Hosted by Public Health Ontario
When a public health crisis hits, equity considerations are often deprioritised, with devastating and predictable effects on marginalized populations. But what if we prepared for the unequal effects of a crisis ahead of time? Could we avoid further entrenching health inequities?
This hands-on session provides information and tools to mitigate the unequal and negative effects of pandemics through equity-based pandemic preparedness. Participants will be introduced to the Pandemic Preparedness Playbook: Ensuring Equity-Based Response During Crisis through a short discussion around intersectional analysis, the secondary effects of public health interventions during crisis, and evidence informed equity-based strategies to mitigate these. There will be an opportunity to put intersectional analysis into practice through interactive components.
Intended audience: Public health physicians, MOH/AMOHs, Public health leadership and decision makers, PHU staff with interest in emergency management and equity