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Nanky Rai is a migrant settler from India-occupied Kashmir who is formally trained in public health and practices as a primary care physician in Toronto, on lands that should remain under the full jurisdiction of the Wendat, the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, and the Mississaugas of the Credit nations. She works closely with 2SLGBTQIA+ communities including Black, Indigenous and other racialized queer, trans and gender-nonconforming people, those who use drugs, those who are unhoused and or undocumented, and those living with the infectious complications of structural violence such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. She has been active in anti-colonial and anti-imperialist grassroots movements for migrant and health justice for over 10 years. She is a member of the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society which set up unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Sites in Toronto as a response to the devastating overdose crisis. Her academic work focuses on conducting historical analyses of structural violence embedded within health care and learning from grassroots responses towards health equity. She is passionate about building anti-oppressive medical education and clinical practice, health activism and harm reduction.
Nanky is also the 2SLGBTQIA+ Health Education Theme Lead with the Undergraduate Medical Education program at the University of Toronto.
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