Equity & Inclusion Dialogue: Understanding the Determinants of Health for a Healthy and Inclusive Community
Friday, February 26, 2021
9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Webinar *This webinar will not be recorded*
Register here: hrs.humber.ca/register
“How to Guide”: Online registration is here!
Or e-mail to register: zareena.khan@humber.ca
Workshop Objectives:
- To examine your positionality within equity work
- To understand the determinants of health and its importance to anti-oppression (EDI) practice
- To examine how equity can be centered in building healthy and inclusive communities (Access and Equity: Students & Employees, Curriculum and Programs, Campus Culture, and College-Wide Communication and Engagement)
Facilitator: Dr. Roberta Timothy, Director of Health Promotion, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Dr. Roberta K. Timothy is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching Stream, and is the new Director of Health Promotion at Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Specializing in the areas of intersectionality and ethics in health work; health and race; transnational Indigenous health; and anti-oppression/anti-colonial approaches to mental health.
Dr. Timothy has worked for over 30 years in community health working on resisting anti-Black racism and intersectional violence strategies. Dr. Timothy is also co-founder and consultant at Continuing Healing Consultants where she implements and teaches her intersectional mental health model, "Anti-Oppression Psychotherapy".
She is an interdisciplinary scholar, health practitioner, and political scientist who examines global health and ethics from a critical trauma-informed decolonizing framework.
