Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
Although the City of Toronto 2024 budget takes bold steps toward supporting residents and advancing equity in key areas, there is much more work that needs to be done to build a city that is resilient, mentally healthy and equitable for all.
Wellesley Institute’s Pre-Budget Written Submission Canada has significant inequities in the social determinants of health, including housing, income, education, discrimination and access to health and social care. We also continue to see these inequities played out through the ongoing disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and long COVID on Black, Indigenous and other racialized communities, low-income […]
Continue ReadingFederal budget 2024: COVID highlights need for health equity
December 6, 2022 As a non-profit and non-partisan research institute, Wellesley Institute works on research and policy to improve health and health equity across the Greater Toronto Area. Our mission is to advance population health and reduce health inequities through applied research, effective policy solutions, knowledge mobilization and innovation. This submission provides feedback for the […]
Continue ReadingProposed amendments to the Greenbelt Plan: Consultation submission
The Wellesley Institute works to improve health and health equity in the Greater Toronto Area through research and policy based on the the social determinants of health. We welcome the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s strides towards improving health in our province. Wellesley Institute supports the aims of Patients First. We are especially supportive of the plans to […]
Continue ReadingPatients First Consultation Submission to the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care Download PublicationPatients First Wellesley Institute Submission Feb 2016
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.