health equity

The Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) Community of Interest invites you to its upcoming webinar on health equity training.

Health equity training is part of a toolbox that organizations can use to support staff to provide more inclusive and equitable services. But how can you incorporate meaningful health equity training into your organization?

Register for this free webinar here.

More information will be available soon.

The CAMH node of CRISM (Canadian Research Institute on Substance Misuse) is conducting a study on the needs and challenges of people who use drugs during COVID-19.

Participation involves a telephone or online interview and is compensated.

Please see the attached flyer for more information or contact the CRISM team at OCRINTProject@camh.ca or toll-free at 1-888-616-0196.

Please distribute this information within your networks! 

I'd like to share a few resources related to the use of demographic data collection to improve health equity.

The first is the Measuring Health Equity website of Sinai Health System, an extensive resource on demographic data collection. Among other things, this site offers a number of tools to aid with demographic data collection.

Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) in Five Steps

Step five: Sharing the results of your HEIA—an important final task

The Black Health Alliance, Health Commons Solutions Lab, and Sinai Health recently published a report online on the Black Experiences in Health Care Symposium 2020.

The Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) at the University of Toronto is hosting a webinar, COVID-19 and Health Equity for Marginalized Populations, on Thursday, April 9.

The Wellesley Institute is hosting their inaugural health equity symposium Advance 2019: Building Healthier Cities. To thank you for being part of Wellesley Institute's community, they are offering a limited number of tickets for you to attend this invite-only event - free of charge.

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) brings fundamental change in our lives, affecting everything from business to government; working life to personal time. As increasingly sophisticated AI systems are created and used more widely, the effects on our health are unclear.