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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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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.

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.