Evaluating the Network – Phase 2 Report released
September 23, 2016
PreVAiL, as part of its commitment to understanding the science of knowledge translation and exchange, has continually evaluated the evolution of the Network, especially the…
Read morePreVAiL Issues 2016 Progress Update
March 1, 2016
PreVAiL’s 2016 Progress Report included a number of new research and knowledge translation activities. The report also provides information and links to the over 100…
Read moreOfficial Launch of the VEGA Project Website
January 1, 2016
The official launch of the website for VEGA Project: A Public Health Response to Family Violence. The VEGA Project is the first project funded under…
Read morePreventing child maltreatment: CIHR Foundation grant
March 1, 2015
Tracie Afifi leads a team including Harriet MacMillan, Michael Boyle, Jitender Sareen and other PreVAiL members that has been awarded a CIHR Foundation grant entitled…
Read morePreVAiL Signs On to Co-Lead New Canadian Initiative on Public Health Response to Family Violence
February 20, 2015
On February 20, 2015, the Canadian government announced significant new funding for the response to family violence – a total of $10 million annually for…
Read moreMajor new research program and network on the impact of domestic violence on workers and workplaces
December 1, 2014
The impact of intimate partner violence on workers and workplaces Nadine Wathen, with Barb MacQuarrie, Community Director of the Centre for Research and Education on…
Read morePreVAiL Issues 2014 Progress Update
June 1, 2014
PreVAiL updates the 2012 progress report with a 30+ page document providing highlights of work over the previous two years, as well as a comprehensive…
Read moreAn IPV intervention in the context of nurse home visitation: the NFP Curriculum Study
January 1, 2014
The randomized controlled trial (RCT) testing the Nurse Family Partnership-Intimate Partner Violence Intervention (NFP-IPVI – see BMC-Health Services Research) developed by the NFP IPV Research…
Read morePreVAiL Issues 2012 Progress Update
November 1, 2012
In November 2012, PreVAiL issued a progress update forming the basis of PreVAiL’s Mid-Term report to CIHR’s Institute for Gender and Health. View the 2012…
Read morePreVAiL members lead replications of online safety planning aids for women experiencing DV
January 1, 2012
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe leads a team including PreVAiL members Colleen Varcoe (co-PI), Harriet MacMillan and Nadine Wathen (co-Is) on a CIHR-funded grant entitled “Effectiveness of an…
Read morePreVAiL Invited to Join WHO Violence Prevention Alliance
March 1, 2010
The World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) is an opportunity for groups from all sectors (governmental, non-governmental and private) and levels (community, national, regional…
Read morePreVAiL Funding Announced by Canada’s Health Minister
January 1, 2010
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announces funding for three Centres for Research Development in Gender, Violence and Mental Health, including PreVAiL.
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