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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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Rishika Wadehra

Policy Officer

Rishika holds a Master of Public Policy from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Her policy interests lie in the areas of health and social policy, including child care, education, immigration, and inequality.

Prior to joining Wellesley Institute, she completed a fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and worked as a research assistant at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Global Social Policy where she researched how different regions have responded to the growing demands for care work and its implications on gender inequality, racialization, the labour market, and population health. Through her work, she hopes to explore how public policy can confront growing inequities by considering the role of social determinants of health on the differential experiences of vulnerable populations.

 

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

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.