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Delivering Equity in all Child Healthcare Services | Recordings Now Available
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Speaker:
Emily Gruenwoldt, President & CEO, Children’s Healthcare Canada
Opening Session | Child Health Equity: Ensuring that all children thrive
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Description:
Dr. Nicole Catherine will discuss how core principles of child health equity are embedded throughout her work. She will provide four exemplars of her child health equity research: (1) illustrating the unacceptable levels of cumulative disadvantage reported by a cohort of 739 pregnant girls and young women in British Columbia (BC); (2) reporting results from a large, public-health randomized-controlled trial showing the impact of an early prevention program prenatally to early childhood in this cohort; (3) conducting community-based participatory research with equity-deserving mothers on their perceived barriers to programs and services; and (4) informing policymakers on sustained efforts to address barriers to inclusion and engagement for underserved families. Central to Dr. Catherine’s work is a focus on children’s rights and to ensuring that families’ voices are centered and amplified. Her investment in sustained and reciprocal research-policy-practice collaborations have ensured effective uptake of findings into policy and practice—to better support underserved families and ensure that all children thrive.
Speaker:
Dr. Nicole Catherine, Associate Director, Children’s Health Policy Centre
Dr. Nicole Catherine is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Children’s Health Policy Centre in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Catherine also holds the Canada Research Chair in Child Health Equity and Policy, Tier II. Dr. Catherine's research focuses on three areas: (1) generating new evidence to ensure inclusion of children who are experiencing disadvantage in both research and policy making; (2) informing the development and evaluation of interventions that address avoidable early childhood adversities; and (3) informing and supporting policymakers, practitioners, and child-serving organizations in implementing effective programs and options to reduce child health inequities. Dr. Catherine works with senior leaders in the British Columbia government, including the Ministries of Health, Children and Family Development, Mental Health and Addictions, and in regional Health Authorities including Fraser Health, Interior Health, Island Health, and Vancouver Coastal Health, as well as with other child-serving organizations, Indigenous leaders and communities. These partnerships ensure that her research is informed by policy and practice priorities and is embedded within reciprocal policy and practice relationships—also ensuring that results are used to improve conditions and services for children.
Concurrent Sessions
- Concurrent A) Our Kids' Health: Delivering culturally adapted, evidence-based, and accessible health information via social media to improve outcomes in equity-deserving communities
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- Description: In this session, participants will learn how access to culturally relevant, evidence-based, and accessible health information can be leveraged to improve outcomes in families from equity-deserving communities. Participants will learn about the Our Kids’ Health Network, a collection of social media channels that reaches over 815,000 families worldwide. We will share lessons learned from scaling up our model to different communities, and insight from community members about how open access to health information that reflects their community priorities has led to increased empowerment when making healthcare decisions for their families.
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Dr. Ripudaman Singh Minhas, Developmental Pediatrician, Women's and Children's Health Program, Research Lead, Department of Pediatrics, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto
Dr. Ripudaman Singh Minhas is a Developmental Paediatrician with the Women’s and Children’s Health Program at St. Michael’s Hospital and an Associate Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Pediatrics. His research interests are in the developmental behaviour, disability, and rehabilitation of children in urban settings and in newcomer immigrant and refugee families. He is currently working to develop interventions to support the developmental potential of children in the unique context of their social determinants of health and inequity. His team uses Community-Based Participatory Research principles to guide the co-creation and implementation of family-based interventions and the evolution of health systems. Dr. Minhas’s current focus is on supporting parenting in communities experiencing marginalization. This includes the Maple Circle program, which aims to support the parenting journey of families of refugee background, and “Our Kids Health”, a social media-based health literacy program to support families.
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Samantha Gualtieri, Research Program Manager, Our Kids’ Health Network, Department of Pediatrics, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto
Samantha Gualtieri, PhD, is the Research Program Manager at Our Kids' Health. Sam completed her PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Waterloo and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto.
- Concurrent B) Striving for Health Equity for Children with Complex Needs: Balancing the scales
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- Description: Children with complex healthcare needs require access and responsiveness from multiple pediatric services spanning tertiary level care, education, in-home, and community-based services. The lack of continuity and communication across services and sectors takes a psychological toll on caregivers and contributes to persistent health and social inequities. Children with complex needs and their families experience higher rates of mental health issues, financial challenges and poverty, social isolation, and poor health outcomes. Within services, these disparities can be difficult to recognize and can impede a family’s ability to follow through on recommendations and access needed supports.
