Events
Centre for Research on Inner City Health - Keenan Research Centre
Community Discussions on Neighbourhoods and Health
Is your neighbourhood keeping you healthy, or making you sick? You may be surprised.
Where we live impacts how we live. Access to suitable housing, nutritious food, safe recreation and social networks affect our health and our ability to benefit from health care. In cities, these resources are often distributed unequally across communities. The purpose of Let's Get Talking is to educate and promote dialogue about neighbourhoods, inequality and health. Join us as we brainstorm strategies to make our neighbourhoods healthier for everybody.
Everyone is welcome.
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March 22, 2010 |
Listening to Our Elders: Using Oral History to Enhance Child and Family Health Presented by Kim Anderson and Janet Smylie Monday, March 22, 2010
In this talk, Kim Anderson and Janet Smylie will share information about a project they are working on called the Indigenous Knowledge Network for Infant, Child and Family Health. This project involves collecting oral history from elders in Ontario and Saskatchewan about how infants and children were cared for in the past. Janet and Kim will talk about how the project got started, and will share some of what they have learned. This will be followed with a discussion about how traditional/historical knowledge can be applied to child and family programming for our people. Kim Anderson is a Cree/Métis author and educator, and a research associate at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, Toronto. Kim has spent many years writing and lecturing about Native women, and is the author of A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood. Janet Smylie is a Métis family physician and a research scientist at |
Past Discussions
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November 12, 2009 |
Childhood Asthma, Stress and Pollution: Why Where You Live Matters This talk in partnership with South Riverdale Community Health Centre Ketan Shankardass, PhD, Research Fellow, Centre for Research on Inner City Health with South Riverdale Panelists from Community Asthma Project. Presentation Flyer (86 kb pdf file) |
October 14, 2009 |
Dental Care Coverage in Ontario: What’s The Difference Between a Toothache and an Earache? Arguments For A Public Dental Care System Carlos Quinonez, DDS, Associate Researcher, Centre for Research on Inner City Health & Professor of Dentistry, University of Toronto. Presentation Flyer (51 kb pdf file) |
June 11, 2009 |
Diabetes: Where You Live Matters! A community discussion to share ideas and information in the Black Creek Neighbourhood Presenters: Richard H. Glazier, MD, MPH, FCFP and Peter Gozdyra, MA Moderator: Mina Singh, RN, PhD Presentation Flyer (1.1 MB pdf file) |
March 10, 2009 |
Diabetes: Where You Live Matters! A community discussion to share ideas and information in the Lawrence-Heights Neighbourhood Presenters: Marisa Creatore & Peter Gozdyra, CRICH and ICES Presentation Slides (1.7 MB pdf file) |
February 24, 2009 |
Homelessness and Immigration: Toronto's Changing Face Presenters: Stephen Hwang, CRICH & Fariah Chowdry, Council of Agencies Serving South Asians Presentation Flyer (45 KB pdf file) Presentation Notes (501 KB pdf file)
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October 8, 2008 |
Diabetes: Where You Live Matters! A community discussion to share ideas Marisa Creatore & Peter Gozdyra |
September 17, 2008 |
Diabetes: Where You Live Matters! A community discussion to share ideas and information in Ward 28 Marisa Creatore & Peter Gozdyra |
June 16, 2008 |
Diabetes: Where You Live Matters! A community discussion to share ideas and information in Ward 29 Marisa Creatore & Peter Gozdyra
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June 12, 2008 |
Diabetes: Where You Live Matters! What you need to know about diabetes in Toronto neighbourhoods Dr. Rick Glazier
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May 26, 2008 |
Homelessness & Brain Injuries: Cause or Effect? Stephen Hwang & Laura Cowan
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April 24, 2008 |
Improving the Health of Ontario's Women: Where do We Stand? Lessons from the POWER Study. Arlene Bierman & Rosana Pellizzari, MD, Associate Medical Officer of Health, City of Toronto |
March 31, 2008 |
The Diabetes Atlas: What You Need To Know About Diabetes in Your Neighbourhood Marisa Creatore, Peter Gozdyra & Raquel Tortal
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February 25, 2008 |
Women, Weight & Where You Live Flora I. Matheson, PhD, Senior Research Coordinator, CRICH, & Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto Read more about this research:
Jen Plyler, Community Development Worker, The STOP |
November 26, 2007 |
Kokum, What makes a baby well? Using traditional knowledge and western science to support successful indigenous communities Janet Smylie, MD, MPH, Research Scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health |
September 24, 2007 |
Diabetes: Where You Live Matters! What You Need to Know About Diabetes and Toronto Neighbourhoods Rick Glazier, MD, MPH |
August 9, 2007 |
Can Neighbourhoods Affect Child Development & Learning? Jason Ramsay, PhD |
May 28, 2007 |
Neigbhourhoods and Mental Health Patricia O'Campo, PhD |
March 26, 2007 |
Neighbourhoods, Housing, and Health: What Do We Think, What Do We Know? Jim Dunn, PhD |
