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From Trade Wars to Health Gaps: What Economic Turbulence May Mean for Canada’s Global Health Approach

June 02/2026 — 9:00 to 10:30am

An online panel discussion presented by the 2026 Executive Course on Global Health Diplomacy. With panelists: Armine Yalnizyan, Natasha Crowcroft & Rohinton Medhora Moderated By: Garry Aslanyan Abstract: With U.S. tariffs and other forms of economic warfare disrupting long‑standing trade relations worldwide, what risks and opportunities does this situation create...

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Our Health in a Changing Climate

June 02/2026 — 12:00 to 1:00pm

Join the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care for a lunch time webinar, as part of Toronto Climate Week, about how climate change affects our health and healthcare systems. ​From extreme heat and poor air quality to the spread of diseases and impacts on mental health, climate change already...

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2S/​LGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture Series: It Is Our Promiscuity That Will Save Us: Queer Care, Community-​Building, and the Messiness of Interdependence with Zena Sharman

June 15/2026 — 12:00 to 2:00pm

In 1987, the art historian, critic, and curator Douglas Crimp wrote, “It is our promiscuity that will save us.” Crimp’s challenge to the notion of promiscuity as a destructive force offers us a portal into thinking about technologies and practices of queer care and community-building that can help see us...

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SBHS Seminar (virtual)

May 26/2026 — 1:00 to 2:00pm

Dr. Sherri Dutton, DLSPH Postdoctoral Fellow: “I feel seen”: Developing Cultural Safety Training using the Co-writing Circle method of Collaborative Storytelling Roshaneh F. Jaffer, SBHS PhD Candidate: Narratives from the Cysterhood: Exploring the Gendered Medicalization of Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS/PCOS)

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Managing Heat Risk in Severe Mental Illness

May 20/2026 — 12:00 to 1:30pm

Presented by the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care ... This session will explore ways to identify and prevent heat-related illness for people with severe and persistent mental illness. Join the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) for...

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2S/​LGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture Series: Family and community dynamics around caring for transgender and gender-​diverse youth: findings and implications from a qualitative study in Brazil with Julia Clara de Pontes

May 28/2026 — 12:00 to 1:30pm

Presented by the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub ... The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub lecture series presents: Gender Affirming Care in Brazil with Julia Clara de Pontes (University of São Paulo). Care for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children and adolescents sits at the centre of growing political and epistemological disputes, in contexts marked...

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Modernizing Sex and Gender Survey Measurements: understanding current guidelines for epidemiological survey development and analysis

June 04/2026 — 12:00 to 1:30pm

Presented by the RISE Centre for Queer and Trans Health Research ... Join the RISE Centre for Queer and Trans Health Research, along with the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub, for part one of our two part “Sex and Gender Measurement in Surveys” lecture series. This lecture is open to anyone who...

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2S/​LGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture Series: Community-​Based Research in Quantitative and Mixed Methods with Dr. Trevor Hart

May 21/2026 — 12:00 to 1:30pm

Presented by the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub ... The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub lecture series presents: Community-Based Research in Quantitative and Mixed Methods with Trevor Hart (Toronto Metropolitan University). This presentation will discuss community-engaged and community-based research. Dr. Hart will start by presenting different types of community-engaged research, from minimal engagement to...

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Supporting Newcomers Through Pharmacy: Improving Health System Navigation and Safe, Sustainable Medication Use

May 27/2026 — 12:00 to 1:00pm

Presented by the Network for Improving Health Systems, Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care ... Navigating Canada’s healthcare system can be confusing for newcomers, especially when it comes to accessing care and medications. As a result, many bring medications from their home countries, which may go unreviewed by...

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Digital Storytelling: Exploring the Nexus of 2SLGBTQ+ Aging and Embodied Difference

May 14/2026 — 1:00 to 2:30pm

Presented by the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub ... The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture Series presents: Digital Storytelling with Jami Mcfarland (University of Guelph). Join us for a 90-minute screening and discussion featuring nine powerful digital stories (6-9 minutes each) co-created by 2SLGBTQ+ older adults aging with and into difference(s), including disability,...

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