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Women’s Xchange has compiled a collection of resources that fall within three categories: Sex & Gender Based Analysis, Addressing Issues of Equity and Community Based Research.

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Women's Xchange

Gender Matters

This is an excellent new video that was developed through a collaboration between USAID and PEPFAR, and focuses on practical strategies for incorporating sex and gender into health research. It's quick, creative and includes ideas that really take you beyond the usual "disaggregate your data" recommendation.
Women's Xchange

Sex and Gender Considerations in Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Systematic Review

The importance of sex and gender in the diagnosis and management of health conditions is well established, but the extent to which this evidence is integrated into clinical practice guidelines remains unknown. We aimed to determine the proportion of Canadian clinical practice guidelines that integrate evidence on sex and gender considerations.
Women's Xchange

Why Sex and Gender Matter in Implementation Research

The present paper describes the application of methods for integrating sex and gender in implementation research. Consistently asking critical questions about sex and gender will likely lead to the discovery of positive outcomes, as well as unintended consequences. The result has potential to strengthen both the practice and science of implementation, improve health outcomes and reduce gender inequities.
Women's Xchange

Essential metrics for assessing sex & gender integration in health research proposals involving human participants

To promote excellence in sex and gender integration in health research, Women's Xchange developed a set of metrics to asses the quality of sex and gender considerations in research proposals. These metrics are designed to assist both researchers in developing proposals and reviewers in making funding decisions.

University of Washington

Disseminating the Results of Community Based Research

Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum presents an opportunity to explore the practice of CBPR as an innovative approach for improving health. The curriculum intends to foster critical thinking and action on issues impacting CBPR and community-institutional partnerships. The curriculum is built upon a combination of experiential and didactic approaches to teaching and learning.
University of Washington

Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships

Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum presents an opportunity to explore the practice of CBPR as an innovative approach for improving health. The curriculum intends to foster critical thinking and action on issues impacting CBPR and community-institutional partnerships. The curriculum is built upon a combination of experiential and didactic approaches to teaching and learning.
University of Washington

Ethics and Community Based Research

Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum presents an opportunity to explore the practice of CBPR as an innovative approach for improving health. The curriculum intends to foster critical thinking and action on issues impacting CBPR and community-institutional partnerships. The curriculum is built upon a combination of experiential and didactic approaches to teaching and learning.
University of Kansas

Community Tool Box 7 - Writing a Grant Application for Funding

The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision by providing educational modules and tools. This link takes you to the table of contents, where you can click on a topic of interest to find a specific guide.

University of Kansas

Community Tool Box 6 - Evaluating the Initiative

The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision by providing educational modules and tools. This link takes you to the table of contents, where you can click on a topic of interest to find a specific guide.

University of Kansas

Community Tool Box 5 - Developing an Intervention

The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision by providing educational modules and tools. This link takes you to the table of contents, where you can click on a topic of interest to find a specific guide.

University of Kansas

Community Tool Box 4 - Developing Strategic and Action Plans

The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision by providing educational modules and tools. This link takes you to the table of contents, where you can click on a topic of interest to find a specific guide.

University of Kansas

Community Tool Box 3 - Analyzing Problems and Goals

The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision by providing educational modules and tools. This link takes you to the table of contents, where you can click on a topic of interest to find a specific guide.

University of Kansas

Community Tool Box 2 - Assessing Community needs and Resources

The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision by providing educational modules and tools. This link takes you to the table of contents, where you can click on a topic of interest to find a specific guide.

University of Kansas

Community Tool Box 1 - Creating and Maintaining Partnerships

The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision by providing educational modules and tools. This link takes you to the table of contents, where you can click on a topic of interest to find a specific guide.

University of California, Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Review Criteria and Rating Scale for Community-Based Participatory Research

This tool has two components. The first portion lists review criteria for community-based participatory research proposals. The second portion applies a 5-point rating scale to these criteria to help researchers and their partners discern the degree to which their project design is participatory and action-oriented.

The University of Northampton

An Introductory Guide to Putting Research Into Practice

This chapter, focused on “Defining the Research Question” uses the PICO structure to help you create a research question. The article assumes that you have identified a general area that you are interested in researching and will give guidance on how to take that idea and shape it into a researchable question. The “Introductory guide to putting research into practice” is a publication out of the Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.
Ontario Women's Health Network

Inclusion Research Handbook

Developed by the Ontario Women’s Health Network and our Count Us In! project partners, Inclusion Research is conducted by and for women who are marginalized to ensure their voices inform the development of health policy, programs and research. At the centre of this methodology are Inclusion Researchers, marginalized women who are trained and employed to participate in all aspects of the research, including project design, data collection and analysis and results dissemination. The Inclusion Research Handbook discusses the background of Inclusion Research and provides a guide to conducting this form of community-based research. This tool includes an Inclusion Researcher training program manual and sample forms, documents and handouts.

