January 30 2020

Recorded Reflective Webinar: Introduction to the Social Determinants of Health

Looking for some great introductory material on the social determinants of health? Check out Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi's talk as part of our reflexive webinar series! This series aims to move public health professionals toward a more reflective/reflexive practice. This offering includes questions to consider before watching the video, the 40 minute video itself, as well as questions to reflect on after viewing the content. Finally, we'll reach out in three months to see how these reflections have impacted your practice. The purpose of these exercises is to help you pause, reflect and engage with the content.

We hope that these webinars will encourage you to ask courageous questions, collaborate with others, and explore these areas in more depth.

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Partner Profile

Every month, we highlight one of our PHESC partners. This month, we're pleased to introduce Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle, from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

Where do you live? My primary address is in Mississauga, but I spend a lot of my time travelling around Ontario and Quebec. The picture is from the French River area of central Ontario.

Where do you work? As the Associate Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, I work at 155 College Street, 4th Floor, but I also work a lot on the land like Hart House Farm in Caledon to teach my classes and (re)connect to the land.

What are some current projects that you’re working on? 1) I am working with collaborating organizations (Indigenous & non-Indigenous) and the City of Toronto to erect a wigwam and/or tipi on City lands to provide low-barrier respite for precariously housed and homeless peoples in Toronto. 2) With the PHESC team, Elder Wendy Phillips and the AMP Research Lab (that I run), we are developing foundational online cultural safety courses that will have specific streams for a variety of professions like education, nursing, medicine, justice and court workers, social workers and more. 3) With the AMP Research Lab students and in partnership with Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto, we will be speaking with previously incarcerated Indigenous mothers to determine programs, services and policies are needed to help them re-connect with their families and communities in a good way.

What are you most excited for as a PHESC partner? Through my network of contacts, I am excited to hear that some public health staff have used the webinars created in the Indigenous stream. I am also excited that I will be working with the PHESC team to create more Indigenous content that will be available on the PHESC website over the coming year.

What long-term impact do you hope PHESC will have on the public health workforce in Ontario? Public health professionals have many competing and emerging issues to tackle in their work. I hope that the high quality PHESC content will assist them in seeing these issues through new lenses with new creative solutions that they may not have seen with their previous training.

What’s the last book that you read that you couldn’t put down? As an academic, I don’t get to do a lot of leisure reading. I have just read Rick Riordan’s The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant’s Tomb; yes, I enjoy YA fiction! The other book was Nicole Redvers (2019) The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles; I read this book with great interest as it captures Indigenous ways of knowing and modern science and medicine in ways that I haven’t seen before.

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