Ananya Tina Banerjee
@ananya_tb
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Assistant Professor @mcgillu . Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Anti-Racism Lead @McGill_SPGH . Settler (she/her). Chai Master. ☕️ My students are my world. 🌍
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Grateful to
@Harvard
@DukeU
and the
@TheLancet
for giving me the platform to speak the uncomfortable truth & push for justice in higher education with the support of my incredible colleagues
@shashikaLB
@paimadhu
@JoyeuseSenga
& nadia Gonzalez.
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Dear Canadians,
Remember to be grateful for the Astra-Zeneca vaccine you got is made in India. We need your support and not be racially attacked for the B1617 variant. We are experiencing two pandemics and fighting to save our loved ones back home.
Sincerely,
Ananya
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Worst comment I received on a course evalution.
"Dr. Banerjee's course focused too much on equity and minority groups. Public health is more than this."
Sigh...
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I am honoured to share I have accepted to the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Anti-Racism (EDI-AR) Lead for
@McGill_SPGH
@mcgillu
to collectively advance transformative and radical change with students, staff and faculty.
This work will not be easy.
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@paimadhu
Teju Cole notes that global health work in LMIC countries is built on the white saviour industrial complex that involves people in HIC primarily. It's “not about justice.” Rather, “it is about a big emotional experience that validates privilege.”
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Getting my students in
@mcgillu
PPHS 501 Population Health & Epidemiology moving to
#BackstreetBoys
halfway in our lecture to enhance well-being and retention in class.
Try these evidence-based movement breaks funded by
@UofT
with your students!
⬇️
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I am happy to officially share I joined
@mcgillu
@McGill_SPGH
@mcgillEBOH
a few months ago as Assistant Professor to bring a
#healthequity
#antiracist
lens to the
#publichealth
curriculum. Thank you
@UofT_dlsph
students for making me the
#socialjustice
educator I am today.
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I heard it at
@UofT
a lot and now it begins at
@mcgillu
- "Ananya you are my first professor who is a person of colour (POC). It means a lot to me as a POC".
#highereducation
#RepresentationMatters
#DiversityandInclusion
#Equity
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I am honoured and humbled to win the
@McGillMed
Faculty Award for Teaching Innovation at
@mcgillu
. The reason I thrive in academia is because of my
#publichealth
students who inspire me & are my glimmer of hope in a world of inequities. Thank you
@tammyxbui
for the nomination.🙏
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Many South Asian students have reached out wanting to know about my personal journey as a racialized women in promoting South Asian health equity as a researcher, mentor and advocate.
If anyone is interested in a group mentorship opportunity in the coming weeks please DM me!
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Representation matters.
I was brought to
@Harvard
@HarvardSTS
because of this trailblazer Dr. Sheila Jasanoff - one of the first South Asian women to study at Harvard. She saw something in me when visiting
@mcgillu
, enough to bring me to Harvard to speak about my equity work.🙏🏾
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Final Movement Break of the semester for the 2019 CHL5801H Health promotion course
@UofT_dlsph
@UofT
. Our preliminary study findings show regular movement breaks increase social well-being and student engagement in students among students the classroom.
#dancehall
#seanpaul
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So honoured and humbled to join the advisory board for the
@TheLancet
GRacE taskforce to address
#racial
inequalities both in the content they publish and the everyday environment editors operate in.
Thank you
@paimadhu
for nominating me.🙏
#SocialJustice
#healthequity
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Dear Academics,
Please stop doing research "on/for" South Asian communites for the sake of health equity.
Research "with" comunities begins when they are asked by THEM vs. US.
Also, please stop inviting me to join your team so I can help with recruitment.
Sincerely,
Ananya
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Proudly wore South Asian attire as I presented on decolonization in the global health classroom for global health week at
@mcgillu
. I had to think twice because that’s what we are conditioned to do especially as 2nd gen immigrants.
I could feel my grandma smiling from above. 😇
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So tired of South Asians in Canada being OVER-RESEARCHED as a monolith community- particularly by privileged academics who are often non-South Asian in the attempt to pathologize us with a saviour & colonial mindset.
There are many published papers ON us I want retracted. ❌
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The one thing I started doing for all my invited presentations at conferences is writing my name in Bengali as a small step for me to decolonize and honour my ancestral language.
