Podcast episode transcript & companion document: Disrupting for disability without poverty (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 3)
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“As a disabled person, I cannot watch my fellow disabled person beg for somebody to buy them food. There's no place for this kind of poverty in my Canada.” – Rabia Khedr (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 3)
In the second season of the NCCDH’s Mind the Disruption podcast, we explore social movements for social justice: groups of people working together to build collective power for change in service of a healthier, more just world.
As the National Director of Disability Without Poverty, Rabia Khedr is building a vibrant intersectional movement led by people with disabilities to end disability poverty through a new federal Canada Disability Benefit. Explore this episode to learn from Rabia why this benefit is so necessary and what is still needed to deliver meaningful change. Jonathan Heller, a Visiting Scholar at the NCCDH, then shares practical strategies that public health can use to build community power and support movements like Disability Without Poverty.
You can discover this episode by listening to the episode and / or reading this episode companion document, which includes a written transcript of the episode, key quotes, curated related resources and reflection / discussion questions.
Use this resource to
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Use the reflection questions to facilitate discussion about how public health can act and contribute to the movement to end disability poverty
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Learn about pressing health equity and social and structural determinants of health issues and solutions
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Explore embedded related resources from NCCDH and others to support public health action to disrupt the status quo
Related resources :
Disability With Possibility: Shape the CDB final report (Disability Without Poverty, 2024)
Let's Talk: Redistributing power to advance health equity
Building community power for health equity: A curated list
Public Health Speaks: Public health’s role in community organizing
Reference
National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. (2025). Podcast episode transcript & companion document: Disrupting for disability without poverty (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 3). Antigonish, NS: NCCDH, St. Francis Xavier University.
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