This online course from the Black Health Education Collaborative addresses critical gaps in medical and public health education and training on anti-Black racism. Through eight interactive modules, it supports learners to deepen their understanding of anti-Black racism and identify solutions to address the health inequities experienced by Black people and communities in Canada.
Discover Season 2, Episode 4 “Disrupting for racial and climate justice,” by listening to the episode and/or reading the episode companion document, which includes a written transcript, key quotes, related resources and discussion questions to support reflection, sharing and action.
Discover Season 2, Episode 2 “Disrupting for African Nova Scotian Food Sovereignty,” by listening to the episode and/or reading the episode companion document, which includes a written transcript, key quotes, related resources and discussion questions to support reflection, sharing and action.
Discover Season 2, Episode 1 “Disrupting environmental racism,” by listening to the episode and/or reading the episode companion document, which includes a written transcript, key quotes, related resources and discussion questions to support reflection, sharing and action.
This episode companion document provides a new way to engage with the Mind the Disruption podcast. It includes a written transcript of Season 1, Episode 8 “Bonus episode – Building health equity-focused public health organizations” with key quotes and related resources to prompt further reflection and exploration.
This Healthy Food Policy Project resource describes approaches to advance equity in food systems and concrete strategies to implement them.
This important commentary explores how “health scholars” — those who work in education and research roles within academic institutions — actively maintain health inequities. The author identifies five deeply held beliefs (mental models) that prevent transformative change.
This article employs the metaphor that settler colonialism functions as a net with innumerable “colonial knots” that Indigenous Peoples in Canada are trapped within and that prevent them from being able to exercise self-determination and sovereignty. The authors propose that the work of health leaders to dismantle Indigenous-specific racism, White supremacy and settler colonialism requires dedicated, everyday efforts to “untie colonial knots.”
This episode companion document provides a new way to engage with the Mind the Disruption podcast. It includes a written transcript of Season 1, Episode 3 “Disrupting the status quo in public health” with key quotes and related resources to prompt discussion, reflection and action.
Building community power and privileging community expertise is required to collectively disrupt the status quo. Hogan’s Alley Society in Vancouver, B.C., will share stories of how they engaged with people from diverse Black communities to understand their COVID-19 vaccine intentions, and overcome histories of anti-Black racism. In this conversation, we will reflect on ways to
