Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
Erica Opoku is an Master’s of Public Health student attending the University of Saskatchewan. She earned her BA from York University in Health and Society and completed a certificate in Food Security from Ryerson University. She is especially interested in understanding how health literacy and work precarity influence health outcomes for Black communities. She is looking forward to understanding how to conduct policy analysis through a health equity lens.
We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.