Equity in focus speaker series: moving forward with equity research in Canada

Equity research in Canada: an overview and some thoughts about ways forward

Presenter: Arjumand Siddiqi

Canada has long been engaged in research on health inequities, and the focus on this area is only growing. In this session, Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi will present a primer on key concepts and issues that have been developed in the scientific literature on health inequities. She will also reflect on the state of Canadian research in this area, with an emphasis on key challenges and opportunities.
0:00 – Introduction
3:34 – Terminology explained
4:48 – Socioeconomic health inequalities
18:39 – Racial health inequalities
44:04 – Q&A

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Arjumand Siddiqi is Professor, Division Head of Epidemiology, and Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She also holds appointments at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Dr. Siddiqi’s research focuses on how policies and other societal conditions explain health inequalities, particularly how they arise, why they persist, and what might change them. She is also working on philosophical implications of work in this area. Dr. Siddiqi received her doctorate from Harvard University.