Also, looking forward to giving this talk tomorrow as keynote speaker. :)
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I just received
@SSHRC_CRSH
Connection Grant as PI with
@inkukshuk
as Co-I to host a photo exhibit highlighting the structural determinants of diabetes among South Asian communities from the perspective of youth. Best news for me as a young investigator during this pandemic.
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Hi Everyone. I'm hiring a research assistant at
@mcgillu
to oversee a project examining the best practices of community-led strategies to boost COVID-19 vaccine confidence in Parc-Extension, Quebec.
Please visit and circulate widely:
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Drumroll please🥁
Awarded my 1st
@CIHR_IRSC
Operating Grant as PI to examine impacts of
#COVID
vaccine hesitancy in Parc Ex, Quebec.🥳
Big thanks to
@paimadhu
@HankinsCanfemme
@tammyxbui
@nehalislam
@ChirgwinJuan
@sashamd
et al. for making this real! 🙌
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This is how the Heath Promotion students kick off the first week of classes with me at
@UofT_dlsph
.
#movementbreaks
#studentengagement
#HealthandWellbeing
#dance
#UofT
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I am rejoicing in tears my 70 and 88-year old aunts in India survived COVID. The severity of the disease was much less than expected because they had their first dose of the vaccine. This is why local and global
#VaccineEquity
is critical to save lives.
#TRIPSwaiver
#sharedoses
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Love how our new
@mcgillu
Principal Dr. Saini’s wife wore a sari. I feel so seen as a South Asian academic. 😭
The question should I wear a sari when I attend convocation tomorrow to cheer my students on?
So wonderful to have my family and friends join us for Installation today, including my wife Rani!
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There is well-documented systemic
#racism
across Canadian universities pre and post covid. Our work calls for the need for student focused race-based data collection in relation to health and social outcomes but most important push for concrete action on institutional
#racism
.
Racialized students twice as likely to report poor health than white students, new U of T survey finds
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This is exactly what our
@TheLancet
piece calls out on how global health is an industry of the white saviour complex. 👇
#SaviorComplexHBO
better bring justice to all the families who lost their children from being "saved" rooted in colonial legacies.
Are good intentions good enough?
#SaviorComplexHBO
, a 3-part
@HBO
Original Documentary that examines the story of a young missionary, what it means to help, and the intersection of religion, race, and power, premieres September 26 on
@StreamOnMax
.
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People keep asking what fueled my tweet last night. It was this cover page of the
@JdeMontreal
released yesterday that speaks explicit racism against us.🇮🇳
Thank you to the thousands of Canadians for supporting our communities of the Indian diaspora during this difficult time.🇨🇦
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I still remember debating whether to accept admission to a PhD program at
@McMasterU
I was content with a masters degree and working as a kinesiologist with
@WCHospital
My immigrant Dad said “Be the first to have a PhD across generations in our family”.
The rest is herstory.
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Had the honour to speak about the work of
@IndiaCOVIDSOS
as a volunteer with
@NatashaFatah
. The 24/7 efforts of 500+ volunteers across the🇺🇸 🇮🇳🇨🇦🇬🇧 would not be possible without the leadership of advocates from our Indian diaspora
@paimadhu
@KrutikaKuppalli
and
@ManuPra18599785
.
The Covid crisis in India sparked action by a group of experts and volunteers who founded
@IndiaCOVIDSOS
Together they create at-home care tips in 12 different languages
Dr. Ananya Banerjee
@ananya_tb
is a volunteer with India COVID SOS
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Beyond honoured to share my publication in
@TheLancet
with
@AmyTanMD
dedicated to our ancestors who relentlessly fought for racial justice. As settler women of Chinese & South Asian descent, we share our stories in upholding white supremacy in medicine.
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Why do we need extended conversations about this? Please send the extra life saving shots to India and Nepal.
#cdnpoli
#VaccineEquity
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It’s my birthday today and the best part of this day every year is to wake up to sweet aroma of my mom putting her labour of love to make this traditional Bengali Chaler Gurur Payesh. A delicacy rice-based pudding with date jaggery we eat to celebrate life and us.
#bongstories
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Dear
@JustinTrudeau
and
@mary_ng
,
This is your moment to join forces with the
#UnitedStates
by supporting the
#TRIPSwaiver
to ensure
#VaccineEquity
and end the global crisis pandemic.
Sincerely,
@ananya_tb
@paimadhu
@veena_sriram
@srinmurthy99
@zchagla
@HIVDocSK
et al.
