Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited.
There are so many barriers to effective and appropriate immunization services for people experiencing homelessness — poverty, mistrust, unstable housing, and competing mental and physical health concerns are just a few of those challenges. Over the past two years, Toronto’s Inner City Health Associates delivered more than 6,000 COVID vaccines to some of city’s most marginalized residents and continues to deliver first doses to this day.
In the CVPD’s March seminar, Dr. Aaron Orkin and Sara Maria Daou will explore the strengths and challenges of two elements in our immunization strategy: peer health ambassadors and cash incentives.
Speakers:
Dr. Aaron Orkin, Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Dr. Aaron Orkin is the Director of Population Health for Inner City Health Associates Toronto, and practices emergency medicine at St. Joseph's Health Centre. His research focuses on strategies to integrate clinical care and population health, as well as strategies to redistribute health care delivery in our communities and involve the lay public directly in essential health services, especially in low-resource settings and vulnerable populations.
Sara Maria Daou, Health promoter at Inner City Health Associates
Sara Maria Daou is a population health promoter at Population Health Services in Inner City Health Associates. She has utilized her master's in public health by implementing outreach in the shelter sector to empower people with lived experiences of homelessness to take control of their health and make their own decisions. Sara Maria has always been passionate about working with the marginalized population and offering equitable healthcare to all.
About the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, DLSPH:
With leadership housed at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, we are developing an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers, educators and public health advocates. Our vision is to catalyze cutting-edge research and education that maximizes the health benefits of immunization for everyone.
We aim to contribute locally and globally to healthy communities through excellence in interdisciplinary vaccine-preventable disease and immunization research and education.
Questions? Email us at cvpd.dlsph@utoronto.ca
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