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Bob Gardner

Driving Health Equity for Kids: From the Earliest Years to Transforming the System

Health inequalities faced by children are storing up a lifetime of problems.  I recently spoke at a conference on Achieving Health Equity For Kids: Whatever It Takes organized by the Hospital for Sick Children.  I set out a roadmap to drive the fundamental changes needed to reduce the health disparities kids face across the province and country.  This action plan for equity included equity-focused targets and planning, building equity into system performance management and service delivery, targeting key access barriers and disadvantaged populations, and cross-sectoral collaborations; all set within a coherent strategic framework and recognizing the big-picture policy changes needed to reduce the pervasive social and economic inequalities that underlie health disparities.

Here is the presentation:Driving Health Equity for Kids: From the Earliest Years to Transforming the System

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Bob Gardner

Bob Gardner

Bob Gardner was the Director of Policy at Wellesley Institute, 2006-2014. His expertise was in health equity policy working with governments, LHINs, service provider networks, and community partners to develop effective strategies and action plans to enhance health equity. He served on many health policy advisory forums, working groups and boards. Bob has a Ph.D. in sociology; has been an academic, public sector executive and consultant; and has been a community activist on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and other issues

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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.