Concurrent 5E: Connections to culture, wellness, social justice, hope, and healing: Why framing matters
Tracks
Track 5
| Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
| Discussion Space |
Details
Indigenous Peoples worldwide continue to live within and experience disparate systems. These historical and current interconnected systems of power resulting from colonization continue to influence our bias, perspectives, and how we enter into, and interact with, health supporting structures, spaces, policy and programming. It is vitally important to continue conversations on intention, placement, decolonization, reconciliation, reciprocity, collaboration and reflective engagement. Connections are key to these conversation and purposeful framing of the language around disparity, disease and disruption is needed. We know that rates for hepatitis C infections are higher among Indigenous Peoples in many countries, but in focusing on priority populations have we facilitated a significant bias and an understanding of the connection between colonization, racism, social justice and living experience within the structures leading to higher rates?
Speaker
Dr Kate Dunn
Assistant Professor
York University
Connections to culture, wellness, social justice, hope and healing; Why framing matters
4:00 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Kate Dunn, Mississaugi First Nation, Canada. Combines Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being, Doing and Connecting with Nursing, Public Health and Social Sciences in co-creating culturally-connected HCV solutions.
Troy Combo is a Bundjalung man from Northern NSW Australia. Extensive experience in Aboriginal health through leadership, public-health programming, benchmarking data, systems utilization.
