WBIIH Speaker Series 2021 - Mohawk Elder and Author, Tom Porter
Tuesday, April 6 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Online

Thomas R. Porter (Sakokwenionkwas-“The One Who Wins”) has been the founder, spokesperson and spiritual leader of the Mohawk Community of Kanatsiohareke (Ga na jo ha lay gay) located in the Mohawk Valley near Fonda, New York since 1993. He is a member of the Bear Clan of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne. (Akwesasne, also known as the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, straddles the New York State/Canadian border near Massena, New York.) 

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Webinar: CanPath Portal Overview
Wednesday, April 7 | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM | Online

CanPath is Canada’s largest population health cohort and a national platform for population-level health research. Attend this webinar to learn more about the CanPath Portal, CanPath data and how to access it. CanPath’s Access Officer, Asha Mohamed, will present a tutorial demonstrating how to navigate the CanPath Portal and explore CanPath’s various datasets and variables. The webinar will also highlight how researchers can request access to the data and biosamples.

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Association Between Early Life Exposure to Phthalates and Organophosphate Esters and the Development of Childhood Asthma and Wheeze
Friday, April 9 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Online

Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children. The etiology of childhood asthma is not fully known, although both genetic and environmental factors play a role. Children spend most of their early life indoors, exposed to chemicals used in consumer and building products, which may present a risk to asthma development. This includes exposure to phthalates, used as plasticizers, and organophosphate esters (OPEs), used as flame retardants and plasticizers, although epidemiological studies have not considered early life exposure to these chemicals. Using data from the Canadian CHILD Cohort Study, this presentation will explore the association between early life exposure to phthalates and OPEs, and the development of childhood asthma, as well as the interplay with genetics.

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WBIIH Speaker Series 2021 with Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos
Wednesday, April 14 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Online

This presentation highlights the importance of Indigenous mental health promotion and relevant health communications in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic. While life under the threat of pandemics of various forms are not new to Turtle Island, and the homelands of Indigenous peoples around the world, COVID19 has laid bare the various ongoing colonial inequities in mental health care and services for Indigenous peoples.

This presentation will offer some reflections, experiences and resources in regard to Indigenous mental health promotion, with particular regard for the importance of contextually-informed, culturally-relevant, and structurally-transformative mental health practices and health communications.

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Watch the March 22, 2021, DLSPH special online event Tackling Paediatric Infections in Low-Resource Settings, brought to you by the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, DLSPH and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, at the School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. Watch Dr. Senjuti Saha, Scientist, Child Health Research Foundation, speak on this topic, along with innovations to contribute locally and globally to healthy communities through excellence in interdisciplinary vaccine-preventable disease and immunization research and education.