- Location
- Zoom
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Event, WIIH Event
- Dates
- March 22, 2021 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Links
Covid-19 Vaccination in Urban and Remote Indigenous Communities
Dr. Suzanne Shoush is a Black/Indigenous Primary care physician currently practicing with St. Michael’s Hospital and the Inner City Health Associates (ICHA). She is the Lead Physician of Nameres, Ode’i min, and Call-Auntie Clinics: providing culture-based community primary care clinics for Indigenous people and their families. She works closely with Seventh Generation Midwives for the Call-Auntie COVID support line. Prior to returning to Toronto she spent 8 years working in rural and remote Ontario, and is now the Indigenous Health Faculty Lead for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is connected to Indigenous communities in both urban and rural settings and working with both ICHA and Nishnaabe Aski Nation in developing COVID crisis responses. She is well versed in needs for culturally appropriate and safe pathways for Indigenous peoples, families and communities to access care. She is currently co-Medical Director of the Auduzhe Mino Nesewinong COVID urban FNIM vaccine clinic, and spent many weeks in Northern Ontario with ORNGE and NAN for the COVID vaccine rollout to remote-fly in communities.