I'd be happy to elaborate on that.
In Canada the approach we have taken to filling the existing gaps in knowledge on women veterans and military women more broadly has been mostly reactive—responding to problems that arise or media reports that arise—but there hasn't really been that paradigm shift that I think needs to happen whereby we see a whole-of-government approach that is proactive and that looks at coordinating between research happening at DND/CAF and research happening at VAC and really creating a pan-Canadian research strategy.
Some of the things that would really help us to move forward on this would be to have a full-time dedicated position on women's research at DND/CAF and a full-time dedicated position on women veteran research at VAC, and then to think about how to collaborate across those lines. For example, there is the DND/VAC steering committee that looks a bit at coordination across departments, but it would be really helpful to have a focus there on the women's health issue and also to have input from experts and from women veterans.