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

Successful Strategies to Engage Research Partners for Translating Evidence into Action in Community Health: A Critical Review

This article undertakes a critical reviewing describing key strategies supporting development of participatory research (RP) teams to engage partners for creation and translation of action-oriented knowledge.

Access Alliance

Community Based Research Toolkit 2

The Community Based Research Toolkits were developed by Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services. The "Community Based Research" toolkit is geared at researchers and practitioners and has over 100 hands-on ready to use tools and templates. The "Everyone Can Do Research" toolkit is geared at building research capacity for community members and students.

Access Alliance

Community Based Research Toolkit 1

The Community Based Research Toolkits were developed by Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services. The "Community Based Research" toolkit is geared at researchers and practitioners and has over 100 hands-on ready to use tools and templates. The "Everyone Can Do Research" toolkit is geared at building research capacity for community members and students.

University of Sheffield

Toolkit to Address Inequalities in Access to Care

This toolkit provides: 1) a step by step approach that should help to clarify your thinking, guide your actions, and provide other supporting materials, to enable you to find some evidence on which to base some decisions and actions to address your ‘inequalities in access’ problem. 2) a structured method to bring about a change programme. 3) information to help you respond to the modernization agenda. 4) a potential next step after a local health impact or health needs assessment
Public Health Ontario

Health Equity Assessment

The Health Equity Assessment is from Public Health Ontario. This report presents an analysis of the application of selected health equity assessment tools (HEATs) from Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Canada. The content, current as of June 2012, is organized in two parts: Part One -Summary of the Facilitators and Barriers: Summarizing factors that facilitate or hinder the application of HEATs and uptake of resulting recommendations, Part Two - Case Studies: Summarizing a selection of existing practices in the application and evaluation of health equity focused tools.
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

Health Equity Impact Assessment Workbook

This provides the template and workbook to help you use HEIA.

Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA)

HEIA is a decision support tool which walks users through the steps of identifying how a program, policy or similar initiative will impact population groups in different ways. HEIA surfaces unintended potential impacts. The end goal is to maximize positive impacts and reduce negative impacts that could potentially widen health disparities between population groups—in short, more equitable delivery of the program, service, policy etc. Effective use of HEIA is dependent on good evidence.

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health

Let's talk...Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity

This resource is from the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. Use this resource to: 1) Build a strategic framework for your organization’s health equity work 2) Assess the areas of action where your organization is strong, and where it could devote more attention 3) Encourage public health employees to look at the broad range of activities that can help reduce social inequities in health 4) Spark dialogue and action in lunch room and staff meeting settings.

Learning Network

Gender Diversity in the VAW Sector: Identifying Barriers and Recommendations for Consideration

"This discussion paper is informed by the Learning Network Knowledge Exchange on gender diversity in the violence against women sector (VAW) held in Toronto, Ontario in November 2016. It includes key themes which emerged from the panel presentations and discussions by participants including barriers to gender diversity in the VAW sector and recommendations for consideration."
Health Nexus

Health Equity

This video, produced by Health Nexus, explores the Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) tool and describes how to conduct your own HEIA.

Government of Canada

Panel on Research Ethics Fairness and Equity in Research Participation

Inclusiveness in research and fair distribution of benefits and burdens should be important considerations for researchers. This policy overview addresses issues of inclusion and provides guidance regarding inclusion in research of specific groups such as women, children, the elderly and those who lack the capacity to decide whether or not to participate in research.

Cochrane Collaboration

Equity Checklist for Systematic Review Authors

This checklist is intended for use by systematic review authors planning and conducting reviews with a focus on health equity.
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention

Promoting Health Equity - A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health

This workbook serves as an interactive guide for users that are interested in addressing social determinants of health in order to promote health and achieve health equity.
Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)

Institute of Population and Public Health - Strategic Plan

The shifting state of population and public health science—from understanding social and physical determinants of health to examining the health and health equity impacts of multi-level program and policy interventions—requires that researchers and other stakeholders investigate pathways to health equity. Moreover, it reinforces the need to understand how these interventions are best implemented within both complex adaptive systems and socio-cultural and political contexts. Innovations in methods and theories are required to support research in this field. Recognizing these needs, the IPPH strategic plan focuses on enhancing capacity for population and public health research and knowledge translation in Canada. Built on achievements and partnerships the Institute has developed over the past few years, it was developed in consultation with the Institute Advisory Board and researchers and decision-makers from across Canada. Pages 9 – 12 of this document, in particular, are relevant to the role Equity plays in this report.

Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH)-University of Victoria

Health Equity Tools 2.0 2016

Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH) is a 5-year (2011-2016) program of research funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Their aim is to produce new knowledge for systemic promotion of health equity. The purpose of this inventory is to supply public health practitioners with a descriptive summary of health equity tools.

