Open Lab will be paused for June during the summer break ☀️ Follow our website and social media channels, and sign up for our newsletter to stay updated on our first hybrid Open Lab happening in July.

📣 Call for Papers Submit to Advancing Equity in Digital Health Communication Systems with Springer Nature ✨ We’re looking for research that explores equity, access, and inclusion in digital health. 🗓 Deadline: Nov 30, 2026 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/Mj3gl39

The Thriving vs. Surviving Project is hosting virtual roundtables (60–90 min) to gather community insights. Open to: • People with lived experience & carers • Advocacy groups • Researchers $50 gift card provided. Register: buff.ly/2nNZX3I

Disability Accommodation in the Workplace, Adaptive Technology, and Reimagining Labour Law through Crip Time Part II Adaptive technology opens pathways to meaningful work for people with disabilities. 🗓️April 22, 2026 ⏱️10:30 AM to 12 PM EST 💻VIRTUAL ONLY

Join us April 7 for our CERC HECW Open Lab! Dr. Mikyung Lee & Dr. Eun Jung present: Tracking Pathways Through Education and Employment — a longitudinal study on advancing health equity for equity-deserving youth in Canada. 💻 Virtual | Registration required: buff.ly/OKGvslh

Disability Accommodation in the Workplace, Adaptive Technology, and Reimagining Labour Law through Crip Time Part II Adaptive technology opens pathways to meaningful work for people with disabilities. 🗓️April 22, 2026 ⏱️10:30 AM to 12 PM EST 💻VIRTUAL ONLY

✨ It’s Symposium Day! ✨ We’re so excited to welcome you all today! Get ready for a full day of student-led research, powerful conversations, and community connection 💬 📍Make sure to check the program + arrive on time for your sessions! Let’s go 👏

Bridging Gaps in Care Not sure how to get to the venue? Our nursing student intern team put together quick guide videos to make your arrival easy and accessible. Check them out before you come! buff.ly/16DNpbo

The Student Symposium agenda is officially out! Join us for student-led conversations on equity, tech-facilitated violence, and community wellbeing. Program 👇 buff.ly/wASgLUR

📢 Our Student Symposium agenda is now live! The event will explore barriers to health care access in Canada and the intersecting structural factors shaping how equity-deserving communities experience care.

📢 Youth Research Opportunity (Canada) - buff.ly/jiCFx9t Are you 17–19, identify as Black, transgender/gender-diverse, or a youth living with disabilities, and not currently in post-secondary? Take a 20-minute survey. 🎁$10 Amazon gift card 📩 [email protected]

CERC HECW and Casey House teams coming together for a collaborative co-design session to strengthen engagement in HIV care and build more equitable, community-driven health systems. 🤝🏽🏥✨

Today we celebrate the strength, leadership, and impact of women in our communities and beyond. 💜🌸 Together, we’re building systems rooted in equity, compassion, and change. Check out publications (link in bio) by our women researchers and the incredible impact they’re making. buff.ly/yCWAYfj

Our expert panel brings together leaders across clinical care, Indigenous health, strategy, education, and global health equity. Featuring: Dionne Sinclair (CAMH) Dr. Yasser Ismail (Casey House) Roberta Pike (Unity Health Toronto) Mary Beth Halferty Kraay (TMU)

We’re honoured to welcome Dr. Michelle Murti, Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto, as our Keynote Speaker! 📅 March 25, 2026 🎤 Bridging Gaps in Care: Building Inclusive Health Systems for Health Equity Registration now open. buff.ly/o0OwCeX

What would work look like if it truly centered accessibility? Join our speakers for a dynamic conversation on disability accommodation, adaptive tools, and rethinking time, productivity, and policy. Let’s imagine better systems — together. Register today. buff.ly/mpsGP9t

Access to primary health care is a right — not a privilege. We’re inviting women and gender-diverse people with disabilities across Canada to share their experiences through a national survey. Your insights will help shape research, policy, & more inclusive health systems. 📝 Take the survey today.

We’re excited to launch our CERC-HECW Open Labs — starting March 3! 🎉 These open team meetings are a space to explore projects, exchange research insights, and engage in meaningful dialogue. 🗓 First Tuesday of every month ⏰ 10:15 AM 📝 Registration required See you there!

