The Vancouver Women’s Health Collective advocates for appropriate, equitable and quality health care for women through the media, by meeting with elected officials, by speaking out at community events, and through our involvement with coalitions.
Advocacy & Media
Our Advocacy
In The Media
Our priorities:
- The lack of women-centered and trauma-informed care
- Women’s reproductive health
- Women’s health care rights
- The privatization of health care and its impact on women
- Barriers to access comprehensive health care for all women
Our actions:
- Participation in the BC CEDAW group (Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) that submitted 2 reports to the United Nations
- Patients in Education (PIE) – advocating for “health professional education that fully integrates patient and community expertise and lived experience to maximise health and social outcomes.”
- Women’s advocacy organizations and government funding for our work.
- June 13, 2017 – Our Executive Director France-Emmanuelle Joly discusses Vancouver Women’s Health Collective with Roundhouse Radio 98.3’s Don Shafer
- Mai 17, 2017 – Opening of SisterSpace, a supervised injection site for women – Radio-Canada (in French)
- February 2, 2017 – Step-it up campaign and call for action to Canada and BC to implement CEDAW recommendations – Radio-Canada (in French)
- January 26, 2016 – B.C. women feel health needs unmet – Vancouver 24hrs
- March 8, 2013 – Vancouver: International Women’s Day marked in Vancouver by celebrating improvements to safe access to health and wellness for women in the inner city – Central City Foundation