> April 13 lecture by Dr. Nancy Krieger "Bending the Arc to Health Equity: Social Justice and the People's Health,"  
> Univ of Toronto, Health Sciences Building (155 College Street), room 610.
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> April 14 panel: "What Do We Mean By the Social Determinants of Health: Exploring Theoretical and Practical Challenges"
>  Univ of Toronto, 15 Devonshire Place, George Ignatieff Theatre
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> The series is sponsored by the Comparative Program on Health and Society and co-sponsored by the Social and Behavioural Health Sciences Division and the Dean's Office at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.
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> DETAILS:
> April 13

> Bending the Arc to Health Equity: Social Justice and the People's Health
>  
> Speaker: Dr. Nancy Krieger
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> Monday, April 13, 2015
> 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (lecture)
> Reception to follow in the same location
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> Health Sciences Building (155 College Street), room 610
> Please note that this is a new location
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> Register online at: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/18131/
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> ABSTRACT:
> The essence of public health is the prevention of preventable suffering and the creation and promotion of a world in which all can truly thrive. Hence, by definition, public health must be dedicated to the prevention of health inequities, by which I mean unfair, unjust and preventable inequities in rates of disease and death across societal groups. To make my argument, I will first offer a framing of health inequities in their current and historical context, and, drawing on the ecosocial theory of disease distribution, articulate why we would do well to conceptualize health inequities as embodied history. Empirical examples that will be discussed, which link history, place and health inequities, pertain to: the historical contingency of health inequities in the US in relation to premature mortality, non-smoking mortality, and medically preventable mortality; Jim Crow& infant death; abortion & infant death; and the spatial patterning of health inequities.
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BIO:
> Dr. Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist, with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, and the history of public health, combined with over 30 years of activism linking issues involving social justice, science, and health. Informed by an analysis of the history and politics of epidemiology and public health, Dr. Krieger's work addresses three topics: (1) conceptual frameworks to understand, analyze, and improve the people's health, including the eco-social theory of disease distribution she has been developing since 1994 and its focus on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequities; and (3) methodologic research on improving monitoring of health inequities.
> Dr. Nancy Krieger has suggested a list of readings to accompany the lecture. Please find it attached.
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April 14
> 
> What Do We Mean By the Social Determinants of Health: Exploring Theoretical and Practical Challenges
> 
> Tuesday, April 14, 2015
> 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
> 
> George Ignatieff Theatre
> (15 Devonshire Place, Univ of Toronto)
> 
> Register online at:
> http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/17880/
> 
> This panel is part of a two day series at the University exploring the social determinants of health, and brings together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines and sectors to explore key questions and challenges in conceptualizing this concept and in implementing interventions and policies.
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> Speakers:
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> Chair: Lisa Forman (Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto)
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> Participants:
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> Gary Bloch (Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto)
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> Ruby Lam (Manager of Access and Equity, Toronto Public Health)
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> Arjumand Siddiqi (Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto)
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> Anne-Emanuelle Birn (Professor, Critical Development Studies, UTSC and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto)
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> Faraz Vahid Shahidi (CPHS Research Associate, PhD student, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto)
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> We hope you will join us at this event.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> Olga Kesarchuk
> Program Administrator
> Comparative Program on Health and Society
> University of Toronto
> Trinity College Site | 1 Devonshire Place| Room 111 N
> Toronto, ON M5S 3K7
> Telephone: 416 946-0104
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