Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Faculty Member

Sume Ndumbe-​Eyoh

Research Interests

• Health equity
• Social and structural determinants of health
• Black health and wellbeing
• Racism as a determinant of health
• Anti-racist public health practice
• Critical race theory and intersectionality
• Knowledge translation
• Medical and health professional education
• Public policy

Bio

Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh is the Director of the Black Health Education Collaborative (BHEC) and an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Public Health Division at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She is a catalytic leader who mobilizes knowledge and activates networks to advance policy and practice on social and economic issues that impact health and wellbeing.

Sume spent a decade with the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, where she provided leadership to public health practice on health equity, the social determinants of health including racism, in partnership with institutions across Canada. She has served in an advisory capacity for working groups and committees led by numerous national health organizations including the Public Health Agency of Canada, Canadian Institutes for Health Information and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Sume provides strategic consultations to organizations as principal of Another World Lab. She holds a Master of Health Sciences in Health Promotion and Global Health from the University of Toronto.

Hailing from Cameroon, she is grateful to live, work and play in Turtle Island and is committed to  working towards decolonial futures .

Black Health Education Collaborative

The Black Health Education Collaborative is a community of scholars and practitioners committed to improving Black health through education and research. We are working to transform medical and health professional education. Our mission is to address anti-Black racism and the interlocking systems that impact the health and wellbeing of Black communities across Canada. We understand Black health and Black life as intricately connected to the places and spaces in which we live, work, love, play, worship and resist. We draw on long histories of community and academic scholarship and resistance from Black, critical race theory, queer, feminist, anti/decolonial traditions.

Journal Publications

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., Muzumdar, P., Betker, C,. & Oickle, D. (2021). “Back to better”: amplifying health equity, and determinants of health perspectives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Health Promotion. 28(2): 7-16.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2020). What would it take for health promotion to take structural racism seriously? (invited editorial). Global Health Promotion. 27(4): 3-5.

McPherson, C., Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., Betker, C., Oickle, D. & Peroff-Johnson, N. (2016). Swimming Against the Tide: A Canadian Qualitative Study Examining the Implementation of a Province-Wide Public Health Initiative to Address Health Equity. International Journal of Health Equity, 19(15): 129.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., & Mazzucco, A. (2016). Social Media, knowledge translation, and action on the social determinants of health and health equity: A survey of public health practices. International Journal of Public Health. 37(Suppl 2): 249-259.

Davison, C.M., Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., & Clement, C. (2015). Critical examination of knowledge to action models and implications for promoting health equity. International Journal of Health Equity, 14,49.

Selected Grey Literature/Knowledge Translation Reports

Black Health Equity Working Group (Bailey, P., Bernard, C., Bayoumi, A., Boozary, A., Damba, C., Dube, S., Hinds, R.,McKenzie, K., Ndumbe-Eyoh, S.; et al. (2021). Engagement, Governance, Access, Protection. (EGAP). A data governance framework for health data collected from Black communities in Ontario. Black Health Equity Working Group.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2021). “We were out ahead of public health”: Leading COVID-19 vaccine equity for Black Communities across Canada. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., Muzumdar, P., Yanful, B. (2021). Living health equity values in public health organizations: A review and dialogue-based tool. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Castillo, G., Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., Crawshaw J., Smith, M., Trehan, N., Gauvin, F-P., Betker, C., Grimshaw,J.,  Presseau, J. (2021). Factors affecting COVID-19 vaccination in Black communities in Canada: a behavioural analysis. The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and COVID-END: COVID-19 Evidence Network.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2020). Building change collectively to support organizational health equity capacity. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., Yanful, B. (2020). A guide to organizational assessment tools for health equity capacity. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2020). A practice framework for building organizational capacity for health equity. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2020). A model for increasing organizational change capacity for health equity. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Laliberte, N., Fridkin, A., Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2020). Let’s Talk: Whiteness and health equity. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2019). Insights from the NCCDH’s racial equity journey. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2019). On knowledge and racism: How do we know what we know? Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S. (2018). Let’s talk…racism and health equity. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

McPherson, C., Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., Betker, C., Oickle, D., Peroff-Johnston, N. (2016). Learning to work differently: implementing Ontario’s Social Determinants of Health Public Health Nurse Initiative. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Ndumbe-Eyoh, S., Dyck, L., Clement, C. (2016). Common Agenda for Public Health Action on Health Equity. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.