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Aziza Mahamoud

Breast Cancer Screening In Racialized Women

Although there are breast cancer prevention strategies implemented across Canada, inequitable access to screening has barred many women from receiving adequate medical attention. Prevention through screening is the primary form of breast cancer control in Canada, thus inequities across the breast cancer continuum due to racialization severely affects one’s chances of surviving. Breast Cancer Screening in Racialized Women, a new report by Aziza Mahamoud, provides critical insights on the important barriers to screening many racialized and ethnic minority women face. This report addresses existing racial and ethnic inequities in breast cancer detection and diagnosis in order to draw attention to the differential access to screening among social, geographic, demographic and racial groups.

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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.

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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.