In this addition to the Voices from the Margins of a Crisis series, blogger Madison Hargreaves reflects on the pandemic as an eating disorder stressor.
A Pandemic Crisis: Eating Disorder Cases on the Rise
“Public health can’t do it alone: We need a network approach to beat the #secondwave”
A team at the Lab for Knowledge Translation in Health at Western University has compiled examples of grass-roots communications and interventions that have successfully cut through the digital noise and affected how populations understand the pandemic. The group is now building a network of coordinated and supported professionals to help spread awareness and accurate information about COVID:
Our CIHR-funded team wants to bring the power of social media micro-influencers and citizen science to public health. We are building a digital communications tool-kit to catalyze more grassroots public health communications campaigns. We are actively searching for public health leaders and communications professionals to help us design and launch this resource. We will also be setting up a working group for industry professionals, policy leaders, and researchers to contribute their insights to our work. Read more in our latest blog and fill out this form to join the working group.
Susan Rodger on Quality, Equitable Education
“If we hope to close the gaps between genders and between people, we need to start with education.” In this video, Susan Rodger (Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology at the Faculty of Education at Western University) presents at the City Symposium on Quality Education.
Anti-Racism as/and/in Place Making
This panel discussion at last week’s Place Matters Conference explored questions about anti-racism efforts in London: How do we talk about racism? What does anti-racist work not look like? What are some direct actions we can take? Moderated by Jenna Rose Sands, in conversation with Anthea Williams, Amanda L. Kennedy, Alicia Samuel, Heenal Rajani, and Sâkihitowin Awâsis.
Homelessness and Place
In this video, recorded for the Place Matters Conference last week, a panel discusses the question, “How can we make safe places for the most vulnerable people in our community?” Shelley Yeo hosts the discussion with Anthea Williams (Unity Project), Julie B (SafeSpace London), Leticia Mizon (The Nameless), Susan Macphail (former director of My Sisters Place), and Allison DeBlaire (519 Pursuit).