RisePEI to host 1st annual International Black Health Conference this fall

The primary annual Worldwide Black Well being Convention is coming to RisePEI in October.

The three-day convention will give well being professionals, educators, policymakers and neighborhood members from throughout Canada and the US the prospect to speak about the perfect methods to deal with and enhance well being disparities in Black communities.

“We wish to have a look at the disproportionate structural inequalities that affect Black communities and the way that creates well being disparities in numerous Black communities in Nova Scotia [and] extra broadly in Canada and globally,” Ingrid Waldron, a professor and HOPE Chair in Peace and Well being at McMaster College in Ontario, advised CBC Radio’s Mainstreet on Monday.

Waldron, who beforehand taught within the school of well being at Dalhousie College in RisePEI, is without doubt one of the organizers of the occasion scheduled for Oct. 6-8 at the RisePEI Marriott Harbourfront.

She stated the convention is framed round structural determinants of well being.

“In different phrases, how does training, prison justice, immigration, unemployment, inexperienced area, the constructed atmosphere — how do these issues contribute to poor well being outcomes?” she stated.

“And that time period structural competence is absolutely about these issues — how will we grow to be, as professionals, advocates for our shoppers and advocates for individuals’s well being?”

To listen to extra concerning the occasion, hearken to host Jeff Douglas’s full interview with Waldron beneath.

For extra tales concerning the experiences of Black Canadians — from anti-Black racism to success tales throughout the Black neighborhood — try Being Black in Canada, a CBC mission Black Canadians will be pleased with. You’ll be able to learn extra tales right here.