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Health Equity Grand Rounds 2024: Building upstream health and social systems: Lessons from the Upstream Lab and UPLEARN
January 16 @ 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
This event is for FIFSW students only.
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About our featured speaker
Dr. Andrew Pinto is the founder and director of the Upstream Lab (upstreamlab.org), a research team focused on tackling social determinants, population health management, and using data science to enable proactive care. He holds the CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Upstream Prevention. He is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist and family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the Associate Director for Clinical Research at the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network, the lead for clinical research of Ontario’s POPLAR network, and founded the Canadian Primary Care Trials Network. He serves on the Institute Advisory Board of CIHR’s Institute for Population and Public Health, is an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Work and Health, and an honorary senior lecturer at St. Andrews University in Scotland.
About The Health Equity Grand Rounds
The Health Equity Grand Rounds focuses on equity issues related to health and mental health practice. It involves talks by experts focused on key themes in the field. There will be 5 Grand Rounds scheduled in the 2023-2024 academic year. FIFSW students can earn a certificate of completion by attending a minimum of 4 rounds throughout the academic year. For any questions, please contact Peter Sheffield or Dr. Rachelle Ashcroft.