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Health Together – Youth access to contraception in Canada: What happens when cost is removed?
29 septembre 2025 @ 11h00 - 12h00
This is a free webinar for the love of learning. No CEU/CPD/PDA
Please join Health Together… for a webinar by Dr. Sarah Munro. The webinar is open to all and free of charge. We host webinars every two months. All welcome!
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Learning Objectives from Webinar:
- Discuss the barriers facing youth in Canada who seek or consider contraception care.
- Summarize the impacts of a provincial policy in British Columbia to provide free prescription contraception.
- Reflect on the role of creative tools in addressing health and social issues.
Dr. Sarah Munro
Sarah Munro, PhD, MA, BA Hon, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health School of Public Health University of Washington and the Director of the Reproductive Choices Lab (www.reprochoiceslab.org). Dr. Munro conducts health services research with a focus on knowledge mobilization and implementation science to understand, What are the factors that influence equitable access to high-quality, culturally-safe, sexual and reproductive health care for equity-deserving populations? She leads several large national and international studies in close partnership with patients, including a community-based investigation to understand youth contraception access in Canada, The Ask Us Project.
Victoria Paller – Co-Presenter
Victoria recently completed her MSc in the Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences Program at UBC, where her thesis focused on youth access to contraception in BC under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Munro and Dr. Laura Schummers. She also holds a BHSc from the University of Ottawa and is passionate about advancing access to sexual and reproductive health through community-engaged research.
Kaiya Jacob – Co-Presenter
Kaiya BBJacob (she/her) is a MSW student at York University, a published scholar, trained doula, community worker, and researcher. Born and raised on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories as settler of mixed Swedish, Irish, German, and Afro-Trinidadian descent, anti-oppression is central to her values and her work. In her Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Gender, Sexuality, Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, she focused on the role of communications in community building and advocacy for Black, racialized, and queer communities.
