Webinar Series: Engaging with Everyone
This webinar series focused on equity-promoting patient engagement in the health system.
- Topics
- Patient engagement
- Health Equity
- Audience
Healthcare leader
Person with lived/living experience
Point of care provider
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Equitable and inclusive patient engagement helps to avoid tokenism and the exclusion of individuals from underrepresented, under resourced and underserved communities.
Join Healthcare Excellence Canada, the National Health Engagement Network (NHEN) and Equity Mobilizing Partnerships in Community (EMPaCT) at Women’s College Hospital for a webinar series on ‘how-to-do' equity-promoting patient engagement in the health and social system. This three-part webinar series will address the following questions:
What are the key principles of equity-promoting patient engagement?
How can we effectively put these principles into practice?
What strategies can we use to mobilize the power of lived experience to improve health outcomes for all?
Webinar Series
In this first of a three-part webinar series, participants will be introduced to key principles and practical approaches of equity-promoting patient engagement.
What is an equity-oriented approach to patient engagement? How do we co-design sustainable, and safer spaces? How do we build meaningful relationships? In the first of a three-part series, participants will have an opportunity to learn about the key principles of equity-promoting patient engagement.
Since 2020, Equity Mobilizing Partnerships in Community (EMPaCT) has been mobilizing the power of lived experience to ignite a health equity movement, with a vision for a future where health and social care systems are inclusive, just, and shaped by the people whose lives are most impacted.
Fundamentals of Equity-Promoting Patient Engagement
Speakers
Alies Maybee
Linda Monteith Gardiner
Mursal Musawi
Ambreen Sayani
Dean Wardak
Host
Heather Thiessen, Patient Partner & Patient Surveyor, Health Standards Organization and Accreditation Canada
In the second of a three-part webinar series, participants will be introduced to ways to address power imbalances in patient engagement practices to promote health equity. Participants will learn how power imbalances affect patient engagement, explore ways to share power to create safe spaces for meaningful involvement, and develop strategies to include more individuals in decision-making processes that impact their lives.
Since 2020, Equity Mobilizing Partnerships in Community (EMPaCT) at Women’s College Hospital has been mobilizing the power of lived experience to ignite a health equity movement, with a vision for a future where health and social care systems are inclusive, just, and shaped by the people whose lives are most impacted.
Transforming Spaces and Places of Patient Engagement to Promote Health Equity
Speakers
Isra Amsdr
Ryan Hinds
Tara Jeji
Bee Lee Soh
Alies Maybee
Ambreen Sayani
Host
Caroline Wong, Executive Co-Director, Centre of Excellence on Partnership with Patients and the Public
In this final session of a three-part series, participants will be introduced to a community-engaged approach to health equity analysis co-developed by Equity Mobilizing Partnerships in Community (EMPaCT). Panelists will include decision-makers from the health system who have engaged with EMPaCT as they discuss:
How engaging with communities through EMPaCT has transformed policy, practice and research projects.
Lessons learned by co-creating solutions that center the voices of those most impacted by health inequities.
System-level strategies that can mobilize lived experiences to improve health outcomes for all.
Since 2020, EMPaCT has been mobilizing the power of lived experience to ignite a health equity movement, with a vision for a future where health and social care systems are inclusive, just, and shaped by the people whose lives are most impacted.
Mobilizing the Power of Lived Experience to Improve Health Outcomes for All
Speakers
Shari Fraser, Patient Engagement Lead, Novartis Canada
Carolyn Steele Gray, Ph.D., Scientist, Sinai Health, Associate Professor (status), Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Alies Maybee, Co-founder and Co-Chair, Patient Advisors Network
Kaireen Patton, Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada
Ambreen Sayani, M.D., Ph.D., Scientist, Women’s College Hospital, Assistant Professor (status), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Host
Andrew MacLeod, Manager, Stakeholder Engagement, Canadian Blood Services