MIHE & ARMS Co-Hosted Invited Speaker Event: Dr. Andrea Gonzalez

Join us for the latest MIHE and ARMS Seminar: "Assessing & Addressing Health Equity in Children's Mental Health: Lessons Learned from Implementing Community Parenting Programs".

Presented by Dr. Andrea Gonzalez, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, and co-hosted by MIHE and ARMS, Dr. Gonzalez will highlight key considerations of health equity when implementing new community programs. In particular, this talk will focus on discussions surrounding health equity impact assessments as a tool to use prior to implementing programs, our lessons learned through our community work and building community partnerships, as well as identifying and addressing barriers and facilitators to service access for families with young children.

When: Feb. 27, 2023 between 2:30 and 3:30 PM EST
Where: Remote via Zoom

Register today: http://bit.ly/3JyVMN4

About MIHE

MIHE is a research institute at McMaster University that encourages new inter-disciplinary understandings of the social, economic, cultural, political and bio-physical forces that lead to health inequities.

Our goal is to investigate health inequities, and use research to achieve health equity, take leadership in encouraging evidence-based action on health inequities. MIHE develops a body of expertise in evidence focusing on reducing health inequity interventions, promoting health equity, and stimulate and support knowledge mobilization, student engagement and collaborative partnerships from local to global contexts.

About ARMS

ARMS takes a unique interdisciplinary approach to lead the way for advanced research on mental health from a social science perspective.