CHL5810H Position Description -Emergency Posting
This is a practiced-base course in which the associations between and the impacts of race, ethnicity, and culture in health will be examined from interdisciplinary perspectives in public health research and practice. Students will be introduced to how race, ethnicity, and culture and the interrelationships with the determinants of health influence individual and population health and services. The students will be presented with principles of community-based research; the existence of many worldviews; anti-oppression frameworks; cultural safety, competency, sensitivity, and awareness as practices; and health promotion. We will also be embedding into the lectures intersectionality, critical race theories, and social constructionism.
Instructor: Kazumi Tsuchiya
Qualifications:
A second year Masters of Public Health – Health Promotion or PhD student in the Social & Behavioural Health Sciences. Knowledge of the health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic communities that intersects with the social determinants of health. Experience in conducting community-based participatory research with racialized communities that is culturally appropriate or safe.
Duties:
a) Attend lectures b) Consultations with supervisors c) Preparation of problems solutions d) meets with groups of students about assignments e) Individual student consultation f) Marking and Grading
Relevant Criterion:
The need to acquire experience is the more relevant criterion than previous experience in respect of this posted position.