Anja McLeod is the 2024 winner of the Leon & Rose Zitner Prize, awarded annually by Dal's Healthy Populations Institute to a student who is making outstanding contributions to citizen knowledge and community engagement in health. Anja’s extensive body of work includes community-based research, advocacy, knowledge mobilization activities and resources to address reproductive health equity, primarily among people experiencing incarceration, with a focus on the role that doulas could play in mitigating barriers to care. Her thesis, supervised by Dr. Fiona Martin, is titled Community-based doulas in Nova Scotia: Defining the meaning of care at the intersection of reproductive justice and biomedicine. Anja bridges academia and the non-profit sector, where she works in knowledge translation and mobilization to influence policy and improve access to reproductive health.
Recent News
- MA student Anja McLeod wins Leon & Rose Zitner Prize
- The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology is excited to announce the following graduating student awards for 2024!
- Dr. Deena Abul‑Fottouh Interviewed on CBC Mainstreet NS
- Deepest Condolences on the Passing of Dr. Jerome Harvey Barkow
- Dr. Afua Cooper Panelist on CBC's Black Life
- Social Anthropology MA Sydney Kanigan‑Tailor Awarded the 2023‑24 Governor General’s Medal Award in Humanities and Social Sciences for Most Outstanding Master’s Graduate
- Dr. Karen Foster Receives $1.9M Funding to Support the Common Ground Canada Network
- Congratulations to Dani Salas on his Social Anthropology PhD Defence!