Publication year: 2011
Source: Social Science & Medicine, Available online 29 September 2011
Zena Sharman, Joy Johnson
In this commentary, we reflect on the challenges of incorporating gender and sex into health research and funding and discuss some of the strategies we have employed in our efforts to overcome them. We write from our vantage point within Institute of Gender and Health, one of the 13 institutes that comprise the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada’s national health research funding agency
Highlights
► This commentary addresses the challenges of bridging theory and practice in gender and health research and funding. ► It discusses the implications of integrating relational, biosocial, and intersectional approaches in research and funding. ► It outlines strategies used by a Canadian gender and health research funding agency to address these challenges.