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Providing Care in the Context of Systemic Public Health Issues

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Track 2
Thursday, October 14, 2021
11:10 AM - 12:45 PM

Speaker

Ms Judy Chang
Executive Director
International Network Of People Who Use Drugs

Women who use drugs

Biography

Judy Chang Executive Director of the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD). Judy has worked in the HIV and community-based health and development field for thirteen years. She brings 20 years of lived experience as a woman who uses drugs and a client of harm reduction services to her role. Prior to 2015, her primary area of focus was on community health before moving to harm reduction and drug policy advocacy. During the course of her work, she has worked in various contexts, such as India, China and Thailand. Judy holds a Master’s in International Development and a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Contemporary Cultures
Questions & Discussion

Questions & Discussion

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Biography

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Dr Phillip Read
Director
Kirketon Road Centre

Integrating services to address homelessness

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Speaker Presentation

Biography

Phillip is the Director of the Kirketon Road Centre, a primary health care service in Sydney involved in the prevention, treatment and care of communicable diseases among people who use drugs, sex workers and other people with a street-based lifestyle in the Inner city.
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Dr. Thomas Ungar
Psychiatrist-in-chief
St. Michael's Hospital

Structural Drivers of Stigma & Discrimination

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Speaker Presentation

Biography

Dr. Thomas Ungar is Psychiatrist-in-Chief at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto and Associate Professor University of Toronto with clinical and health leadership experience as a family physician, addiction medicine provider and psychiatrist. He is a scholar and thought leader using human centered design methods to improve quality of care addressing Equity and systemic implicit bias of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders.

Chair

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Timothy Broady
Senior Research Fellow
Centre For Social Research In Health, Unsw

Emily Lenton
Research Officer
ARCSHS, La Trobe


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Judy Chang
Executive Director
International Network Of People Who Use Drugs

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Phillip Read
Director
Kirketon Road Centre

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Thomas Ungar
Psychiatrist-in-chief
St. Michael's Hospital

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