Wellesley Institute

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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Liz Janzen

Liz Janzen, Co-Chair

Board Member

Liz Janzen is a former Toronto Public Health Director. Her 30-year-career was built on a strong belief in social justice. She advocated for health equity and community needs both locally ad internationally. Her advocacy, policy development and program management responsibilities included homelessness, mental health promotion, substance misuse prevention,  sexual health promotion and community development. She led the development of the City of Toronto Drug Strategy, was a founding member of the Gerstein Center and the Toronto Woman Abuse Council.

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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.