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Rishika Wadehra

Policy paper: Health care experiences of people with long COVID in the GTA

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There is an urgent need to improve the support of people living with long COVID in the GTA. Initial government action should focus on increasing the capacity of health and social care systems to offer appropriate treatment and supports, ensuring equity in access to treatment and outcomes of treatment.

For our response to be fair, we need to take action on the social determinants that influence the risk of contracting and recovering from long COVID. Wellesley Institute has outlined specific policy recommendations for government covering three areas: knowledge mobilization, improving capacity of primary care and multidisciplinary long COVID health services.

Our policy recommendations are a followup to our recent research report on the same topic.

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Rishika Wadehra

Rishika Wadehra

Rishika holds a Master of Public Policy from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Her policy interests lie in the areas of health and social policy, including child care, education, immigration, and inequality. Prior to joining Wellesley Institute, she completed a fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and worked as a research assistant at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Global Social Policy where she researched how different regions have responded to the growing demands for care work and its implications on gender inequality, racialization, the labour market, and population health. rishika_w

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.