Why Anti-Racist Healthcare Matters
With a focus on Black Health and anti-Black racism in healthcare
About the Webinar
On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2024, the Black Health Education Collaborative held an online session that explored “Why Anti-Racist Healthcare Matters” and celebrated the launch of our Black Health Primer
With a focus on Black Health and anti-Black racism in healthcare, the webinar explored how anti-racist and inclusive practices improved the healthcare system and patient care for all. The Black Health Education Collaborative shared how, through the Black Health Primer, we are working to transform medical and health professional education to improve the health of Black communities across Canada.
Improving Black health is a critical piece of the "ecosystem of change" in healthcare and public health to improve quality care for all patients. During this event, speakers discussed how health systems that support the provision of anti-racist care are more responsive to the realities of communities that experience injustice and oppression and are better positioned to provide high quality care to all.
Through building capacity, individual health practitioners explored how understanding anti-racist and inclusive practices:
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Are key to providing dignified care and benefits all patients and populations - for Black, Indigenous and racially marginalized peoples and beyond
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Make for better healthcare and public health professionals and practitioners overall
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Improve the healthcare and public health systems overall
Speakers
Moderator
Professor Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh (Executive Director, Black Health Education Collaborative & Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto)
Eliminating racial discrimination in health care for a better future
Dr. Onye Nnorom (Co-Founder, Black Health Education Collaborative, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto & Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)
"Building more just worlds for Black life" & Introduction to the Black Health Primer
Dr. OmiSoore Dryden (Co-Founder, Black Health Education Collaborative, James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University & Interim Director, Black Studies Research Institute (in STEMM))
Remarks from
Dr. Patricia Houston (Dean, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)
Dr. David Anderson (Dean of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University)
Panel
Sharon Davis-Murdoch (Founding Member & Co-President, Health Association of African Canadians)
Dr. Marcia Anderson (Vice-Dean Indigenous Health, Social Justice and Anti-Racism, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba)
Hendrick Paquette Ambroise (Québec Regional Director, Black Medical Students Association of Canada & Medical Student at McGill University)
Leila Springer (Founder & Executive Director, The Olive Branch of Hope)
Black Health Primer
Empowering learners with tools and resources to address anti-Black racism and revolutionize the Canadian healthcare system.
The Black Health Primer aims to transform medical and health professional education to improve the lives of Black communities and beyond. It was created in response to gaps in education and training on Black health and anti-Black racism in medicine and public health in Canada. Anchored in critical race theory, the Black Health Primer supports the “unlearning” of anti-Black racism to create responsive health care professionals who are guided by anti-racist practices. The course offers solutions to address health inequities.