Given the shocking announcement of forced closures of supervised consumption sites & needle and syringe distribution programs in Ontario yesterday, here is a thread of what was announced by Minister Jones, with most details pulled from her remarks at AMO youtube.com/watch?v=OB9gX-…

So happy to share mine and Simon Bacon's publication on the lessons we can learn from behavioural science to improve parenting interventions in Nature Human Behaviour! rdcu.be/dRFz3

“The rest of the country is waking up to what First Nations people have always known” -- Tanya Talaga on her new book, "The Knowing," by Anthony Milton torontolife.com/culture/tanya-… via @TorontoLife Drew Hayden Taylor

Another super recommended book: “Community-Based Participatory Research: Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies.” Working & Healing 🌿☀️💜!

Just want to take the opportunity to thank the The Lancet for profiling my work. Hope to see more Indigenous scholars and their work showcased in the future. Schulich WesternU Western University Western Research Western Epi&Biostats thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Last week, the Ford government announced that they are closing 10 out of 17 existing supervised consumption sites in Ontario. It's hard to express how truly devastating this policy would be. thestar.com/politics/provi…

Today Ananya Tina Banerjee shared the work of physician advocates to our class of first year medical and dental students If you didn’t follow them before definetly do so now: Naheed Dosani SamirS_H Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

What a wonderful week at McGill University to begin the 2024 Fall semester by leading lectures on social justice & health equity to public health, medical and health sciences students. The level of engagement was just a higher level when you start with a quote from Kendrick Lamar. 🎤

Important new PLOS Global Public Health paper by Nicole Redvers Amali Lokugamage & colleagues Epistemicide, health systems, and planetary health: Re-centering Indigenous knowledge systems journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

The survivors of the 1943 #bengalfamine in British India, which took place during WW2, are elderly now, but they never forgot it. Here are some, speaking for the first time. #ThreeMillion bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cy…

This is beyond possible! Sheetal Devi is poetry in motion. Just 17 years old. Born without arms. A true hero. Congrats India 🇮🇳

NEW! Our research in The Bulletin of the World Health Organization on the impacts of COVID-19 on health worker protests, drawing on ACLED data from 159 countries. Kartik Sharma Sorcha A Brophy Mike Law Health worker protests and the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Please be to kind to us who are leading equity efforts. We choose this work because we want to push for structural changes but also to bring solidarity in our respective institutions and more globally. We are trying our best when our world was not designed to be equitable.

People from all walks of life joined doctors in marching and holding demonstrations across Kolkata and throughout Bengal. 🎥Shrabana Chatterjee (Shrabana Chatterjee)

We cannot fail the people of #Sudan. What 🇸🇩 needs now is: •⁠ ⁠Increased international support to address the humanitarian suffering •⁠ ⁠Unfettered, safe access to deliver aid to all Sudanese in need •⁠ ⁠Protection of health workers and facilities •⁠ ⁠and, above

#FreeCongo

daisy “dan goose” tackett I don’t think I am. Disabled people are constantly making changes to our lives as we’re able to given our circumstances and the systems in which we exist, and sometimes things just don’t work. Sure, some people just want to complain, but that doesn’t make society not ableist.

I am trying to reorient my PhD teaching away from “find the gap in the literature” to “find your place in the literature” it’s v challenging and rewarding to undo my own conditioning along the way 😵‍💫

At McGill School of Population and Global Health McGill Global Health Programs McGill Medicine and Health Sciences McGill University, we are truly delighted to announce Mr. Zackie Achmat (Zackie Achmat) as the winner of the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity! Read about Zackie's inspiring work to improve health equity: mcgill.ca/spgh/about-us/…

Echoing the sentiments. 💜💜