World Bank

Integrating a Gender Dimension into Monitoring & Evaluation of Rural Development Projects

The World Bank’s rural development strategy (Rural Development: From Vision to Action, 1997) recognizes the importance of integrating gender into all aspects of rural development as a crosscutting issue. This document presents an appropriate framework for assessing progress in achieving broad-based and inclusive rural development.
Women's Policy Office

Gender Based Analysis Tool

This analysis provided by the Women's Policy Office is recognized for applying the benefits of gender inclusive analysis, as well as providing a method for applying gender inclusive research in policy and program analysis and development.
Women's Health Research Network

Intersectionality - Moving Women's Health Research and Policy Forward

The purpose of this primer is to explore the following question: How can health researchers, policy analysts, program and service managers, decision makers, and academics effectively apply an intersectional perspective to their day-to-day work? This primer specifically focuses on the applicability of intersectionality in the context of women’s health.
Women's Health Research Network

Better Science with Sex and Gender: A Primer for Health Research

This primer provides pragmatic suggestions for how to successfully employ a sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) in health research. Specifically, it defines sex and gender, outlines some designs for operationalizing SGBA in health research, and offers numerous illustrations of already-generated knowledge that uses an SGBA approach. This primer is a broad, comprehensive guide that applies to all areas of health research, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) four pillars of health research — biomedical, clinical, health systems, and social and cultural dimensions of health — as well as areas of health policy.

University of British Columbia, British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex and Health Research

This book is a textbook dedicated to critically examining gender and sex in study designs, methods, and analysis in health research. This book draws attention to some of the methodological complexities in this enterprise and offers ways to thoughtfully address these by drawing on empirical examples across a range of topics and disciplines.
United Nations Population Fund

Frequently Asked Questions About Gender Equality

What is meant by “gender”? What is the difference between gender equity, gender equality and women’s empowerment? Why is it important to take gender concerns into account in terms of programme design and implementation? What is “gender mainstreaming”? Why is “gender equality” important? Is gender equality a concern for men?

Status of Women Canada

Gender Based Analysis Plus

This interactive website answers many questions regarding the research process such as, Is sex the same thing as gender? What do assumptions have to do with it? How does a gender based analysis fit into my type of work?

SGBA eLearning Resource

Rising to the Challenge

This site features a number of free tutorials that will allow you to explore the core concepts and process of sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA). Sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) rests on the understanding that both biology (sex) and society (gender) affect people’s lives and their health.

Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative

Fostering a Sex and Gender Approach to Medical and Educational Practice

The Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative provides a digital library of evidence-based sex and gender educational resources. They also increase awareness that sex and gender matters for individuals, clinical outcomes, and in health systems. Additionally, they promote sex and gender related collaborations among diverse groups and individuals.

Routledge Women's and Gender Studies

Gender Studies Collection

This collection offers access to over 80 free articles that seek to highlight contributions on the subject of gender, feminism, identity, sexuality, and more. The articles are categorized into the below broad themes. Simply click on the subject area to access the article for free.
Research and Innovation - European Commission

Gender in European Union Funded Research Toolkit

This toolkit and training package give the research community practical tools to integrate gender aspects into research, including equal opportunities for women and men and the gender dimension of research, thereby contributing to excellence in research.
Rainbow Health Ontario

Designing Surveys And Questionnaires

This fact sheet, according to Rainbow Health Ontario, is best used as an overview of issues to consider when developing study measures to better capture information about sexuality and gender. Since no single measure can adequately account for the diversity of attractions, identities and behaviours found within LGBTQ communities, it is recommended that users of the fact sheet take the examples as starting points and adjust them as needed.
Public Health Agency of Canada

Incorporating Sex and Gender into Health Interventions (Chapter 4)

This chapter from the Public Health Agency of Canada gives examples of programs, policies and research that have incorporated sex and gender interventions into various health sectors such as mental health, healthy relationship grade school education, promoting healthy weights, aboriginal health and heart health. It also provides specific examples of organizations around Canada and globally that have successfully created various programs with a sex and gender based analysis.
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA)

The Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) is a decision support tool which walks users through the steps of identifying how a program, policy or similar initiative will impact population groups in different ways. The end goal is to maximize positive impacts and reduce negative impacts that could potentially widen health disparities between population groups—in short, more equitable delivery of the program, service, policy etc.
National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health

The Science of Sex & Gender in Human Health Online Course Series

This online series of courses was designed to create a permanent foundation for sex and gender accountability in medical research and treatment by enabling researchers, clinicians, and students in the health professions to integrate knowledge of sex and gender differences and similarities into their research and practice.

