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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.

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Lisa Forman

Board Member

Lisa Forman is a South African human rights lawyer and international human rights law scholar whose research explores the contribution of the right to health in international law to remediating global health inequities. Since August 2009, she has been the Lupina assistant professor in global health and human rights at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Director of the Comparative Program on Health and Society (CPHS) at the Munk School of Global Affairs, both at the University of Toronto. Lisa has a BA and LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MA in human rights studies from Columbia University, and a Doctorate in Juridical Studies in international human rights law and health from the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on the strengthening of the concept of the minimum core concept within the international human right to health, and the development of post-2015 rights-based health development goals.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.