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Driving health equity into action: Bob Gardner at Ryerson Conference

Policy makers, community partners, scholars, and students explored the challenges and issues surrounding a more equitable Canada last Saturday. The Wellesley Institute’s Bob Gardner gave a keynote speech arguing that health equity can be realized, and outlined a roadmap with the strategies, tools, policy changes and community mobilization needed to make it happen. We can’t be paralyzed by the depth of health disparities that we face. There is enough evidence and research to make important strides toward health equity today. See below to review Bob Gardner’s slides and stay tuned for more video and audio on health equity from the Wellesley Institute.

Driving Health Equity Into Action

Gardner ryerson feb 2011

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.