People and Communities

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Learning Environments and Encounters

  • Anti-Oppressive Teaching
  • Best Practices in Residency Search and Selection (with PGME)
  • Introduction to Critical Pedagogy
  • Power-Informed Supervisory Practice (with Graduate Science Education)
  • Safer Learning Environments
  • Teaching Health with a Structural Lens
  • Teaching with Everyone in Mind

Working Together

  • Bidirectional Mentorship
  • Bringing a Fairness Lens to Academic Initiatives
  • Bringing a Fairness Lens to Committees and Task Forces
  • Community Building: The Series
  • Confronting Incivility
  • Consensus-Based Decision Making (facilitated discussion service)
  • EDI Moments Program
  • Focused Conversations (facilitated discussion service)
  • From Bystander to Upstander
  • Intergenerational Empathy
  • Practical Approaches to Addressing Conflict

Reflective Selves and Systems

  • Introduction to Mindfulness
  • Mitigating Bias (this session is adaptable to context, including research, clinical practice, hiring, or to focus on specific forms of bias)
  • Navigating Power
  • Positionality and Privilege
  • Responding to EDI Backlash
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People and Communities Support

The People and Communities portfolio also provides tailored sessions, one-on-one consults on sticky issues, and instructional design support.

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Resources

Health Policy Discussion Series: Understanding Health Policy and its Effects on Indigenous Health Outcomes

In this two-part series with Dr. Esther Tailfeathers (Assistant Dean – Indigenous Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary) and Dr. Stephanie Montesanti (Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta) explores how historical and contemporary policies continue to shape Indigenous health and healthcare delivery in Canada.

  • Session 1 — This session introduces key concepts, policy legacies, and the division of federal and provincial responsibilities, grounding participants in history, reflection, and practical application.
    Zoom session from February 19, 2026
  • Session 2 — This session moves from theory to practice by tracing the patient journey, highlighting real-world examples of care innovation, and identifying practical steps clinicians and faculty can take to advance equity and reconciliation in healthcare.
    Zoom session from March 2, 2026