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Sylvia Urbanik

Practicum Student
surbanik@wellesleyinstitute.com

Sylvia is currently completing her Masters of Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, specializing in Health Promotion and Public Health Policy. She previously completed her Honours Bachelors of Science at the University of Toronto, in Health & Disease, Immunology, and Sociology. During her undergraduate degree, she conducted research on social inequality, and has previously worked as a policy assistant at the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, which fueled her passion for mental health advocacy. Her research interests include the social determinants of mental health and the role of public health policy in reducing social and health inequalities.

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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.