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Rachel Kirkland

Practicum Student
rkirkland@wellesleyinstitute.com

Rachel is a Masters of Public Health candidate (2019) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto with a concentration in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences and specializations in public health policy and global health. She has worked for Health Action International researching access to medicines policy in the Pacific Rim and writes for Upstream, a non-profit organization providing evidence-based recommendations regarding the social determinants of health. Rachel is passionate about examining the risk-multiplying effects of declining planetary health on already marginalized populations as part of an equity-focused approach to health promotion. She aims to bring this intersectional, systems-thinking lens to her policy and program work around the social determinants of health.

 

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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.