Grant: SGBA Health Policy-Research Partnerships

The proper implementation of sex and gender consideration in health research can be challenging and demands the involvement of individuals with strong commitment to expanding sex and gender research, as well as considerable expertise in the field and experience influencing health policy.The aim of this proposal is to respond to areas of need in sex and gender research to help inform health policy. In the hopes of forming a longstanding relationship with stakeholders, our first plan will be to demonstrate the impact sex and gender has on consumer behaviours and to determine if there are key factors related to sex and gender that can explain attitudes towards certain self-care products. To do we intend to showcase the power of the GENESIS-PRAXY questionnaire, a gender index composed of self-reported data on gender identification, socio-economic standing, social roles and psychosocial questions measuring emotions that aim to construct a composite gender score that is specific to the particular time, place and culture of the participants. We will identify gender related factors that have been measured in the existing Health Canada surveys and study the effect of sex and gender to inform health research.