Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence is one of the Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health supported by the Women’s Health Contribution Program, through the Bureau of Women’s Health and Gender Analysis of Health Canada.

The Centres are dedicated to improving the health status of Canadian women by supporting policy-oriented, and community-based research and analysis on the social and other determinants of women’s health.

MOST RECENT NEWS and EVENTS.

	Rising to the Challenge: Sex-and gender-based analysis for health planning, policy and research in Canada. New! Now Available. Click here for more information.
	Prairie Women Prepared for Disaster. An Emergency Planning Guide For Women’s Community Organizations, by Dr. Elaine Enarson. Recently released, learn more.
	PWHCE is pleased to be part of The Source: The Women's Health Data Directory. The Source/La source is a bilingual web-based tool to assist researchers, policy makers, health planners, and students identify sources of health data for women and girls in British Columbia, Manitoba and elsewhere. The Source website.
	Guides to Gender-Based Analysis & Health Profile Development With the support of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), PWHCE has developed two practical guides that illustrate how to carry out a gender-based analysis (GBA) of health data and how to develop a ‘health profile’ that integrates a GBA throughout. The guides contain numerous examples, case studies, check lists, and templates, and are available in English and Spanish. Learn more…
	Four new reports published this summer: Young Aboriginal Mothers in Winnipeg Lisa Murdock, M.A. Aboriginal Maternal And Infant Health In Canada: Review Of On-Reserve Programming R. Stout & R. Harp Maternal And Infant Health And The Physical Environment Of First Nations And Inuit Communities: A Summary Review R. Stout, T. Dionne Stout & R. Harp Leaders For Tomorrow: Rural Women Creating Change Report on the workshop held in Davidson, SK J. Havelock, N. Johns
	Photovoice Guide Now Available A Practical Guide to Photovoice: Sharing Pictures, Telling Stories and Changing Communities Learn more...
	A Profile of Women's Health in Manitoba Launched 11th December, 2008 at the Womens Health Clinic in Winnipeg. A Profile of Women's Health in Manitoba is a first-ever gender-based analysis of over 150 indicators of women's health. More information

	Saskatchewan Rural Youth Healthy Lifestyles and Risk Behaviour Project. An assessment of the needs of youth in rural Saskatchewan. Learn more about this project.
	January 2008 Release of: Fertile Ground, Healthy Harvest We are pleased to introduce this 10 year retrospective from Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence. Fertile Ground, Healthy Harvest celebrates our success, our accomplishments, and our plans for the future. Read more...

	Entitlements and Health Services for First Nations and Métis Women in Manitoba and Saskatchewan K. Bent, J. Havelock, M. Haworth-Brockman. Read more...
	Rural and Remote Women and the Kirby-Keon Report on Mental Health. A Preliminary Gender-Place Analysis by Jayne Melville Whyte.  Released Thursday March 29, 2007. Read more...
	Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence is a partner in "A cohort study of the impact of prion disease on farm family community health" primarily funded by PrioNet Canada and the Alberta Prion Research Institute (APRI). Learn more.