World Sexual Health Day (WSHD) is an annual awareness day managed by the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS). As a global advocacy organization, WAS is dedicated to promoting best practices in sexual health.
Taking place on September 4th, WSHD aims to dismantle social and cultural taboos surrounding sexuality while advocating for positive sexual health worldwide. This year, the theme for WSHD 2024 is Positive Relationships.
Sexual health involves a positive and respectful attitude towards sexuality and relationships, ensuring safe and enjoyable sexual experiences without coercion, discrimination, or violence.
REGISTER FOR THE EVENT
Join us on Wednesday, September 4th, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm PST, as the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) celebrates #WorldSexualHealthDay2024.
This free event will feature special guests from Options for Sexual Health and will include rapid-fire presentations on sexual and reproductive health research conducted by students, trainees, fellows, and other researchers in training.
Where: The event will be held both virtually via Zoom and in person at SHY D308 on the Oak Street Campus (4500 Oak Street).
How: To secure your spot, please register through Eventbrite.
ARE YOU A TRAINEE? SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT
Are you a trainee, student, fellow, or researcher in training? We invite you to submit your sexual health-related research project as an abstract for the opportunity to present at our WHRI World Sexual Health Day event!
What to do:
- Prepare a Microsoft Word document with your name, email address, abstract title and content.
- Ensure your abstract (excluding the title) is no more than 300 words in total.
- Submit your abstract by August 23rd at midnight. Please email your Word document to whri_cwbc@cw.bc.ca and include “World Sexual Health Day 2024 Abstract” in the subject line.
Other details:
- Your sexual health-related research can be in any stage, whether it’s planned, in progress, or completed.
- Presentation length will depend on the number of abstracts received; they tend to be rapid (~10 minutes or less).
- Presenters can present in-person, or virtually.
- Presenters must be registered for the event and able to present during the event time.
- The accepted abstracts will be announced no later than August 30th.
We look forward to celebrating World Sexual Health Day 2024 with you!
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