CERC Health Equity & Community Wellbeing
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CERC Health Equity & Community Wellbeing
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Co-creating inclusive healthcare and wellbeing with communities 🌾
www.torontomu.ca/cerc-health-equity
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📢 PhD students at TMU

💰 $6,000 in two installments is available to help you complete your research advancing health equity & community wellbeing.

Apply now: buff.ly/omJzcOI

#PhDCompletion #ScholarshipOpportunity #HealthEquity #CommunityWellbeing
💬 Your voice matters.

Do you:
✅ Identify as a person with a disability?
✅ Identify as a woman or as gender-diverse?
✅ Live in Canada and are 18+?

📝 Take the survey now: buff.ly/Aa6qqMq

#AccessibleHealthcare #GenderEquity #HealthEquity #CommunityWellbeing
December 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
📣 Call for Papers
Building Inclusive Health Systems to Advance Health Equity across Canada
📅 March 25, 2026 | Toronto Metropolitan University

Grad students across Canada are invited.
🏆 Best Paper Award: $500
⏰ Deadline: Feb 10, 2026
📩 [email protected]

#CallForPapers #HealthEquity
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Masterclass: Novel Sociological Methods & Practices in Disability Communities

📅 Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:30 AM - 11 AM EDT
💻 Location: Online via Zoom
🔗 Register: buff.ly/BnNPTVg

#HealthEquity #MadStudies #InclusiveResearch
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
📢 Share your experience

Do you:
✅ Identify as a person with a disability?
✅ Identify as a woman or as gender-diverse?
✅ Live in Canada and are 18+?

📝 Take our national survey (max 45 minutes): buff.ly/Aa6qqMq

#AccessibleHealthcare #GenderEquity #HealthEquity #CommunityWellbeing
December 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Day 16 of #16DaysOfActivism

As we close this year’s campaign, we honour survivors, recognize the ongoing realities of violence, and continue our commitment to building safer, more inclusive digital and physical spaces for all women and girls.

#16Days #EndGBV #OnlineSafety
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Day 15 | 16 Days of Activism

Digital spaces can connect and support women and girls with disabilities, but without protections, they can also expose them to online violence. Safety isn’t equal for everyone, and change must be supportive and context-specific.

Read more: buff.ly/XgTKU8k
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Digital violence impacts 16–58% of women and girls. Together, we can make the internet safer.

#16DaysOfActivism #EndGenderBasedViolence #DigitalSafety
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Day 13 of the 16 Days of Activism

Today, we spotlight research on the experiences of Indigenous women in Australia living with traumatic brain injury from violence.

Read more here: buff.ly/Zb9NQZa

#16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV #IndigenousRights #HealthEquity
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Day 12 of the 16 Days of Activism

Highlighting our ongoing project on gender-based violence and digital technology, exploring how women with disabilities in South Africa navigate safety, risk, and wellbeing online.

Read more here: buff.ly/dTbRdaZ

#16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DigitalSafety
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Day 11 of the 16 Days of Activism

Today, we highlight the Head Health and Healing project, an ongoing initiative addressing violence-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Read more here: buff.ly/r64tw1h

#16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Our recent op-ed, “We Must Create Safer Online Spaces for Women with Disabilities,” by Eunice Tunggal, Babalwa Tyabashe-Phume, Karen Soldatić, and Lieketseng Ned.

Read here: buff.ly/uv2rYyc

#DigitalInclusion #WomenWithDisabilities #OnlineSafety #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #SafeSpaces
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Day 9 of the 16 Days of Activism

More clips from Bytes and Barriers, the symposium on technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities.

Explore the roadmap here: buff.ly/CbRbbE5

#16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #DigitalSafety #EndGBV
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we’re highlighting the barriers women and gender-diverse people with disabilities face in primary care.

If you're 18+, in Canada, and identify as a woman or gender-diverse person with a disability, please take our survey: buff.ly/QIQnNU9
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Day 8 of the 16 Days of Activism

Today, we highlight an ongoing project at CERC HECW: AI-Powered Technology-Facilitated Violence, an interdisciplinary initiative developing context-aware AI to detect and address online abuse targeting disabled women.

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/Zny0rbw

#16Days
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
📢 Now Launched: Diverse Disability Identities: Gender and Sexuality, Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Indigeneity – A Summary of Key Findings

Read the full report here: buff.ly/CT1CGoU

#DisabilityStudies #Intersectionality #DiverseIdentities #DisabilityResearch #CulturalNavigation
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Day 7 of the 16 Days of Activism

Featuring moments from Bytes and Barriers. Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped create space for awareness, connection, and action.

Explore the roadmap here: buff.ly/CbRbbE5

#16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #DigitalSafety #EndGBV
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Gender-based violence is a reality experienced by one in three women worldwide. A crisis that demands collective action, awareness, and accountability.

Source: UN Women

#16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV #StopGBV #ActNow
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Day 5 of the 16 Days of Activism:

A peer-reviewed article by Michelle S. Fitts, Yasmin Johnson & Karen Soldatic explores how hospital staff support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experiencing traumatic brain injury (TBI) from family violence.

Read the article here: buff.ly/MocyrGH
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Day 4 of the 16 Days of Activism:

The Bytes and Barriers Roadmap centres the experiences of women and girls with disabilities and provides guidance for meaningful change in digital safety.

Discover the full roadmap: buff.ly/CbRbbE5

#16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV #DigitalSafety #TFGBV
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Your path, your voice, your impact.

This survey is part of a national effort to better understand the experiences of equity-deserving youth in Canada. Your perspective helps create meaningful change.

📢 Share your story: buff.ly/GY3Q0xI

#CommunityResearch #YouthLeadership #HealthEquity
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Day 3: #16DaysAgainstGBV

Highlighting an ongoing project: Transnational Policy Responses — learning from the experiences of women and girls with disabilities to support safer, more inclusive policies.

Learn more: buff.ly/5t3yjG6

#16DaysAgainstGBV #EndGBV #DisabilityJustice #EndViolence
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Join us for From Surviving to Thriving: Reimagining Disability Supports in Canada, featuring Dr. Christine Sheppard, Hubert Van Niekerk, and Dr. Nadia Carvalho.

📅 Wednesday, December 3, 2025
⏰ 2:30–4:00 PM EDT
📍 Hybrid — DCC-705, 288 Church St, Toronto & Online

Register here: buff.ly/3UbpOkg
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
On Day 2 of the 16 Days of Activism

Highlighting Bytes and Barriers: a symposium addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities.

Check out the roadmap here: buff.ly/kt9PTbz..

#16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #DigitalSafety
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
On Day 2 of the 16 Days of Activism

Highlighting Bytes and Barriers: a symposium addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities.

Check out the roadmap here: buff.ly/kt9PTbz..

#16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #DigitalSafety
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
💜 The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence begins today, raising awareness about the impact of domestic and gender-based violence.

Purple symbolizes strength, courage, and a shared commitment to safety, dignity, and respect.
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM