Looking at research through a different lens: The Canadian Institute of gender and health

In 2001, a national research institute devoted to the study of inter-relationships among sex, gender, and health was created by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) as the first of its kind in the world. Established with a vision "to transform understanding of the impact of gender and sex on health across the lifespan and ensure its application in health research in Canada," the Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) supports research to address how sex (biological factors) and gender (sociocultural experiences) interact with other factors that influence health to create conditions and problems that are unique, more prevalent, more serious, or different with respect to risk factors or effective interventions for women, men, girls, and boys.