🇨🇦🇮🇳🇺🇸
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Question: What is the term for Canada to impose a travel ban to include Nigeria, Malawi and Egypt in addition to South African countries but not to European countries where there are a higher number of confirmed cases of
#Omicron
?
Answer: RACISM ✅
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A heartfelt thanks to Dr.
@paimadhu
for leading an engaging lecture on global vaccine equity to our 1st year MScPH students at
@McGillEBOH
@mcgillu
and empowering them to become public health advocates.
"Global vaccine equity demands justice — not charity"
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Best samosa I’ve had in Montreal is in Parc Extension - Malhi Sweets. Call ahead to order for hot and freshness. To welcome me for the 1st time they gave free extra samosas & I offered to mentor one of the staff’s daughter who is doing her PhD
@mcgillu
This is our community! ♥️
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My research team
@SAHRHOnline
representing our work on South Asian health equity in Canada at
@mcgillu
@McGillGHP
Global Health Night 2023.
The feeling of community was empowering to wear our cultural roots in style and making a statement we lead our research.
#Decolnizng
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I teach Principles of Public Health Practice
@mcgillu
that has a strong
#healthequity
lens. It meant a lot to me when students stayed on Zoom after class wanting to talk more about
#socialjustice
whether it's advocating for
#safeinjectionsites
or
#PaidSickDaysNow
. There is hope.
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South Asian public health professionals in the GTA have launched the South Asian Allyship Network. Follow us on instagram
@southasianallyship
. We are hosting the 1st intergenerational webinar on Saturday with Drs. Arun & Alok Mukherjee & Seema Hari. Please join with your parents!
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My mom watched this and called me saying how proud she was of me and touched for acknowledging her and my dad and our communities who struggle with diabetes. 😭
#immigrantstories
#HealthEquity
#Insulin100
Thanks to
@ananya_tb
for sharing her reasons why the discovery of
#insulin
matters to her and her work! Dr. Banerjee's work on diabetes in the South Asian community is making an incredible difference in the area of type 2 diabetes risk.
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Ever since I joined
@mcgillu
some of my South Asian students greet me as Ananya ji or Professor ji. ♥️
Why?
In many South Asian cultures, we sometimes add the word “ji” at the end of someone’s name especially if they are older to convey respect.
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Chatted with one of my fav
@cbcradio
hosts
@mattgallowaycbc
on
@TheCurrentCBC
this morning. I was fighting my tears throughout the interview about the crisis in India. Thank you Matt for being supportive and empathetic to Canadians of Indian descent during our conversation.
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Olivia Chow is the first woman of colour to be Elected Mayor in Toronto.
She has a story many of us share as being a child of immigrant parents.
What a historic moment and she brings hope for Toronto and many of us for generations to fight for equity.
So happy! 😇🎉
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In solidarity with my Muslim friends, students and colleagues as they battle
#Islamophobia
.
What we witnessed today is systemic violence that was intentional and destroyed innocent lives who call this country their home.
Racism is so real in Canada.
Devasted beyond words.
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A big congrats to
@paimadhu
who is a phenomenal scientist, advocate, educator and mentor to so many of us.
He has a whole global squad cheering him right now! 👏🏽
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Our first pilot study demonstrating a profound need for ongoing anti-oppression training among future
#publichealth
students and professionals. So grateful to have supervised
@UofT
@UofT_dlsph
recent graduates working in solidarity.
#SocialJustice
-
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I'm so honoured to be one the youngest members of the IAB for
@TheLancet
and be part of this collective group of scholars and advocates fighting for racial equity in research and practice.
Helping us shape this theme issue is an international advisory board (IAB) of leading scholars and advocates for racial and ethnic equity.
Meet the IAB for GRacE, our Group for Racial Equality: (3/3)
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Surprised my
@mcgillu
students today in class with fresh and hot samosas from Ram Sweet Shop in Montreal given the stressful time of the end of the semester.
Best part was when one student took the Auntie role in disrupting the tamarind sauce to everyone to avoid a mess. 😇❤️
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Late night working with a colleague on a grant proposal at my place. Felt like we were back at our university days working on class projects.
Also bonded intellectually and socially over chai, samosas, tamarind sauce and bourbon cookies. ❤️
Academics need to work like this! 👇🏾
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Teaching an epidemiology and population health undergraduate course for the 1st time this Fall at
@mcgillu
.
Committed to thread equity, anti-racism and social justice in a course that is often 100% eurocentric.
