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***This webinar is available only in French***

Date and time:

Thursday August 28, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:30pm ET

Webinar description

Establishing a relationship of trust between the person receiving care and the caregiver, particularly in a context of diversity, can be a significant challenge for healthcare professionals. How can we promote inclusive practices in this context? The goal of this webinar is to explore this question by reflecting on the issues related to equity, diversity, and inclusion in the daily practice of healthcare professionals, particularly nurses.

Given the significant health inequalities in Canada, it is important to reflect individually and collectively on how to work with people from historically marginalized groups. This webinar aims to help raise awareness among professionals about health inequalities and provide them with concrete tools to combat their reproduction in the workplace. This awareness involves identifying the factors that facilitate or hinder the adoption of inclusive practices, as well as strategies and tools that can promote inclusive practices in the practice of their profession.

The sharing of experiences and knowledge among participants, which will be linked to more theoretical proposals, will be at the heart of this workshop. We rely on an interactive pedagogical approach, where the active participation of each person will be the preferred means of achieving the learning objectives. Several educational activities will be proposed, including an interactive lecture, small group exercises, and a reflective activity.

Speakers:

Gisèle Mandiangu Ntanda, Ph.D and Jean-Charles St-Louis, Ph.D

Gisèle Mandiangu Ntanda, holder of a doctorate in community health/health promotion and a postdoctoral training certificate in health sciences, is a professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of Quebec in Outaouais. She is interested in the social determinants of health (gender, culture, experience of discrimination or racism, immigration and social relations) and social inequalities in health. Professor Ntanda mobilizes theoretical frameworks (postcolonial theories, intersectionality, otherness, normativity) based on social sciences in her research to conceptualize health and people living with chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes differently. Through her work, she offers, among other things, reflections on how health professionals can better intervene with populations with a colonial past.

Jean-Charles St-Louis is a project manager at the SHERPA University Institute. He is currently responsible for designing, coordinating, and facilitating training activities. He also coordinated a project to consult and document equity, diversity, and inclusion practices in community action in Greater Montreal. Jean-Charles is also the author of several research projects on social inequalities related to immigration and reception policies in the Canadian and Quebec contexts. He has taught sociology and political science at the University of Ottawa and UQAM.