In this session we will discuss how collaboration requires us to acknowledge that disparities exist. We will hear from families about their experiences and learn strategies being implemented to advance equity through research, novel system-level initiatives community-based programming and family supports.
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Nadine Gall, Manager - PCM, Pediatric Complex Care Program, Clinical Genetics, Neurology, Child Development, and Patient and Family Centered Care Alberta Children’s Hospital
Nadine has worked in Pediatric Complex Care for many years - recently focusing on innovative models of care for children and families with complex care needs. This includes leading a pediatric complex care program at the Alberta Children’s Hospital aimed at improving service delivery and care coordination across the continuum of pediatric services. Nadine trained in epidemiology at the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine. She has worked in areas of addiction and mental health, and has a long-standing interest in clinical ethics, trauma-informed care, and health system innovation.
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Karen Taylor, Program Facilitator, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Care Coordinator, Child Development Center, Alberta Children's Hospital
Karen works as a care coordinator with the Neurodevelopmental Disorder (NDD) Care Coordination project at Alberta Children's Hospital. Karen has over 20 years of nursing experience providing family-centered care to children with complex needs. She has been part of creating positive change through AHS Improvement Way (AIW) projects to approach and solve problems, implement improvements, and sustain change. She has been recognized as a Family Centered Care Champion. Recently, Karen presented her work within complex care at the annual Children’s Healthcare Canada conference. Karen contributes to research projects focused on identifying barriers and bridging the gaps for families with unique healthcare needs.
Karen believes in listening to each family, understanding their unique journey, and meeting them where they are at. She is passionate about partnering with families and service providers to navigate health, education, and social services. These partnerships provide opportunities to coach parents on how to have their voices heard while balancing relationships and advocacy.
Karen’s greatest learning has come from raising her own three children, two of whom are neurodiverse. This lived experience has taught Karen that she was not meant to do this alone. She has discovered that every provider plays an important role in “the team” and shaping the design is up to her.
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Marisa Cowie is a mom of two young boys living in Airdrie, Alberta. Her journey into medical complexity began when her youngest son was born at just 25 weeks gestation. Their family has spent the past few years searching for an overarching genetic diagnosis to explain his evolving picture. Marisa’s boys enjoy playing Lego, going on family adventures, and creating imaginary games together. They are very excited for their upcoming trip to Disneyland this summer!
- Concurrent C) Trailblazing: Building a path towards equitable care for rural children and youth with mental health and substance use concerned using a regional support team
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Description:
Across Canada, access to specialized mental health care for children and youth is limited, particularly in rural communities. In British Columbia, inequitable distribution of specialized service providers and resources prevents children and youth from receiving evidence-based mental health care close to home. The Northern Health regional health authority has six adolescent psychiatry beds at a regional facility to support 32 municipalities and 55 First Nation communities. As a result, children and youth are required to leave their home community for specialized care and often experience lengthy admissions to community hospitals while awaiting transfer.
In efforts to support stabilization, diagnostic clarity, and timely assessments locally, a partnership was cultivated between Northern Health and the Compass Program (Provincial Health Services Authority). Through flexible collaboration, an innovative model of support was developed for northern BC communities.
In this session will introduce the model and present three case studies to demonstrate the teamwork, pathways to care, and collaborative approach to treating children and youth in their home communities. We will share the successes and trials of working together through different perspectives, mandates, and using PDSA cycles. The presentation will also share the success of this partnership with over 100 virtual psychiatric assessments completed and a conservative estimate of $1.5 million of cost savings from treating young people locally over this 2-year relationship.
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Learning Objectives:
1. Understand current state of child and youth mental health care in rural northern BC
2. Introduce an innovative, collaborative pilot project with a shared goal of improving access to quality inpatient mental health care closer to home for children and youth
3. Review 3 case examples with a PDSA lens. Discuss the successes, lessons learned, and what may be necessary for this approach to be translated to other areas.
