Episode 33: Conservative Cultures and Sexual Education

Welcome to the sixth season of The Re:Pro Health Podcast! In this episode, we are joined by Meaghan Ray (they/them), a graduate student in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, as they discuss their journey as a patient navigating non-traditional family planning and assisted reproductive therapy in Canada. 

Take a look at Meaghan Ray's YouAlberta spotlight here: https://www.ualberta.ca/youalberta/2024/01/innovator-spotlight-meaghan-ray-peters.html

This episode will finish off the fifth season of our podcast. In this final episode, we are joined by Dr. Brotto a leading researcher and expert on mindfulness and its impact on sexual health and well-being at UBC, to discuss how mindfulness can improve sex lives post illness such as cancer or in day-to-day living. 

Thank you for supporting this season of our episode. Please leave a review for our podcast and share your thoughts and suggestions for a chance to win a $20 gift card. This giveaway is open until Friday, June 16th, 2023. 

Join us as we welcome back Dr. Chronopoulus to chat all things regarding LGBTQ+ sexual health with helpful tips and resources. If you are interested in revisiting our previous episode "Providing Transgender Care" with Dr. Chronopoulus where we had a conversation about providing care for gender and sexually diverse patients please us the link below.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1U2IeZcRQhuN78S4g7FXgS?si=-ovHFf5tQtK1Dq2TnUiv3Q

Join us in discussing the support of loved ones as they experience menopause in advance of Mother's Day weekend. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Beate Sydora and Dr. Sue Ross to learn more about menopause and how it impacts women's quality of life. 

In this week's episode, we are joined by Dr. Ina Park from the University of California, San Francisco to discuss the multifaceted history of sexually transmitted infections. We hope that this episode can build on our previous episode 56 on STIs and Monkeypox and help learn more about STIs. 

We are delighted to be joined by Dr. Jessica Kirkwood on this week's episode to explore inner-city reproductive health. Dr. Kirkwood, speaks on harm reduction in the inner city population. 

Join us as we continue our conversation on abortion access in Canada. In this episode, we are joined by TK Pritchard, a leading expert on access to abortion in Canada and a champion for sexual health and reproductive justice. We discuss some challenges and barriers to abortion access in Canada and more. 

Our latest episode is here and we are joined by Dr. Angel Foster a leading advocate for reproductive health and abortion access to discuss how recent changes have influenced abortion access in Canada in the United States' abortion care laws. 

*This episode was recorded on November 4th, 2022. 

Join us together for another episode with Dr. Ameeta Singh, a clinical professor from the University of Alberta with a special interest in sexually transmitted infections and HIV. Listen in on our conversation about the transmission of currently circulating STIs and the new Monkeypox infections. 

Join us together with Dr. Phil Bach from the University of Alberta to start our new season of the podcast with a chat about male reproductive health, fertility and erectile dysfunction. Challenges with male reproductive health and fertility are widely under-recognized and we hope this episode brings this to light.