Any recommendations on readings, podcasts, videos etc.
Thank u!🙏
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At the drug store in Montreal...
Cosmetician: You have such beautiful skin tone.
Me: Um. Thanks?
Cosmetician: Where are you from?
Me: Ontario
Costmetician: Born?
Me: Yes.
Costmetician: ahh. Your parents?
Me: India
Cosmetician: I love India. My favourite city is Sri Lanka.
Me:🙄
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I have received endless gratitude cards from students that are keepsakes for me. When I question my worth in academia I read them to remind me I am here for them and to break down systemic barriers for the next generation.
This is one of my most priceless cards. ♥️
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A love story to all women of colour academics…
“I am my mother's dreams fulfilled, my grandmother's vengeance realized, patriarchy's worst nightmare, a testament to the power of anticolonial resistance…” - Lorgia Garcia Peña
Thank you
@paimadhu
for this gift of endless read.
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My latest
@TorontoStar
with my
#socialjustice
driven colleagues
@iPreetBrar
@SabiVM
as we talk about the stark, staggering inequities faced by the our communities during
#covid19
in
@regionofpeel
that is largely dismissed among the cultural stereotypes.
#EnoughIsEnough
Brampton's COVID-19 cases put blame on South Asians for cultural celebrations like Diwali. In fact, it's much more than that. Precarious employment, shared housing, less healthcare resources,
@SabiVM
., Dr.
@iPreetBrar
, and Dr.
@Ananya_tb
write.
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Diwali is a symbol of hope for humankind. ✨
My students are my light & in for a treat during my
@mcgillu
Health Promotion course as I celebrate with them over almond covered coconut sweet rolls infused with dark chocolate (my twist) I made using my Didu’s recipe.
#HappyDiwali
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Grateful to publish with
@paimadhu
in
@sciencepolicy
to push Canada from being the world’s leading vaccine hoarding nation to being a leader in global vaccine equity to end this pandemic once and for all.🇨🇦🌎💉
#COVID19
#vaccination
#TRIPS
#cdnpoli
Canada still has time to be a leader to advance global vaccine equity
We must support TRIPS waiver & deliver rapidly on our Covax pledges!
@ananya_tb
& I write in
@sciencepolicy
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Having a lecture hall filled with vibrant
@mcgillu
@McGillEBOH
public health students and having such great in-depth conversations about equity is a feeling I missed immensely for the last two years.
Great to back on campus and restore my true love for teaching. ♥️
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When I step out of academic life I cook traditional South Asian foods I grew up with and passed down from multi-generations. It is a true form of soulful therapy for me especially when I burnout. I feel my grandma when I am grinding spices, kneading dough or making fresh paneer.
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Honoured to join the
@PLOSGPH
Editorial Board, a new
#OpenScience
journal for global & public health research that broadens the range of global perspectives to promote equity, inclusion and decolonization. Thank you
@CKyobutungi
&
@paimadhu
for bringing us together in solidarity.
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Lighting diyas this evening for us means new dreams, fresh hopes, undiscovered avenues and different perspectives.
Happy Diwali and Kali Pujo to all celebrating. 🙏🏾
#Diwali
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As someone who teaches a course on race and racism
@UofT_dlsph
@UofT
I can't stress how important it is to have such courses mandatory for all undergraduate and graduate students in higher education. Please sign!
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Doing Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism work as a core part of your role and identity at institutions is not glamorous.
It’s a messy, complicated and political fight to change systems and people operating under white supremacy.
Yet we will never give up and rise.
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Pleased to share our latest commentary, published with
@SpringerNature
in
@CJPH_RCSP
led by a team of community, students and academics to build a culture of accountability for all forms of racism in Schools of Public Health across Canada.
To read:
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I just realized after updating my CV that all the Masters and Doctoral thesis committees I sit on is for only students of colour.
Can't help question why I have not been invited to a white student's thesis committee based on my methdodological and health promotion expertise?
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Very 1st class for me
@mcgillu
in person teaching the race and health course in Purvis Hall that was built in the 1800’s. Felt awesome to interact with our
#publichealth
students and restore the meaningful engagement that was missing in the last 1.5 years. ♥️
#AcademicTwitter
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I met my favourite artist of all time
@ShankarAnoushka
who is the daughter of Legendary Ravi Shankar last night after her concert in Montreal. Her sitar music is so healing that is traditional, contemporary and intergenerational. 💙
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I love how our Canadian medical students like
@divyasanthan3
@itsNehaMalhotra
@harshnaik06
et al push for COVID-19 vaccine IP waiver and speaks volume of the next generation of physicians in this country with an equity and social justice frame of mind.