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Speaker:
Megan Crawford, Regional Lead Child & Youth Health Service Network, Northern Health
Megan brings extensive clinical expertise from acute and community mental health and substance use settings. Beginning her career in child and youth mental health at the Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre in Burnaby, BC, Megan then relocated to Prince George where she has been privileged to provide care to children in Northern BC. Megan joined Northern Health in 2021, taking on a role with the newly developed CYMHSU Regional Support Team. In addition to supporting the development of the Regional Support Team, Megan coordinated virtual psychiatry assessments through a collaborative project with BC Children’s Hospital’s Compass program to increase specialized mental health services to children and youth in rural and remote communities. Now, as the Regional Lead of Child & Youth Health programs, Megan is passionate about continuing to enhance services and ensure equitable and accessible mental health care for all children in Northern Health.
Closing Session | Caring for Refugee Families in Calgary: A Decade of Turbulence and Tenacity
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Description:
Dr. Anna Coakley will share her experience over the past 12 years in meeting the needs of children, youth and their families in a changing context for health equity. Rim Yunus will share the experience of her and her family in meeting their health and mental health needs in Calgary.
Speakers:
Dr. Annalee Coakley, Medical Director, MOSAIC Refugee Clinic
Dr. Annalee Coakley, a Queen’s University medical graduate, has committed her career to providing compassionate care to marginalized populations, particularly refugees in Calgary. As the medical director of the Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic, she advocates locally and internationally for her patients’ rights and access to healthcare. Dr. Coakley's journey began in Ontario and Nova Scotia, where she practiced family medicine in remote communities before settling in Calgary in 2008.
A staunch advocate, Dr. Coakley played a pivotal role in reinstating the Interim Federal Health Program for refugees and spearheaded initiatives to support Syrian refugees in Calgary. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she led efforts to manage outbreaks at the Cargill Meat Packing Plant and advocated for prioritizing vaccination for vulnerable workers. Her leadership resulted in high vaccination rates, notably achieving a 99% uptake in northeast Calgary.
Dr. Coakley's contributions extend beyond clinical practice; she co-chairs the National Newcomer Navigation Network, chairs the North American Refugee Health Conference, and collaborates with the WHO on refugee health initiatives. Recognized for her dedication, she has received prestigious awards including the AMA’s Compassionate Physician Award and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award.
Rim Yunus, a young woman with lived experience as a Syrian refugee who was resettled in Canada in 2016 as a 12-year-old girl.
Closing Remarks
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Speaker:
Paula Robeson, Senior Advisor, Knowledge Mobilization, Children’s Healthcare Canada
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Inclusive Child Health Research for Equitable Outcomes | Recordings Now Available
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Speaker:
Francois Bernier, Project Lead, One Child Every Child;
Professor of Pediatrics, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute;
Medial Geneticist, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Opening Session | Centering Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Infusing Intersectional Theoretical Lens into Child Health Research
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Description:
Inequities exist in child health in Canada, especially among Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Centering equity diversity and inclusion and infusing intersectional theoretical lens into child health research can help tackle and address these inequities. Intersectionality is a theoretical perspective that exposes how diverse identities and social locations, including based on race, gender, class, sexuality etc. intersect to contribute to health and social outcomes. Intersectionality goes beyond single issue framing (e.g. focus only on race or gender) to consider the interlinked influences of diverse identities, which are often situated on power axes. This presentation will discuss the results of a scoping review on how intersectionality has been used in child health research. It will apply these results to research with children while also discussing central tenets of intersectionality including social justice, power, relationality, and complexity. We will further draw on interviews with researchers who have worked with Black communities to illustrate how equity, diversity and inclusion can be integrated into child health research. Drawing on research completed by our team will help to further shed light on key considerations in integrating intersectionality into child health research.
Speaker:
Dr. Oluwabukola (Bukola) Salami, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Black and Racialized Peoples Health, Department of Community Health Sciences,
Scientific Director --- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Co-Facilitator --- One Child Every Child
Professor Bukola Salami currently holds the rank of Full Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Professor Salami’s research program focuses on policies and practices shaping migrant health as well as Black people’s health. She has been involved in over 90 funded studies totalling over $230 million. She founded and leads the African Child and Youth Migration Network, a network of 42 scholars from four continents. She led the establishment of the Institute for Intersectional Studies at the University of Alberta. In 2020, she founded the Black Youth Mentorship and Leadership Program. Her work on Black youth mental health informed the creation of the first mental health clinic for Black Canadians in Western Canada. She has presented her work to policy makers (including twice to the Prime Minister of Canada and once to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health). Her work has contributed to policy change, including that related to Black people’s well-being. She is an Editor for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research and Associate Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). She is an advisory board member of the CIHR Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health and Scientific Advisory Committee on Global Health to the Government of Canada.