National Democratic Institute

A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks

This is a short guide to gender analysis tools and gender frameworks, including the Harvard Analytical Framework, the Moser Gender Analysis Framework and Gender Audit, and the Women’s Empowerment Framework
The Learning Network

Intersectionality

The Learning Network uses a gender and anti-oppression analysis to understand violence against women. This foundational area of the Learning Network contains resources to further understanding of intersectionality and to promote application of a gender and anti-oppression analysis to violence against women (VAW) research, resource development, training and public education, and services.

League of European Research Universities

Gendered Research and Innovation: Integrating Sex and Gender Analysis into the Research Process

This advice paper outlines research areas with a clear need for sex and gender analysis in research and innovation (GRI), including health and medicine. It gives concrete examples of research projects that include a GRI dimension and looks at established or emerging practices for integrating sex and gender in university-based research settings and other organizational settings.
Institute for Gender and Health (CIHR)

Shaping Science for a Healthier World

The Institute of Gender and Health (IGH)’s mission is to foster research excellence regarding the influence of gender and sex on the health of women and men throughout life, and to apply these research findings to identify and address pressing health challenges. The IGH is part of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The IGH created two videos that demonstrate the importance of adopting a sex and gender lens when conducting health research.
Global Affairs Canada

Policy on Gender Equality

The goal of Global Affairs Canada's gender equality policy is to support the achievement of equality between women and men to ensure sustainable development.
Gendered Innovations

Methods of Sex and Gender Analysis

This section presents state-of-the-art methods of sex and gender analysis. Methods are applied in Case Studies.

Gender Statistics Manual

Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics

The purpose of this manual is to provide methodological and analytical information necessary to improve the availability, quality, and use of gender statistics in countries with less developed statistical systems. The approach and the structure of the manual are constructed around the concept of gender mainstreaming in national statistics. The manual is targeted primarily to statisticians working in less developed national statistical systems and it can be used as resource material for training in gender statistics
GENDER-NET

Integrating the Gender Analysis into Research (IGAR)

This site contains a set of tools to assist researchers and peers reviewers/evaluators with integrating sex and gender considerations into projects, programmes and policies, and provides more information about the importance of sex and gender in research and innovation.

GENDER-NET

Manuals with guidelines on the integration of sex and gender analysis into research contents, recommendations for curricula development and indicators

This report is designed to assist national/regional research funding and performing organizations with the know-how to integrate sex and gender considerations into policies, programmes, plans and strategies, and to raise awareness about the importance of sex and gender in research and innovation.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Integrating gender issues in food security, agriculture and rural development

The guidelines outline opportunities to incorporate gender into both program process (formulation, implementation and monitoring and evaluation) and project document. They include a general gender equality checklist as well as thematic checklists to mainstream gender in areas of cross-cutting importance for agriculture and rural development. A list of useful resources is also provided.

The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) established a Gender Policy Committee

The Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines

The SAGER guidelines are a comprehensive procedure for reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analyses, results and interpretation of findings.

Cochrane Collaborative

Why Sex and Gender Matter in Systematic Reviews

Consideration of sex and gender in health research is essential for informed decision-making, reduction of harm, and for the promotion of health equity; this brief guide helps define, understand and apply a sex and gender lens in research. It also includes a planning tool that can help integrate sex and gender when planning your work.

Cochrane Collaborative

Sex and Gender in Systematic Reviews Planning Tool

This tool will help reviewers ask and answer questions on sex and gender based analysis when planning a systematic review.

CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network

Standards for Collecting Sex-Disaggregated Data for Gender Analysis: A Guide for CGIAR Researchers

This document spells out some simple and achievable steps for collecting relevant sex-disaggregated data for five broad research areas.
Canadian Women's Health Network

Sex and Gender Based Analysis

This list is a selection of Canadian and International resources available on the Internet to aid health researchers in understanding and using sex and gender based analysis (SGBA).

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

What a Difference Sex and Gender Make

The casebook is a resource of concrete examples — from across the gamut of health disciplines and topics — of how gender and sex considerations are being incorporated in health research and why this is important
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Gender, Sex and Health Research Guide: A tool for CIHR Applicants

The purpose of this tool is to give health researchers a framework for thinking through how gender and/or sex might be integrated into their research designs.
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Brining Gender and Diversity Analysis to our Work

This checklist is an iterative process that aims to integrate biological, social, economic and cultural equity into healthy public policy and research.
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Sex-Specific Medical Research: Why Women's Health Can't Wait.

This report examines how men and women experience illness differently by looking closely at four diseases where this is especially true: cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, depression and Alzheimer’s disease. The report was co-authored by Susan F. Wood, PhD, executive director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), and colleagues at the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Biology of Sex Differences

Manuscripts Regarding Sex and Biology

Biology of Sex Differences considers manuscripts on all aspects of the effects of sex on biology and disease

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