Disrupting Disparities: Leveraging Data, Research, and Leadership to Advance Child Health Equity

Monday, October 21, 2024

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM NDT

Location: Bowring 1-4

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Health and healthcare inequities begin in childhood and persist throughout the lifespan. Together, we can advance child health equity locally, provincially/ territorially, and nationally — especially for children who have been most disadvantaged by, for example, poverty, disability, sex and gender, colonization, and systemic racism. Child health equity will not be achieved overnight. Inequities often intersect, are multi-factorial, and span systems and sectors. There is a role for health system leadership, child health research and data, and advocacy in ensuring equity in children's access to, experiences of, and outcomes related to health and health-promoting care.

Moderator(s)

Ripudaman S. Minhas, MD MPH (he/him/his)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Unity Health Toronto

Panelist(s)

Christine Chambers, PhD RPsych FRSC FCAHS (she/her/hers)

Scientific Director
Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, CIHR
Brent Diverty, MA

Vice President, Data Strategies and Statistics
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI
Kassia Johnson, MD (she/her/hers)

Developmental Pediatrician/Senior Medical Director EDI
McMaster Children’s Hospital