McMaster Public Health Student-led Conference (MPHSLC)

?? We’re Hiring! ?? Looking for passionate and motivated leaders to shape the 2025 McMaster Public Health Student-led Conference (MPHSLC) as Co-Chairs! This is your chance to lead, innovate, and make an impact in public health! ?? Apply now! Deadline: Friday, December 6th at 11:59 PM ?? Link for details: https://lnkd.in/gA9sriqY

Thank you for attending the 2024 MPH Student-Led Conference! We are so grateful for your participation and support. A special thank you to our incredible speakers and workshop facilitators: Keynote Speaker Dr. Thomas Piggott, Practice Speaker Dr. Sonia Anand, Research Speaker Dr. Sujane Kandasamy, PhD, Lived Experience Speaker Lindsay Jennings, and Workshop Facilitators Jared Kunar and Renata Hall, for sharing their knowledge and expertise with us. We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Program Administrator Lynnden Kelly, Program Director Dr. Elizabeth Alvarez, and the MPHSLC Planning Committee for their dedication and effort in organizing this event. Finally, a big THANK YOU to our sponsors—the McMaster Graduate Students Association, Alumni Association McMaster, and the McMaster University Office of the Provost. Your generous contributions made this event possible, empowering students and fostering education in public health. Until next time!

TOMORROW is the 2024 McMaster Public Health Student-Led Conference! ???? Get excited for an inspiring day focused on learning, networking and building bridges to resilience. We can’t wait to see you there! ???Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM ??Venue: McMaster Innovation Park

Only 2 days left until the 2024 McMaster Public Health Student-Led Conference! ???? Get ready for an inspiring day filled with an outstanding lineup of speakers and interactive workshops, all centered on learning, networking, and fostering resilience. We can’t wait to see you there! ??? Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM ?? Venue: McMaster Innovation Park

Only 3 days to go until the 2024 McMaster Public Health Student-Led Conference! ???? With an incredible lineup of speakers and workshop facilitators, it’s going to be an inspiring day focused on learning, networking and building bridges to resilience. See you there! ???Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 9:00-4:00 ??Venue: McMaster Innovation Park

We are so excited to welcome participants to the McMaster Public Health Student-Led Conference on November 26 at McMaster Innovation Park! With an incredible lineup of speakers and workshop facilitators, it’s going to be an inspiring day focused on building bridges to resilience. See you there! ?? ??

A big THANK YOU to our incredible sponsors, the McMaster Graduate Students Association, Alumni Association McMaster and McMaster University Office of the Provost, for supporting the 2024 McMaster Public Health Student-Led Conference! ?? ? Your generous contributions help make this event possible, empowering students and fostering education in public health.

We’re thrilled to introduce workshops and facilitators for the 2024 Master of Public Health Student-Led Conference! ??? Career Navigation Mastery: Succeeding in a Dynamic Job Market facilitated by Jared Kunar We will explore a model for career discovery and discuss strategies to remain adaptable during uncertain and turbulent times in the labour market. Understanding that a career is something you develop over time, not just something you find, we will review ways to explore, reflect, develop, and connect to build your career. Additionally, we will examine the interview process and develop pre-prepared answers to make your next interview experience less stressful and more impactful. EDI in Public Health: Understanding and Countering Systemic Barriers facilitated by Renata Hall In this workshop, we will begin to orient our discussion towards the principles, best practices, and experiences of EDIA and Anti-Oppression specific to engaging in community work and to team dynamics and culture. This workshop is grounded in unpacking the interpersonal and systemic behaviors, attitudes, and exclusionary practices that proliferate harm, inequities, and create barriers to psychologically safe and inclusive spaces for staff and community members in social service structures and organizations. With a focus on unpacking how systemic and interpersonal biases, stereotypes and microaggressions affect a myriad of equity deserving and marginalized groups, it is hoped the audience will develop knowledge on the impact of interpersonal and systemic harms and develop knowledge on countering biases, stereotypes and microaggressions to develop a culture grounded in belonginess and inclusion.

We’re excited to introduce our final speaker for the lived experience sub-theme at the 2024 Master of Public Health Student-Led Conference! ??? Lindsay Jennings is a person who survived incarceration, homelessness,? substance use and intimate partner violence. Lindsay worked frontline for years at organizations such as John Howard Toronto, PASAN, and most recently Rittenhouse: A New Vision. She is also a Research Associate with Carleton University: Tracking IN Justice Project and a Community Investigator at McMaster: Family Department of Medicine. Lindsay is a passionate and professional advocate for the Human and Health Care Rights of currently incarcerated individuals, and over the past years has been dedicated to addressing the preventable deaths in custody, and more ethical and supportive processes for the families and those impacted by death in prisons/jails. ???Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 8:30-4:00 ??Venue: McMaster Innovation Park ??? Ticket: Free! Secure your ticket and register now-link in bio!

We’re thrilled to introduce our next speaker for the practice sub-theme at the 2024 Master of Public Health Student-Led Conference! ??? Dr. Sonia Anand is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at McMaster University, is the Director of the Chanchlani Research Centre focused on Health Equity Research, and is a Senior Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute. Dr. Anand received a Doctor of Medicine from McMaster in 1992, Internal Medicine Training at McMaster and a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1996. After additional clinical training in thrombosis and in vascular medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Anand works as a vascular medicine specialist at Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University. Dr. Anand further received her Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster in 1996 and Ph.D. in Health Research Methodology at McMaster in 2002. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research. Her present research focuses upon the environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin, women and cardiovascular disease. ???Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 8:30-4:00 ??Venue: McMaster Innovation Park ??? Ticket: Free! Secure your ticket and register now-link in bio!