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“People living with pain also frequently experience co-morbidities such as addiction and mental illness which are now being unwittingly exacerbated by government responses to the coronavirus pandemic.”

Fiona Webster, Laura Connoy, Abhi Sud, Andrew D. Pinto & Joel Katz (2020) Grappling with Chronic Pain and Poverty during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Canadian Journal of Pain, DOI: 10.1080/24740527.2020.1766855

Fiona Webster and her team recently published an editorial in the Canadian Journal of Pain that explores the “implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for people with chronic pain, and in particular, those also living with low socioeconomic status.”

In this video, Julie B (co-founder, coordinator and Board Chair of SafeSpace London) and Jodi Hall (volunteer and researcher with SafeSpace London and professor in Doula Studies and the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Nursing Program at Fanshawe) provide an overview SafeSpace London, including an update on the organization’s work and advocacy in context of COVID-19 (recorded at the City Symposium on Gender Equality on March 31, 2020).

Today the Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion and the Pillar Nonprofit Network launch a series of essays, articles, and reflections titled Voices from the Margins of a Crisis. The series presents a critical account of how social inequities unfold around us during the COVID-19 pandemic, blending background research and first-hand perspectives.

To begin this journey with us, please read the introductory overview of the project and the first essay in the series, a reflection by Jeff Preston titled Considering Complex Lives, Value and COVID-19.

New articles will be added at crhesi.uwo.ca/margins and updates will be provided in this space.

If you are interested in contributing to Voices from the Margins of a Crisis, please email Tanya Benjamin at tbenjam4@uwo.ca and Eaman Fahmy efahmy@pillarnonprofit.ca

$66 million per year. That is how much nursing professor Cheryl Forchuk estimates that psychiatric wards in Ontario would save by implementing a discharge model for patients that provides more wraparound supports.

Watch a brief video overview and read story in Western News.