researchers, trainees, policymakers, clinician scientists, people with lived and living experiences and Indigenous people

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Email: igh-isfh@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

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