On all sides: How race, ethnicity & gender influence health risk for transgender students of color
Adding a transgender status question to your survey? This 2020 report from Advocates for Youth demonstrates why it is important.
Racism/racialization
Shapeshifters, systems thinking and settler colonial logic: Expanding the framework of analysis of Indigenous health equity
The authors of this paper argue that a sole focus on inequities in population health outcomes between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous peoples will not address underlying drivers of power and inequity including settler colonialism and racism.
Implementing anti-racism interventions in healthcare settings: A scoping review
This scoping review from Hassen et al. identifies anti-racism interventions implemented in outpatient healthcare settings.
Preventing a Lockdown Generation: A Plan to Support Canada’s youth in post-pandemic recovery
This report (and accompanying webinar) from YWCA Canada and YMCA Canada explores the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth including those who are Black, Indigenous, and racialized, female and gender diverse , and those living with disabilities.
Psychological Impact of Anti-Asian Stigma Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Research, Practice, and Policy Responses
This article from Misra et al. describes the mental health and community impacts of the rise in anti-Asian stigma and discrimination during COVID-19. Recommended areas of action include research, implementing evidence-based stigma reduction initiatives, and coordinating federal responses to anti-Asian racism including investment in mental health services and community responses.
Calvin Hudson Hwang: Anti-Asian Racism & COVID-19
This podcast episode features a discussion with Calvin Hudson Hwang on his documentary ‘What Flowers They Bloom’ (2021) exploring anti-Asian racism and COVID-19. The importance of addressing disinformation, pre-existing stigma, discrimination and bias toward Asian communities amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed.
Addressing and Inspiring Vaccine Confidence in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article from Marcelin et al. explores COVID-19 inequities and lower vaccine uptake among BIPOC populations. Strategies to build vaccine confidence through practical communication strategies, appropriate messengers and equitable access are explored.
Addressing Inequities in the Era of COVID-19: The Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Critical Race Theory
This commentary from Chandra Ford explores racial health inequities exposed by COVID-19, arguing for the professional responsibility of community health sciences to adopt Public Health Critical Race Praxis in order to address racism as the root cause.
“We were out ahead of public health”: Leading COVID-19 vaccine equity for Black communities across Canada
This report presents the findings from an NCCDH project to identify barriers and promising approaches to COVID-19 vaccine access, uptake and equity for Black communities.
Unequal in the face of the pandemic: racialized populations and COVID-19
This document from the Direction régionale de santé publique de Montréal provides an overview of the distribution of COVID-19 cases among racialized groups in Montreal.