Grant: Chair: Gender, Work and Health

The proposed Chair in Gender, Work and Health will establish a research, training/mentorship and integrated knowledge translation program with a focus on gender and sex differences in workers' compensation and work disability outcomes, including inter-organizational, inter-jurisdictional and inter-sector comparisons. The Chair's research program will include projects on gender/sex differences in work injury and illness rates in British Columbia. In collaboration with provincial, national and international partners, the program of research will also investigate gender and sex differences in work disability outcomes across work disability insurance systems in British Columbia, and across workers compensation systems in Canada (BC, Manitoba, Ontario) and in other countries (BC, Canada; Victoria, Australia, New Zealand). The Chair includes knowledge translation and exchange activities as an integral component of on-going and emerging partnerships with workers' compensation and work disability organizations, to implement best practices and reduce inequities based on evidence of gender/sex differences (this is abased on an existing partnership model between the University of British Columbia and WorkSafeBC). Finally, the Chair includes capacity building activities through graduate student trainee and faculty mentorship opportunities in occupational and environmental health at the University of British Columbia (established for over 20 years); and a leadership role on accounting for gender/sex differences in work and health research via research partnerships in British Columbia, Canada and Australia/New Zealand.