Events

Presenters:

Jennifer Jairam – The Importance of Examining Socioeconomic Position in Health Research (Supervisors: Dr. Joel Ray and Dr. Patricia O’Campo)

Jesse Knight – Beyond instantaneous partnerships in compartmental models of sexually transmitted infections (Supervisor: Dr. Sharmistha Mishra)

Facilitator: Courtney South

Join Zoom Meeting

https://ca01web.zoom.us/j/62859084255?pwd=bUpPTDRVdURoUnNOd1NYRU54eXFiUT09

Meeting ID: 628 5908 4255

Passcode: 069709

Join us for a workshop training session with the Sexual & Gender Diversity Office who will introduce us to some foundational awareness and knowledge related to sexual and gender diversity. Along with reviewing some core concepts and terminology, participants will explore how sexual and gender diversity relate to work with patients in frontline and in research contexts. Further, the training will discuss concrete strategies to make workplace and health care provision settings more inclusive and equitable for sexual and gender diverse people through an intersectional lens.

Registration is required for the Zoom information: https://bit.ly/SRSAPride 

SRSA would like to host a picnic for all SMH graduate students and trainees to enjoy the beautiful warm weather. We will be providing food and drinks and there will be outdoor activities for everyone to enjoy. Our picnic social will be taking place on June 17, 2022 at the Trinity Bellwoods Park from 5 to 8 pm. Please bring your own towel/blanket to sit on. Register on Eventbrite to reserve your spot: https://bit.ly/SRSAPicnic

LLana James and Ijeoma Nnodim Opara MD, FAAP, FAIM  are the co-chairs of the Canada-US Coalition to End Race Correction. Together, they will outline a process for ending the complex, multi-level, entrenched practice of “race correction” in health care. In particular, they will describe what health care providers and organizations can do to demonstrate they are ready to begin the process of de-adopting race correction across specialties and departments.

While intervention science always requires a thoughtful, systematic approach, this is particularly important when the intervention challenges the status quo of white supremacy. Often, attempts to shift this status quo in health care settings are met with resistance, and the reality of anti-Black racism in health care is “erroneously” framed as a “matter of opinion”, when in fact it is a matter of human rights.

Space is limited, please register here for this virtual talk.

What is race correction? Health care providers often use tests to assess a patient’s health. In many cases, health care providers calculate test results differently for Black patients than they do for everyone else. Overall, race correction means that Black people are diagnosed late, or never diagnosed at all, for serious conditions from heart, kidney and lung diseases to cognitive impairment. It also means that Black people are systematically excluded from timely access to life-saving treatments like organ transplants and other surgeries. Race correction has no scientific basis because “race” is not biological. It is a social construct that is applied differently in different times and in different places. In fact, scientists have shown us that people have more in common genetically across “racial” groups than within them. For more about race correction, please see the primer attached.

Speaker bios:

LLana James’ research illuminates how technology can undermine or bolster human rights in the context of clinical care, rehabilitation science and public health. Her interdisciplinary and applied approach is designed to critically appraise current applications of technology while developing and implementing interventions that seed new, ethical futures. To accomplish this, LLana brings together academic and community scholars across disciplines and sectors to work at the intersections of medicine/clinical care, public health, data, AI, law, and race-ethnicity across multiple axes, e.g., gender, class, able-bodiedness. As a result of her ground-breaking work, she is the inaugural AI, Medicine and Data Justice Post-Doctoral Fellow at Queen’s University.

Ijeoma Nnodim Opara MD, FAAP, FAIM is a double-board certified physician and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Wayne Health. Her mission in life is to dismantle white supremacist delusion by eliminating anti-Black racism in medicine, health care and public health while centering and celebrating Black brilliance, abundance and joy. She is the founding director of the “Health Equity and Justice in Medicine” initiative, co-founding director of Wayne State University Global Health Alliance and co-creator of the Global Urban Health and Equity curriculum for resident training at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine. She is a member of the White House Office of Public Engagement Healthcare Leaders in Minority Health where she advises on anti-racism, health justice, and health equity. Dr. Opara is a speaker, consultant, coach and facilitator and hosts a weekly Twitter Spaces roundtable: Antiracism in Medicine Action Roundtable #AIMART, a transdisciplinary community of Black leadership to eliminate anti-Blackness from medicine, healthcare and public health.