Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

The main purpose of the proposed planning meeting is to identify priorities and develop recommendations that could better support physical activity and health researchers in integrating EDIIA in their research activities, beyond completing the Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis (SGBA) modules offered by CIHR. Along with other intersectionality-based variables such as race, ethnicity, class, disability, and age, sex and gender will serve as a central theme of the discussions planned for this meeting. A focus on sex and gender is important but are often conflated, misused, not well operationalized, or not even considered in several of recent CIHR-funded publications in physical activity and health research, despite the support and resources available to researchers from CIHR. In preparation of the planning meeting, the team will conduct a scoping review on how EDIIA has been integrated in CIHR-funded physical activity and health research. This scoping review will identify the scope and gaps in the literature on which aspect of EDIIA and how EDIIA have been integrated in physical activity and health research. Specifically, the outcome of this review will guide the planning meeting discussions by examining how published, CIHR-funded research has been successful or not successful in integrating any aspects of EDIIA. The outcome of this planning meeting will include providing concrete and specific recommendations with examples on how researchers from varying fields can integrate sex and gender in their research process in a meaningful way. To achieve this goal, the participants of the planning meeting consist of individuals with varying intersectional identities working in the broad field of physical activity and health research as an early-career, pre-tenure or recently tenured researcher who has actively been incorporating EDIIA into their research.