 | Wendy V. Norman Professor and Chair, Family Planning Research - University of British Columbia |
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03.04.2024-29.04.2024
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03.04.2023-28.04.2023
Policy and system approaches to reach structurally disadvantaged populations: A focus on equitable access to contraception and abortion through primary care
Our residency seeks to describe policy and practice approaches that will enhance reach to structurally disadvantaged populations, for contraception and abortion care through "first-stop" primary care services.
Both Professors Mazza and Norman are leading international experts in policy and practice approaches to improving access and quality of care for women's sexual and reprodutcive health services in primary care (Professor Mazza in the Australian context and Professor Norman in Canada).
The Borcher residency will provide an oipportunity for colocation of these experts to achieve the following expected outcomes:
- To write two collaborative papers which highlight approaches to advance primary care family planning service provision.
- To develop a dissemination and knowledge transaltion (KT) strategy to communicate the key messages of these papers to health system, policy and service decision makers.
- To interact with concurrent Brocher visiting Researchers, and with previously known and new collaborators among Geneva-based organizations such as the WHO/Human Reproduction Program, to understand and foster exchange of cross-disciplinary ideas, establish new collaborations and potentially to plan future co-production of research capable to effect change.
Dr. Wendy V. Norman, MD, MHSc, CCFP, FCFP, DTM&H, is a Professor in the Department of Family Practice, at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She holds Canada’s first Chair in Family Planning Public Health Research from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2014-24). Professor Norman is the interim Executive Director of the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity at UBC, and an Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK.
Norman’s program of research has led to more than a dozen federal and provincial health policy and health system or service improvements across Canada, and provided invited evidence briefs to governments in the UK, USA and Australia. In 2015 Dr. Norman was awarded the prestigious international Guttmacher Darroch Award for advancing reproductive health policy research, in 2020 with the inaugural National Mentorship Award of the Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists of Canada, and in 2021 recognized as a Woman of Impact in Canada by the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality. She founded and leads the Canadian national collaboration: The Contraception and Abortion Research Team (www.cart-grac.ca).
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