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.
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Children and Schools During COVID-19 and Beyond: Engagement and Connection Through Opportunity
This policy brief from the Royal Society of Canada explores the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health, learning and achievement of children and youth, while also highlighting pandemic recovery lessons for teachers and leaders. Recommendations are made for pandemic recovery in education to support educators, administrators, support staff, school mental health professionals and decision makers as well as parents/guardians.
Webinar: Health equity in student research: Sexualized violence services and pandemic homelessness policy
This event took place in English. Academic research is a well-cited source of evidence to inform public health action to address health equity. But valuable academic work on the social determinants of…
Resources to support teaching social determinants of health in environmental public health curriculum
The NCCDH and the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH) have compiled a collection of resources to support the teaching and learning environments of environmental public health training programs, as well as public health inspectors currently in practice.
Reflections from a health equity educator
Devin Wood is an MSc student at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON, who worked as the NCCDH’s student health equity educator in July and August 2018.