The Platform Advisory Committee (PAC) oversees and provides strategic guidance on all AVA activities in accordance with AVA’s Guiding Principles. In fulfilling this mandate, the PAC contributes to AVA’s achievement of capacity building to transform health and social services delivery for girls, women, and gender-diverse people in the context of the Canadian health and social services systems.
Co-Applicant
Lana Wells; Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Calgary, and Member of Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development’s Advisory Council on Gender-Based Violence
Collaborator
William (Bill) Ghali & Katrina Milaney; Vice-President Research, University of Calgary
Diane Hiebert-Murphy & Kendra Nixon; Vice-Provost, University of Manitoba
Gwen Moncayo; CUPS Calgary
Doris Payer; Knowledge Broker, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and Addiction
Angela Soulsby; Patient
Early Career Researcher, Co-Applicant
Sarah Yercich; Associate Director of the FREDA Centre; Capilano University, School of Social Sciences, Women’s and Gender Studies & Simon Fraser University, School of Criminology
EDIA Champion, Co-Applicant
Jackie Gruber; British Columbia Institute of Technology
Indigenous Champion, Co-Applicant
Marlyn Bennett; Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work & the Werklund School of Education
Malcom King; Professor, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
PAC Chair, Principal Knowledge User
Carlene Donnelly; Executive Director of CUPS
Racialized Diversity Champion, Co-Applicant
Regine King; Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
Trainee
Stefan Kurbatfinski; PhD Student, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
Janelle Lee; PhD Student, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary