HI SDOH Listserve Members!
I hope you're doing well! There are a few invitations for you here.
On Thursday Jan 18 at 8am PST, we invite you to a webinar about childbirth stories. Info is below.

For those in the lower mainland of BC Canada, there is wellbeing festival on Sat Jan 20 in the afternoon. It is a knowledge translation event for a paper that i published about the health of Black, Indigenous and Women of Color's health in Canada, titled Flames of Transformation:
Igniting better mental and physical health for racialized and gendered North Americans

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2023.1126934/full
 

It's hosted by Maternal and Infant Health Canada (MIHCan), a global public health collaborative that aims to improve the health of young ones, the environment and those who identify as women through research, education and innovation--boosting international indigenous systems of health promotion and disease prevention. Here's a bit more information about MIHCan: https://linktr.ee/MIHCan

We'd love to see you at this free wellbeing festival. Registration is here:


On Monday Feb 12, we are marking the City of Vancouver's Mayoral Proclamation--Feb 12 is the International Day of Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness with a Facebook Livestream event featuring MIHCan's recent training and research in India by our Doctors of Traditional Medicine, Dr Emilie Salomons and Dr Kate Levett. It promises to be an enriching experience about the transfer of TCM knowledge to midwives, doulas, OB/GYNs and others in India,  so tune in for updates at: https://www.facebook.com/MaternalInfantHealthCan


Finally, MIHCan is starting a book club and invites you to join!
We are pleased to share that this year we are launching a book club. This book club will meet monthly on a virtual platform such as Zoom and will cover topics relevant to MIHCan's work. Please email [log in to unmask] if you are interested in participating and/or with any book suggestions, we will get a book and meeting date organized for discussion. Currently, we are looking at reading the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot to start, particularly because it seems widely accessible online. If you are interested in participating, please indicate in your email if you have read this already.

Warmly
farah

Dr Shroff
Founder, Maternal and Infant Health Canada
and
Darya Consulting
and
Harvard Health Lab, Board Member
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Maternal and Infant Health Canada invites you to a live webinar with Laura Pascoe and Angela Douglas as they speak on the topic "An Anthology of Canadian Birth Stories: Inspiration and Essential Guidance for Parents, Parents-to-be, and Healthcare-providers."
 
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024
Time: 8 AM PST

 

About the Webinar
We are delighted to be joined by Co-editor, Dr. Laura Pascoe and Birth Story Author Angela Douglas for our upcoming webinar on "An Anthology of Canadian Birth Stories: Inspiration and Essential Guidance for Parents, Parents-to-be, and Healthcare-providers."
 
Laura Pascoe (PhD, CD)
Laura Pascoe is a certified birth doula and co-founder of the Doula Support Foundation. In addition to her hands-on birth work, Laura works as an internationally experienced researcher, practitioner, and educator advancing evidence-based solutions to prevent violence and advance gender equality and health for all. Her work primarily focuses on engaging men and boys as co-beneficiaries, stakeholders, and allies in creating a caring, just, equal, and peaceful world for all. She lives in Vermont with her family. 
 
Angela Douglas
Angela Douglas is a marketing communications professional, author, and proud mother. She writes thrillers and non-fiction. This story marked her return to writing after a lengthy absence. Angela’s debut psychological thriller EVERY FALL, published by Rising Action Publishing Collective, comes out in January 2025. Angela lives in the Okanagan with her husband and kids. When she is not working or spending time with family, she hides in her studio with her bulldog, Frankie, writing the next book.
 
Find Angela at https://www.angeladouglas.ca or @anglynndouglas on social media

In this webinar, Laura and Angela will share inspiration and essential guidance for parents, parents-to-be, and healthcare-providers through anthology of Canadian Birth Stories.  Webinar learning objectives:
  1. Learning more about the book "An Anthology of Canadian Birth Stories: Inspiration and Essential Guidance for Parents, Parents-to-be, and Healthcare-providers"
  2. Know why birth stories are so important and a way to learn and understand the power of centering perinatal care around caregivers. 
 
Dr. Laura Pascoe and Angela Douglas will also be on hand to answer your questions throughout the webinar as well as at the end of the webinar. 
To register and participate, kindly click the link below:
 
Warm regards,
 
Tomi

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Tomi R. Yoloye
Webinar Team
Maternal Infant Health Canada (MIH Can)
Sign up for MIHCan Webinars: https://lnkd.in/giWUmQQf
@MIHCan on Facebook & LinkedIn
 
MIH Can Webinars are co-sponsored by the Global Women's Health Network--Alumni of the Harvard Takemi Program in International Health






On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 8:28 AM Caralyn Vossen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Hello, 

 

The NCCDH has an upcoming webinar that may be of interest to you, your colleagues, and your networks. We would appreciate if you could share this information widely within your networks. 

 

Upcoming Webinar: An Introduction to Decent Work as a Social Determinant of Health 

January 31, 2024 | 12 – 1 pm ET | English 

 

Work is a powerful condition of everyday life that can harm or promote the health of workers and their families. Employment conditions and working conditions are two interrelated social determinants of health. Workers who experience structural oppression are disproportionately exposed to the precarious employment and hazardous working conditions that are harmful for physical and mental health. As a rising source of health inequities, precarious employment is a key area for public health action. 

 

Join the NCCDH for this foundational webinar, where the team will introduce core concepts and practical examples to support the public health field to understand and respond to employment and working conditions as key determinants of health and health equity across Canada. 

 

Register here:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SJ26ywxERuCxjJq0Dq-TDQ 

 

 

 

Thank you for your time! 

 

 

Caralyn Vossen (she/elle)  MScPH, BSc

Knowledge Translation Coordinator | coordonnatrice du transfert des connaissances

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health | Centre de collaboration nationale des déterminants de la santé
St. Francis Xavier University | Université St. Francis Xavier


Email | courriel [log in to unmask]
www.nccdh.ca / www.ccnds.ca

 

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Travaille actuellement à Montréal, sur le territoire traditionnel non cédé des Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawks), qui a longtemps servi de lieu de rassemblement et d’échange entre les nations, y compris les Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawks), la Confédération des Haudenosaunee,les Hurons-Wendats, les Abénakis et les Anishinaabes.

 

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