MIHE & ARMS Co-Hosted Invited Speaker Event: Dr. Ingrid Waldron

Join us for the latest MIHE and ARMS Seminar: "Troubled Waters: The Mental Health Impacts of Environmental Racism".

In her presentation Troubled Waters: The Mental Health Impacts of Environmental Racism, Dr. Ingrid Waldron traces the legacy of environmental racism in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada.

Using case studies on environmental racism in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia, she explores the specific ways in which environmentally hazardous industry and projects have impacted the psychological well-being and mental health of impacted communities. Dr. Waldron also provides an overview of how she has been addressing environmental racism through collaborative, community-based, multi-method, multi-sectoral, and interdisciplinary approaches over the last 10 years. Her presentation concludes with a discussion on some of the “wins” Indigenous and Black communities impacted by environmental racism have experienced over the last several years.

When: Nov. 28, 2022 between 2:30 and 3:30 PM EST
Where: Remote via Zoom

Register today: https://bit.ly/3BMH0gw

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.