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I love being raw, political, and vulnerable when I lecture. What great energy this afternoon. This is how students learn to engage in justice. Everyone should design global health courses like
@paimadhu
to elicit critical consciousness and push for radical transformation.
In her talk in the global health course today,
@ananya_tb
engaged the students on what saviorism is and how global north schools should rethink their training model
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After multiple rejections and revisions in the last two years our impactful findings from the South Asian Adolescent Diabetes Awareness Program (SAADAP) funded by
@Lawson_Fdn
will be published soon in a peer-reviewed academic journal!🥳
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Thank you
@CanJDiabetes
for the invitation to sit on the editorial board with such prolific colleagues in diabetes research, practice and policy. This is a big milestone for me as an early career researcher.
#diabetes
#SDOH
#healthequity
Warm welcome to our new National Consultant Editor
@ananya_tb
. We look forward to working with you!
#CanJDiabetes
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I grew up in a spiritual Hindu Brahmin family. My grandma taught us to love all religions. We have symbols of each religion at our home temple. As the funeral begins we light four candles for the Afzal family and in solidarity with Muslim communities.
#ldnont
#OurLondonFamily
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Travelled virtually across 🇨🇦 to talk about the crisis in 🇮🇳 on
@CBCRadioCanada
& stressed:
1. 🇨🇦 gov't provide aid now & support patent waivers for vaccines.
2. People in 🇨🇦 can't blame 🇮🇳 or its citizens for B1617.
3. Indians in 🇨🇦 constant despair for our families back home.
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Quebec confirms first case of B.1.617 variant from India. This makes me nervous that South Asians in Canada are going to be hit with an escalated level of racism as we cope with our own 3rd wave and help families batting the 2nd wave back home.
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Just travelled virtually across Canada and finished 13
@cbcradio
interviews advocating for why racialized Canadians in vulnerable settings should be prioritized for vaccines driven by systemic racism and
#SDOH
. Most at risk, first in line.
#cdnpoli
#COVID19
#HealthEquity
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#HappyMothersDay
to my mom's sis in India. She lost her daughter after giving birth. I can't replace my cousin but we have an unconditional bond. Mashi is my mom. I can't wait to visit her in Kolkata which seems far in sight so she can scold me when I say I can't eat no more.♥️🇮🇳
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My family & I are battling
#Covid
symptoms that could be the flu. We just can’t access any sort of testing.
During lecture yesterday one of my public health students noticed how sick I was & was dropped off extra rapid test kits they had at my doorstep. ♥️
We all tested - 🙏🏾
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Many of you are asking how you can support the dire crisis in 🇮🇳. My colleagues have created a list of trusted fundraising efforts including increasing and sustaining oxygen supply in Indian hospitals and homes. Your help is much appreciated and urgently needed.
#COVID19India
NEW! Comprehensive list of fundraising opportunities for essential COVID support in India - this document is updated regularly. Please share widely
@mairal
@paimadhu
@PrakashLab
@nitinaneo
@ananya_tb
@MeghaVishwanath
@lavanyadj
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I received one of the most beautiful and heartfelt gifts from one of my students who graduated from
@mcgillu
@McGillEBOH
this week in public health. 😭
The artist is Brintha Koneshachandra from Montreal.
@koneshachandra
Feel grateful 🙏🏾
#decolonizing
#RepresentationMatters
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So excited to deliver the inaugural PPHS 683 Race, Ethnicity, And Culture in Health (REACH) course this fall term at
@mcgillu
@McGillEBOH
@McGill_SPGH
led by Indigenous, Black & POC faculty and communities to our MScPH students.
#healthequity
#intersectionality
#PublicHealth
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My ma didn't know she was immigrating to stolen land 48 years ago. Recently, she realized being complicit in benefiting from settler-colonialism in Canada.
