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Aziza Mahamoud

Policy Impact Workshops

Wellesley Institute has developed a number of workshops over the years on understanding policy environments and doing effective policy analysis and advocacy.  Several modules were part of our community-based research series; the goal being to enable researchers and community organizations to maximize the policy impact of their research.

Others were developed for particular purposes — such as research conferences  — or audiences — such as health promoters and public health practitioners.  These are the facilitating slides used for the workshops.

Cuexpo workshop on cbr with policy impact may 08

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Workshop on health promotion with policy impact may 08

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Aziza Mahamoud

Aziza Mahamoud

Aziza is a former Research Associate at the Wellesley Institute (WI), leading the urban health systems modeling projects. Prior to joining WI, she was a Research Associate at the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, where she worked with Dr. Osgood and his team in the Computer Science department. Her research there was primarily focused on building population-level dynamic, computational models of tuberculosis transmission and examining interventions. Before her modeling work, Aziza worked with the Saskatoon Health Region's communicable disease division, conducting surveillance studies on antibiotic resistant infections and developing disease prevention and control policies. Aziza holds a Masters in Public Health degree from University of Saskatchewan’s School of Public Health, where she focused on epidemiology and system dynamics, and a B.Sc. in the life sciences from the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include population and public health, syndemics, health disparities, and the application of system dynamics modeling tools to design and evaluate effective population health policies.

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.