Today@Dal

June 20, 2023
1:00 - 2:00 pm, MS Teams

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Co-facilitators: Rachelle McKay, Educational Developer Indigenous Knowledges & Ways of Knowing & Meaghan Ryan, African Nova Scotian & African Descent Nursing Cohort Advisor

Abstract: Past and ongoing structures of various health professions have been produced by and within the white supremacy of colonialism: continued health disparities between racial groups and the underrepresentation of Black & Indigenous health care providers are the result of ongoing systemic and institutional inequities that underpin the contemporary health care system. To address these disparities and ensure all patients will receive quality care, education within the health professions needs to be infused with anti-racism and decolonial practice.

This virtual seminar, co-facilitated by Meaghan Ryan (School of Nursing) and Rachelle McKay (CLT), will critically engage in the topics of whiteness, racism, and colonialism, as they relate the health professions, to strengthen faculty members’ understanding of these topics while considering how course curriculums and approaches to teaching can better promote anti-racist and decolonial practice in the health professions.