Join our free online webinar to learn about the Indigenous Public Health (IPH) Program! The IPH Training Institutes isCanada’s only Indigenous Public Health professional development program at UBC’s Faculty of Medicine. The Indigenous Public Health Training Institutes equip Indigenous community members and scholars to address public health issues in Indigenous communities. The Certificate consists of 8 core courses that bring a variety of diverse Indigenous guest lecturers to share their perspectives on current public health issues in their communities.
We would like to reiterate that everyone is welcome to our UBCLC sessions.
Our events aim to embody a safe space for everyone of all different backgrounds to have their opinions and voices equally heard.
Date: Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 (PST)
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:30 am
Where: Free online via Zoom!
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Registration: required to participate; We would strongly recommend signing up for this event if you are interested even if you can’t make the date and time so we can have your information to send you the video link after the webinar session
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About the Presenters:
Rhonda Carriere
Indigenous Public Health Program Manager
Rhonda Carriere is a proud Métis with roots from the Red River on her father’s side, and German settler ancestry on her mother’s side. She currently resides on the traditional and unceded lands (*swiya) of the shíshálh people. Rhonda is returning to the role of Indigenous Public Health Program Manager after holding the Cultural Support Program Coordinator role for the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and First Nations House of Learning at UBC. Her experiences with IRS survivors and intergenerational survivors have strengthened her conviction that a trauma-informed lens is essential in supporting Indigenous health. Culture is healing. Rhonda holds MA and BA degrees in Canadian Literature and a Diploma in Community Economic Development, and brings a long history of working with Indigenous people, organizations and communities, including the Vancouver Sea to Sky Métis Association, to the work of the CEIH.
*swiya: ‘swiya’ is she shashishalhem (shíshálh language) word for ‘world’. The word ‘territory’ does not exist in she shashishalhem, thus elders, knowledge keeps and government request that the word ‘swiya’ is used instead.
Resources
- Applications to the IPH program is about to open, if you are interested in joining our February cohort, please visit our website – IPH Website
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