Plenary Session | Inclusive research and diverse community engagement: perspectives and considerations
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Description: During this session, we will describe the practical aspects of conducting inclusive research and engaging with diverse communities in the process. We will discuss the challenges and structural barriers, and how these may be managed. Finally, we will share our experiences as researchers in the pan-Canadian POPCORN network.
Speakers:
Ananya Banerjee, Assistant Professor and lead of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Standing Committee (EDIAR-SC) in the School of Population and Global Health, McGill University
Dr. Ananya Tina Banerjee is Assistant Professor and the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism at the School of Population & Global Health, McGill University. Her interdisciplinary epidemiologic and qualitative research embeds a strong emphasis on community-based participatory pedagogy and research, which is grounded in collaboration and partnership with racialized communities including youth funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, Social Science & Humanities Research Council and Public Health Agency of Canada. She developed and offered the first course on race and health in a school of public health in Canada. She is well known for her anti-racism and anti-oppression practice in the learning environment and providing critical mentorship for racialized students in public health programs. She won the 2022 McGill Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine Teaching Innovation Award recognizing her unique pedagogy for inclusive public health education and serves on The Lancet’s International Advisory Board for Racial Inequalities.
Patricia Li, Associate Professor, Pediatrician and Researcher, Montreal Children’s Hospital and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Dr. Patricia Li is co-lead of the EDI+I pillar. Her clinical and research pursuits aim to advance health equity. She is a mid-career clinician-scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, associate professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at McGill U., and general pediatrician at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and CLSC Parc Extension, where her outpatient clinical work focuses on immigrant and refugee populations. She has also recently joined the Northern and Native Child Health Program at the Montreal Children’s Hospital to provide care to Inuit children in Ungava Bay. She is a researcher member of SHERPA, a research institute to advance knowledge and best practices in primary care services in the multi-ethnic context. She is NPA on a CIHR-funded RCT to co-design a patient navigator intervention for migrant children and families and NPA on a CIHR planning grant to explore partnerships with Indigenous Communities for the Canadian Pediatric Inpatient Research Network. She contributes her EDI expertise as co-PI on the CIHR-funded Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT) Canada ($39 million) and co-I on a CIHR team grant (CAPACITY; $2 million) to create a platform for diabetes research across pediatric hospitals in Canada. She leads the EDI+I team activities, including team training focused on EDI learning based on a research team needs, 2 qualitative studies to generate knowledge on lessons learned in working with marginalized communities during the pandemic, exploring partnerships with Indigenous communities. She will work to continue to address the gaps in EDI+I knowledge and practices within the research team through multifaceted learning opportunities, continue to support anti-oppressive and culturally safe research, and continue to develop community partnerships for ongoing pandemic preparedness.
Vivian Qiang, Project Manager, O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health
Vivian Qiang identifies as a racialized settler and second-generation Chinese immigrant. She obtained her Master of Science in Public Health degree at McGill University and currently works as a Project Manager with the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health under Drs. Madhukar Pai and Ananya Banerjee. Previously, Vivian has also worked in health equity policy and intersectional analysis at the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is looking forward to (un)learning alongside attendees and discussing critical perspectives on health research!
Mariane Saroufim, Clinical Research Coordinator, Centre for Health Outcomes Research, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Mariane Saroufim is a BSc. Physiology graduate finishing a Master of Science in Public Health degree at McGill University and a Data Science for Public Health Master degree from the University of Bordeaux. She is a clinical research coordinator working with Dr. Patricia Li and Dr. Ananya Banerjee at the Centre for Health Outcomes Research at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and the McGill School of Population and Global Health. Her research focuses on examining how pediatric research using a community-based participatory research approach was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her other interests include how to conduct quantitative health disparities research and vaccine equity. She also has a background in tuberculosis research, working with Dr. Faiz Ahmad Khan at the RI-MUHC on the influence of profession and gender on TB infections in Pakistan. She loves to read and write (preferably for non-academic reasons) and cook Chinese food.
Shazeen Suleman, Clinical Associate Professor, General Pediatrician and Researcher, Stanford University
Dr. Shazeen Suleman is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics. Prior to joining Stanford, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, where she developed the Compass Clinic which provides trauma-informed care for newcomer and Indigenous children with special healthcare needs. She currently serves as the Co-Lead of Policy Implementation with the Anti-Racism Taskforce on the Canadian Pediatric Society.
Josh Swain, Policy Development Officer (Indigenous health), Toronto Public Health
Josh Swain is a Red River Metis citizen originally from Manitoba, and recent graduate of the Master of Science in Public Health program at McGill University. He currently works in public health, primarily in Indigenous Health. He has worked for Indigenous Health organizations but is currently a Policy Development Officer at Toronto Public Health working on the Indigenous Wellness Strategy for the Urban Indigenous Population of Toronto. Josh enjoys advocacy work, and loves meeting new people.
Closing Session | Unpacking the intersectionality of childhood disability and racial identity/ethnicity in Canada
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Description:
This session will discuss ground-breaking research on the impact of the intersectionality of childhood disability and racial identity/ethnicity on child health and development outcomes across Canada based on the Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth.
Speakers:
Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou, Vice President, Research and Director of the Bloorview Research Institute
Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou is Child Neurologist, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto, and Vice President of Holland Bloorview’s Research Institute. As a Senior Clinician Scientist, she co-leads the Autism Research Centre (ARC) at Holland Bloorview and the University of Toronto. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Translational therapeutics in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and the Dr. Stuart D. Sims Chair in Autism at Holland Bloorview. Dr. Anagnostou has received extensive international funding to understand the underlying biological differences associated with ASD and other neurodevelopmental differences and translate these understandings into potential novel interventions. As well, she has received funding for health system innovation, stakeholder engagement, and exploring the meaning and impact of ASD in marginalized populations. She serves on multiple government committees to improve diagnostic and intervention pathways and on several editorial boards and grant and review panels. Dr. Anagnostou has also been recognized for her contributions to training young clinicians and scientists and for her commitment to women in STEM. She currently represents the region of America-North on the INSAR Global Senior Leaders committee.
Dr. De-Lawrence Lamptey, is the inaugural EMBARK (Empowering Black Academics, Researchers and Knowledge creators) Scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black and Indigenous Scholars at York University. He is a Black scholar with a visible disability. Aside from research, he has previously worked with children with disabilities and their families as a special educator and psychologist in Ghana and served as the disability inclusive development specialist of a Canadian organization focused on international development. Dr. Lamptey’s current research program explores the intersection of racial identity/ethnicity and childhood disability across Canada. He hopes to establish the Race, Ethnicity, And Disability (READ) research lab at Holland Bloorview to lead research and training needed to better inform policy and practice to support children and youth with disabilities from diverse ethnic backgrounds in Canada and internationally.
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Speaker:
Paula Robeson, Senior Advisor, Knowledge Mobilization, Children’s Healthcare Canada
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Evidence-informed Policy: Advancing health equity for all children | March 28, 2024
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Speaker:
Dr. Krista Jangaard, President & CEO, IWK Health Centre
Opening Session | The Canadian Pediatric Society's Antiracism Initiative: From the Prologue to Chapter One
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Session Objectives:
- Describe the origins of the Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS) Antiracism Initiative
- Outline the development of the CPS Antiracism Policy
- Review the process the CPS used to develop our document and organizational policy review tool
- Share future opportunities for the CPS Antiracism Initiative
Speakers:
Dr. Shazeen Suleman, Clinical Associate Professor, General Pediatrician and Researcher, Stanford University
Dr. Shazeen Suleman is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics. Prior to joining Stanford, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, where she developed the Compass Clinic which provides trauma-informed care for newcomer and Indigenous children with special healthcare needs. She currently serves as the Co-Lead of Policy Implementation with the Anti-Racism Taskforce on the Canadian Pediatric Society.
