Environmental Justice x Health Part 1: Environmental Racism

Описание: April 2021 - Part I: Environmental Racism

Join us for a discussion about how the legacy of environmental racism threatens the health of Black and Indigenous communities within Canada—and learn how to advocate for justice.

With Dr. Ingrid Waldron and Dr. Ojistoh Horn

Moderated by Dr. Melissa Lem, CAPE President-Elect and Celia Walker, Co-chair of CFMS-HEART

Dr. Ingrid Waldron is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University, the Team Co-Lead of the Improving the Health of People of African Descent Flagship at the Healthy Populations Institute at Dalhousie, founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project), and the co-founder of the national Anti-Environmental Racism Coalition.

The ENRICH Project was launched in 2012 to investigate and document the socio-economic, political, and health effects of environmental racism in African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia, Canada. The ENRICH Project formed the basis to Dr. Waldron’s first book There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which was turned into a 2020 Netflix documentary of the same name and was co-produced by Waldron, actor Elliot Page, Ian Daniel, and Julia Sanderson.

Dr. Ojistoh Kahnawahere Horn is a Mohawk physician and CAPE board member working in Akwesasne, a community of 25,000 people straddling the American-Canadian and Ontario-Quebec borders. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Anatomy and Cell Biology and a Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University, then worked as a researcher for the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project. She interrupted this work to go to medical school at the University of British Columbia, then completed McGill's Family Medicine residency program with a fellowship in Maternal and Child Health. As a traditional-minded woman, mother, family physician, and student of history and politics, she frequently speaks about how the relationship of her people to the land changed due to environmental pollution and resulted in poor health outcomes.

April 11, 2021 at 7pm - 8:30pm

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