Canadian Female, Woman, and Girl Athlete Health and Security Group of Research and Observe | SIPRC

The focus of this convention, held September 23-25, 2025, was the promotion of athlete well being and security in sport, with a selected deal with feminine, girls, and woman athletes. There is a quickly rising physique of analysis on proof knowledgeable impression, management, and coaching in athlete well being and security in sport nationally and internationally. However, many gaps stay inside analysis that focuses on females, girls, and women, and this have to be a precedence given inequity in harm charges and well being outcomes for females, girls, and women.

This necessary matter introduced collectively researchers and leaders throughout 6 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institutes together with Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, Gender and Health, Human Development, Child and Youth Health, Population and Public Health, Indigenous Peoples’ Health, and Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction.

Building on the momentum of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Female, Woman, and Girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) Consensus (Lausanne March 31-April 2, 2025), we highlighted the impression Canadian analysis and researchers are having on this house, in addition to that of worldwide transdisciplinary analysis collaborators throughout a number of contexts from IOC Research Centres.

The FAIR Consensus co-leads are Dr. Carolyn Emery (Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre – SIPRC – Canadian IOC Research Centre) and Professor Kay Crossley (La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre – LASEM – Australian IOC Research Centre). The FAIR Consensus was knowledgeable by 5 systematic critiques and meta-analyses (harm particular), a scoping evaluation targeted on dissemination and implementation, and an idea mapping mission figuring out obstacles and facilitators. A Delphi mission to determine FAIR Research Priorities is in progress.

This summit was led by three IOC Research Centre girl leaders: Dr. Carolyn Emery is the Chair of SIPRC, and Dr. Suzanne Leclerc (Medical director at Institut nationwide du sport du Québec) is a Chair of the Réseau Francophone Olympique de la Recherche en Médecine du sport (ReFORM) and Professor Kay Crossley is the Chair of LASEM. Together they led this 2 ½ day summit highlighting transdisciplinary analysis, nationwide and worldwide collaborations, early profession researchers, and panelists (e.g., clinicians, youth, athletes, coaches, sport governing our bodies).