Equity, Diversity + Inclusion Events

EQUITY, DIVERSITY + INCLUSION events 2024-2025

The EDI events listed on this page are presented in collaboration with the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre (JDHEC). This series of lunch-time talks on various topics will be added to this page as events are confirmed. To see the listing of upcoming events, and archived events, please visit the JDHEC page. 

PAST EVENTS

2024

Ableism + the Tyranny of Autonomy

Speaker: Heidi Janz, PhD
April 25, 2024

Equity, Diversity + Inclusion are Fundamental Research Skills

Speaker: Shannon Ruzycki, MD, MPH, FRCPC
January 18, 2024

2023

Transgender Bioethics + CRISPR Gene Editing

Speaker: Florence Ashley, BCL/JD, LLM (Bioeth), SJD
November 30, 2023

Pandemic Necropolitics: Vulnerability, Resilience + the Crisis of
Marginalization in the Liberal Democratic State

Speaker: Ubaka Ogbogu, LLB, BL, LLM, SJD 
November 02, 2023

Ethics, Autopsy + the Community

Speaker: Khaldoon Aljerian, MD, MHSc, FCAP, FRCPC
October 05, 2023

2022

Advancing Positive Medical Student Academic Learning Environment to Enhance Student Well-Being

Speaker: Jackie Gruber, BA, MSc.
February 17, 2022

Moving toward anti-racism practice in medicine

Speakers: Natasha Johnson, MD and Kassia Johnson, MD
January 20, 2022

2021

THE TIES THAT BIND: Law, Inequality + COVID-19 in the Caring Professions

Speaker: Irehobhude O. Iyioha, PhD
December 9, 2021

How Our Brain Sees Races

Speaker: Kunimasa Suzuki, PhD
November 25, 2021

BE POLITE: Why Bystander Interventions Matter

Speakers: Samina Ali & Debrah Wirtzfeld
October 14, 2021

SCIENTIFIC FRAGILITY + ITS REMEDIES: Embolding Indigenous Science, Technology + Society Research and Training

Speaker: Jessica Kolopenuk
September 23, 2021

Trauma-Informed Care in Medical Education + Clinical Practice: Creating Space for Courageous Conversations

Speaker: Sophia ParksJune 24, 2021

Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Systems

Speaker: Wayne Clark May 27, 2021

(in)Tolerance + Pain: Brown Skin, White Coats + Microaggressions

Speaker: Onyenyechukwu Nnorom
April 15, 2021

Listening to Communities: A Grassroots Approach to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Migrant Communities

Speaker: Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika
February 18, 2021

FIGHTING for a HAND to HOLD: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada

Speakers: Samir Shaheen-Hussain & Teyohá:te BrantJanuary 7, 2021

 

2020

Thoughts + Lessons on Anti-Racist Praxis in Diverse Professions + Organizations

Speaker: Yasmeen Abu-Laban
December 10, 2020

Social Determinants of Health + Racism: Health Disparities of Immigrant Children

Speakers: Dr. Bukola (Oladunni) Salami & Dr. Bonnieca Islam
November 12, 2020 

Indigenization, Reconciliation + Decolonization in Science

Speaker: Kim TallBear
October 8, 2020