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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.

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Health inequities are differences in health outcomes that are avoidable, unfair and systematically related to social inequality and disadvantage. Health equity strategy is designed to reduce or eliminate these socially and institutionally structured health inequalities and differential outcomes.

This area of our work provides strategies, resources, and tools for policy-makers, practitioners, and community advocates for building equity into strategy, planning and practice and making the policy and social changes needed to reduce health disparities.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.