Category: Monthly

This free course presents a novel framework through which health professionals, educators, leaders, policymakers and professionals from diverse backgrounds can equitably and ethically address complex health challenges. Scientific evidence has shown that the links between human, animal and environmental health are becoming more pronounced and this widening responsibility for health across disciplines brings with it the recognition that an important transformation for the upcoming workforce is required in attitudes and practices.

Source: One Health (Short Course) – Global Health Equity Hub

This mini-workshop will introduce participants to the foundational knowledge and concepts related to culture, diversity, and clinical practice. This workshop approaches cultural training from a personal growth and professional growth perspective and a social justice framework. Using mental health counselling and therapy intervention as an example, this workshop will guide participants to reflect and think through critical cultural diversity issues of themselves as well as others.

See Geriatric Mental Health Education Series #1

On September 27, 2021, Dr. Opiyo Oloya, Western’s AVP (EDI) moderated the inaugural session of the monthly Schulich EDID-I Dialogues Series. The recording of the talk is now available.

Panelists:
Ming – Ka Chan, MD, Associate Professor, Max Rady College of Medicine, UManitoba 
Topic: Xenophobia and Health

Wayne Clark, EdD, Executive Director, Indigenous Health Initiatives Program, UAlberta
Topic: Indigeneity and Health

Mohammed Baobaid, PhD, Founder and Executive Director, Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration and Research Associate, Center for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children, WesternU
Topic: Islamophobia, visible religious minorities and Health

Danielle MacNeil, MD, Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, WesternU and chair, the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology’s Women in Otolaryngology Committee
Topic: EDIDI issues related to Women and Surgery.

Host: Melanie N. Katsivo, PhD, Schulich EDID Office 

The Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL) team releases new short film for the IHDCYH (Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health) Talks Competition Videos:

Teens Talk Vaping is a research project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to better understand the place of vaping (e-cigarettes) in the everyday lives of Canadian teens. Taking a ‘by-youth-for-youth’ approach, a key feature of the project is inclusion of teens trained as ‘co-researchers’ to meaningfully contribute to all aspects of the study, from data collection, to analysis, to dissemination. This short film, created by several teen co-researchers, shares key themes derived from teen-led focus groups conducted with teens aged 13-19 years from across Canada. To bring viewers into teens’ perspectives and experiences, the film takes a first-person view, following a ‘day in the life’ through the eyes of a high schooler going through the motions of a typical day – from attending school where they are exposed to vaping in the washrooms, to party culture on the weekend where vaping is a prevalent activity, to social media where vaping content in omnipresent. By anonymizing the figure and evoking an emotional journey, the film captures some of the tensions teens face in navigating vaping opportunities and decisions in different everyday environments.

The film is dedicated in memory of Dr. Eugenia Canas.