Physician Co-Lead, Canadian Paediatric Society's Antiracism Initiative,Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University, Senior Medical Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at Hamilton Health Sciences
Dr. Kassia Johnson is the originator and Physician Co-Lead for the Canadian Paediatric Society's Antiracism Initiative. She is also an Associate Professor at McMaster, Senior Medical Director - EDI at Hamilton Health Sciences, Co-Chair of Diversity and Inclusion in the Undergraduate Medical Program at McMaster and Director of Antiracism and Inclusion in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster. Clinically, Dr. Johnson works as a Developmental Pediatrician and has a passion for providing care for a large population of neurodiverse children and youth, many who experience racism and oppression in the health and educational institutions.
Concurrent Sessions
- Concurrent A)
- Description:
Jordan’s Principle is a federal government initiative aimed at improving multidimensional health outcomes for Canadian First Nations children through providing more equitable access to services and supports. This session will describe how members of the pediatric healthcare community and indigenous agencies have partnered to optimize service to First Nations children in Manitoba. Successes and challenges will be highlighted.
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Dr. Margo Lane, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Dr. Margo Lane is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health in the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. Her clinical practice in General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine is particularly focused on supporting marginalized and underserved children and youth. She practices at Winnipeg Children’s Hospital and PsycHealth Centre and at the juvenile justice centre. She provides care to children and youth living in northern Manitoba as part of a virtual on-call service and through periodic in-person visits to the fly-in community of God’s Lake Narrows, MB.
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Joni Wilson, Jordan’s Principle & Wellness Services Lead, Southern Chiefs’ Organization Inc.
numerous advisory councils, committees and boards within the disability sector, as well as appointed to represent Manitoba First Nations at national tables for Jordan’s Principle.
- Concurrent B)
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After a year in development, including an extensive community and public engagement process, Nova Scotia released its Health Equity Framework in July 2023. The Framework provides direction for all health system transformation work involving EDIRA (equity, diversity, inclusion, reconciliation, and accessibility) in the province.
This presentation will provide an overview of the Health Equity Framework and its envisioned impact on the healthcare workforce and the health system experience and outcomes of children, families, and communities. This will include an overview of its development and implementation, a breakdown of the main themes and how they link back to information collected through community and public engagement processes, with a particular focus on areas connected to child and family health.
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Eric Hemphill, Director, Strategic Health Partnerships, Department of Health and Wellness, Nova Scotia
Eric is the Director, Strategic Health Partnerships with the Equity and Engagement Team at Nova Scotia's Department of Health and Wellness and has a background in Health Promotion/Public Health. His career has included working is project management, policy, and program evaluation-focused roles across the academic, non-profit, and public sectors, all with a focus on the social and structural determinants of health. Eric is now leading health system-wide teams to implement Nova Scotia’s Health Equity Framework.
- Karen Mutyabule, Health Equity Advisor, Department of Health and Wellness, Nova Scotia
Closing Session | Advancing Healthy Equity Through a Child Policy Lens
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Description:
Children and youth are a large and diverse population in Canada but are easily overlooked in government decision-making, which must balance different voices and interests. Child Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) is a child-sensitive process taking root in federal, provincial, and territorial governments in Canada and other countries that aims to systematically consider how diverse children might be differently affected as governments and other authorities develop laws, policies, services, budgets, regulations, and make other decisions. CRIA can be applied to any policy area to make diverse children visible to decision-makers and help avoid negative impacts while maximizing the positive impacts, equity, and effectiveness of policy decisions. CRIA was used to guide the COVID-19 response in Scotland and has been applied to a wide range of decisions that directly apply to health policies and services for children and other decisions that have health impacts on children. Members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies share the duty to ensure that government proposals have undertaken due regard for children. Child health advocates, policy shapers, and service providers together with diverse children and their families also have important roles to play. This session will increase participants’ knowledge of CRIA and the Child Policy Lens, as well as their potential to advance equitable child health policies, services, and outcomes.
Speaker:
Lisa Wolff, Director, Policy and Research, UNICEF Canada
Lisa Wolff is Director, Policy and Research at UNICEF Canada, with a mission to advance the rights of Canada’s children to develop to their fullest potential, consistent with international human rights standards. Collaborating with government, institutions, civil society, researchers and private sector partners, Lisa works across issues and sectors to advocate for and with children and youth. Lisa is an advisor to many initiatives including the Making the Shift Networks of Centres of Excellence Implementation Management Committee (addressing youth homelessness). Lisa received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Governor-General of Canada in 2012.
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Speaker:
Dr. Krista Jangaard, President & CEO, IWK Health Centre
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