My ma asked me to join her at Dundas Square tonight wearing orange shirts in honour of the 1,323 Indigenous children.🧡
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Recently many of us who self-identify as South Asian across Canada working mobilized together through a series of workshops called Future Search to begin confronting power, privilege and intersectionality in our diaspora communities. Read more below -
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Who is watching
#TheChair
on
@netflix
? As a
#WOC
who held a leadership postion in academia I resonated with the many issues of racial and gender bias portrayed with humour. This comedy is definitely worth watching and loved
@IamSandraOh
! 🇨🇦
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
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Just discovered this month the power of working with incredible teams composed of women of colour academics leading the submission of
@CIHR_IRSC
grants to unpack health inequities based on our own lived experiences & leveraging on our privilege constructively.
#AcademicChatter
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The feelings you have as a daughter when your immigrant mother who survived
#Cancer
and immunocompromised gets the
#CovidVaccine
and can begin fighting COVID. She hopes everyone has the structural and personal support she had from myself and her medical team to come this far. 🙏🏾
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It is so appalling how the Coronavirus concerns in Toronto are leading to racism against the Chinese community. When you have a thing like this, it really impacts people's incomes, people's livelihood, it has a huge effect on the community.
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My latest with
@SaleemRazack
for the
@TorontoStar
. Scapegoating parts of the world by exotically naming COVID variants after them is a means to distraction from the very real policy failures at home & globally. 🇮🇳🇨🇦🌍
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The invitation to speak at events since becoming an EDI Lead has quadrupled for me.
I want to say no at times as the emotional labour can take a toll but I take it as an opportunity to advocate and speak the truth along with inspiring many in solidarity.
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Grateful to write this article for
@UA_magazine
on how professors can help to improve the
#mentalhealth
of our students during
#COVID19
, a tribute to all students
@UofT
@UofT_dlsph
for coming to my office over the years, being honest and vulnerable with me. We are here for you.
By fostering positive relationships, professors can help improve the mental health of their students during the
#COVID19
pandemic, writes
@ananya_tb
.
#cdnpse
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The right to health is the economic, social, and cultural right to a universal minimum standard of health to which all individuals are entitled in Ontario.
Cutting access to healthcare for uninsured residents is a violation of human rights and goes against health equity.
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Dear
@mcgillu
we are waiting for you to jump on the bandwagon to make vaccination a requirement for students, faculty, staff and visitors on campus. Being protected from the delta variant will ensure a successful and sustained return.
#CovidIsNotOver
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Join me next week on Monday to learn about my interdisciplinary research that embeds a strong emphasis on community-led participatory pedagogy and health equity research grounded in collaboration & partnership with South Asian students, alumni and OUR communities.
#PublicHealth
For the next
@McGillEBOH
Epidemiology seminar, EBOH's own
@ananya_tb
will present: "How can community-based mixed methods research tell us more about South Asian health inequities in Canada?"
Join us Monday, November 15, 4 PM EST! Details and Zoom link:
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The
@mcgillu
Fall 2023 teaching semester is done for me. With all the research and service, I wasn't sure if I did justice in the classroom.
When I gave my final words one student shouted:
"We love you Ananya".
I almost cried.
I ❤️ my students.
See you in 2024! ✨
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Excited to offer the PPHS 683 Intersectionality, Racism and Health Equity course next semester through
@McGill_SPGH
@mcgillu
with this incredible line up of educators to inspire students to reimagine a world without racial injustices.
It takes a village to be transformative.
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It was so incredible to discover a South Asian grocery store in Montreal near me to buy spices, lentils, basmati rice, fish etc. Loved speaking Bengali to the owners and sharing our mutual cultural stories and cooking traditions.
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South Asian public health professionals in the GTA have launched the South Asian Allyship Network. Follow us on instagram
@southasianallyship
. We are hosting the 1st intergenerational webinar on Saturday with Drs. Arun & Alok Mukherjee & Seema Hari. Check out their bios below.
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The
@mcgillu
2023 winter teaching semester is officially over for me and had my last class with my most favourite cohort of students in my academic career. Never have I worked with such a diverse group of students demonstrating health equity can be achieved through solidarity. 💛
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Transitioning from
@UofT
to
@mcgillu
in a
#pandemic
& teaching 1st time virtually was scary. Much gratitude to
@McGillEBOH
@McGill_SPGH
students for welcoming me with open arms and being so engaged in my PPHS 612 & 684 courses & fuelling my passion for public health teaching.♥️
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I appreciate this article by the
@globeandmail
compared to
@TorontoStar
that was published today on the high rates of
#COVID19
in South Asians of
@regionofpeel
.
@globeandmail
sharpened the focus on structural and societal inequalities instead of blaming us and our culture.
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