About the Speakers:
Anu Radha Verma (she/her) is an associate director of research at the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC). Her work at CBRC has been focused on chronic health, conversion practices, anti-racism, and gender-based violence. Anu Radha has lived and worked in both so-called Canada and India, focuses on social justice issues relating to the environment, health, gender and sexuality, poverty, youth, migration, disability and more. She is a queer, diasporic woman of colour with complex connections to ‘South Asia’, a mad-identified survivor, and navigates chronic fatigue while living on the Treaty and Traditional Territory of the Mississauga’s of the Credit.
Dr. Nathan Lachowsky (he/him/his) is a settler researcher and uninvited guest on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen peoples. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria, Canada, and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. He also serves as Research Director for the non-profit Community-Based Research Centre Society, which promotes the health of people of diverse sexualities and genders through research and intervention development. Championing interdisciplinary and community-based approaches, Dr. Lachowsky has conducted HIV and sexual health research with sexual and gender minoritized men, including Indigenous Two-Spirit and ethnoracial minority men across Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand.
About the Series
The Big IDEAs About Health Data Speaker Series features a variety of experts discussing how data can be used to advance health equity. It aspires to create a space for conversation about whether and how data can be used to advance equity in Canada; specific uses of and guidelines for the use disaggregated data (sex and gender, race and ethnicity, disability, income, housing, language etc.); and advancements in data research practices and methods that embed inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in algorithms, distributed analytics, community involvement and equity assessment tools.
PLEASE NOTE: This presentation is in English. The webinar will be recorded and posted on hdrn.ca.
