Highest rates SHOULD = highest priority.

I work and study in #bioethics. I'm literate. English is my first language. My internet literacy is beyond fluent. And I CANNOT make sense of how to get a COVID vaccine in Toronto.

Dad’s in a factory, mom’s in food processing. For immigrants like us, Jane and Finch is a dream, but we can't stay safe from COVID. Reva Mai, 18, pens a heartbreaking piece on barriers she faces booking tests, vaccines for her family. #InTheirOwnVoices thestar.com/opinion/contri…

2/7 Notice this, please. Ontario’s hospitals, YOUR hospitals – some of the best in the world – are cracking. #COVID19Ontario covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief/u…

Days before President Joe Biden’s climate summit, it’s revealed that @justintrudeau’s government has been meeting with oil lobbyists. Canada needs to put people before fossil fuels and deliver ambitious climate action. Add your name: leadnow.ca/climate-summit #cdnpoli

Team member Alvi Dandal is leading a study on Asexual Identity Development & SEEKS RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS 👉 bit.ly/3aJufH1 To participate: ✓ 18 + years ✓ identify as asexual ✓ proficiency in reading & writing English ✓ willing to share yr personal life experiences

Really proud of this work with Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project Planned Parenthood Toronto carmen logie 🌈 Sandra Re:searching for 2SLGBTQ+ Health

Here is a way to ask about a person’s cultural background during a medical history (from Diane Longboat)—with a. specific purpose rather than as just data-gathering: “Are there any practices from your culture or background that will help with your healing right now?”

New blogpost by Patricia Landolt about legal status of immigrants. I see this often in my own work, with the distress that immigrant women who do not yet have their PR face, as their work/study permits put them in a place of immense precarity. glomhi.org/--echoes

I really appreciated the opportunity to collaborate with my colleague, djkinitz.bsky.social, on this piece for The Conversation: theconversation.com/pride-month-an…

Let's talk about "Trans Broken Arm Syndrome", a sadly common problem that prevents transgender people from accessing adequate care, and how as healthcare workers we can stop perpetuating it! #TwitteRx #MedTwitter #LGBTQ #trans #pride 1/ 🧵

Please share! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ppl experience disproportionate rates of poverty & labour market inequity. Hoping to inform services & policies that support safe & equitable access to & experiences of work. Platform, gig, sex, contract, temp, low-wage, etc. workers in TO - share your story?

Please share info about our new study with folks in the GTA who might be interested!

Check out our article on #Latinx immigrant #Trans women in Toronto! GloMHI U of T Public Health

Congrats to team member Nicola Gailits (& co-authors!) on their recent pub examining the impact of migration on the health & wellbeing of Latin American Trans women living in Toronto, Canada. Available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… U of T Public Health

PhD student Kristie Serota radically accepts her bouts of sleeplessness through quilting. DLSPH and U of T Kinesiology & Phys Ed Prof. Michael Atkinson suggests that it might be time in #publichealth to revisit the societal structures that induce #sleeplessness instead. buff.ly/3E0j0Xb #UofT

Hey Ferrero North America: there's too much rainforest heartbreak in your chocolate candy for it to make good gifts for Valentine's Day. Break up with Conflict Palm Oil and #keepforestsstanding

Congrats to our team member Nicola Gailits & coauthors on this important contribution!