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  Fertile Ground, Healthy Harvest
A Decade of the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence

   
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The research and publication of this study were funded by the Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE). The PWHCE is financially supported by the Women's Health Contribution Program, Bureau of Women's Health and Gender Analysis, Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the PWHCE or the official policy of Health Canada.


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Alex Merrill

Introduction

An exciting new era for women in Canada began in 1995, when the federal government announced Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence and other Centres of Excellence for Women's Health, now collectively called the Women's Health Contribution Program, as part of a national strategy to address women's health.

Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence came together over the next two years, after a consortium of women's health advocacy groups in Manitoba and Saskatchewan coordinated the planning and vision that shaped the prairie submission. The proposal for PWHCE received approval in 1996, and operations began in the spring of 1997.

From the beginning, PWHCE has emphasized innovative approaches to research, including:

  • promoting partnerships between representatives and researchers in the community and in universities and other institutions,
  • developing close links to policymakers, and
  • promoting community-based research methods.
During our first nine years, PWHCE had three program offices, hosted by and housed at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, the University of Regina, and the University of Winnipeg, our administrative centre. In 2006, we expanded by opening a fourth site at the University of Regina campus in Prince Albert.

Our mission
The mission of the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence is to improve women's and girls' health through high quality women-centred, action-oriented research and policy analysis. The Centre supports and fosters research designed to increase knowledge of the factors that influence women's and girls' health and well-being. Building on this research and analysis, the Centre develops gender-sensitive policy and program recommendations that promote women's and girls' health.

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