How do we build safer, more just digital spaces? Join Karen Soldatic & Eunice Tunggal at the Fourth Global Symposium on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence. 🗓 March 4–5, 2026 | 💻 Virtual | 🎟 Free buff.ly/yjmfuHE

Join us for an important conversation on disability accommodation, accessibility, and reimagining work through the lens of crip time. 📅 April 22, 2026 ⏰ 10:30 AM–12 PM EST 💻 Virtual Register now to be part of the discussion. buff.ly/Af87us8

Curious about what we’re building at CERC–HECW? Join our monthly Open Labs to explore projects, share research insights, and connect with colleagues across disciplines. 📅 First Tuesday of every month ⏰ 10:15 AM 🔗 Registration required: buff.ly/9ayFMEo Let’s learn and collaborate together

Black history is living, evolving, and forward-looking. We’re celebrating the strength, creativity, and leadership of Black youth while building pathways to opportunity through education, employment, and health equity. The future is being shaped now — together.

📢 Call for Papers — Sage Special Issue Violence Against Women: Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence & Frontline Healthcare Responses Please email your 300-word abstract along with a 50-word author bio to [email protected] by April 30, 2026 www.torontomu.ca/cerc-health-...

Our Winter 2026 Newsletter is here. We’re starting the year with health equity in action — sharing upcoming public events, disability-led and community-engaged research, accessible reports, and partnerships advancing justice across Canada and beyond. Subscribe here: buff.ly/5TYefpI

Masterclass: Novel Sociological Methods in Disability Communities Explore innovative, justice-driven research in Mad & Disability Studies. Join experts for an interactive masterclass + Q&A. 📅 Feb 11, 2026 | ⏰ 9:30–11 AM EDT 💻 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Link in bio to register

📢 Call for Papers – Graduate Student Symposium CERC in Health Equity & Community Wellbeing invites graduate students to submit abstracts on inclusive health systems & health equity. 📅 Mar 25, 2026 | 📝 Due Feb 10 | 🏆 Student awards 📧 [email protected] #HealthEquity #InclusiveHealth #GradResearch

💬 Your voice matters. Do you: ✅ Identify as a person with a disability? ✅ Identify as a woman or as gender-diverse? ✅ Live in Canada and are 18+? 📝 Take the survey now: buff.ly/Aa6qqMq #AccessibleHealthcare #GenderEquity #HealthEquity #CommunityWellbeing

📣 Call for Papers Building Inclusive Health Systems to Advance Health Equity across Canada 📅 March 25, 2026 | Toronto Metropolitan University Grad students across Canada are invited. 🏆 Best Paper Award: $500 ⏰ Deadline: Feb 10, 2026 📩 [email protected] #CallForPapers #HealthEquity

Masterclass: Novel Sociological Methods & Practices in Disability Communities 📅 Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 ⏰ Time: 9:30 AM - 11 AM EDT 💻 Location: Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: buff.ly/BnNPTVg #HealthEquity #MadStudies #InclusiveResearch

📢 Share your experience Do you: ✅ Identify as a person with a disability? ✅ Identify as a woman or as gender-diverse? ✅ Live in Canada and are 18+? 📝 Take our national survey (max 45 minutes): buff.ly/Aa6qqMq #AccessibleHealthcare #GenderEquity #HealthEquity #CommunityWellbeing

Day 16 of #16DaysOfActivism As we close this year’s campaign, we honour survivors, recognize the ongoing realities of violence, and continue our commitment to building safer, more inclusive digital and physical spaces for all women and girls. #16Days #EndGBV #OnlineSafety

Day 15 | 16 Days of Activism Digital spaces can connect and support women and girls with disabilities, but without protections, they can also expose them to online violence. Safety isn’t equal for everyone, and change must be supportive and context-specific. Read more: buff.ly/XgTKU8k

Digital violence impacts 16–58% of women and girls. Together, we can make the internet safer. #16DaysOfActivism #EndGenderBasedViolence #DigitalSafety

Day 13 of the 16 Days of Activism Today, we spotlight research on the experiences of Indigenous women in Australia living with traumatic brain injury from violence. Read more here: buff.ly/Zb9NQZa #16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV #IndigenousRights #HealthEquity

Day 12 of the 16 Days of Activism Highlighting our ongoing project on gender-based violence and digital technology, exploring how women with disabilities in South Africa navigate safety, risk, and wellbeing online. Read more here: buff.ly/dTbRdaZ #16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DigitalSafety

Day 11 of the 16 Days of Activism Today, we highlight the Head Health and Healing project, an ongoing initiative addressing violence-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Read more here: buff.ly/r64tw1h #16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV

Our recent op-ed, “We Must Create Safer Online Spaces for Women with Disabilities,” by Eunice Tunggal, Babalwa Tyabashe-Phume, Karen Soldatić, and Lieketseng Ned. Read here: buff.ly/uv2rYyc #DigitalInclusion #WomenWithDisabilities #OnlineSafety #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #SafeSpaces

Day 9 of the 16 Days of Activism More clips from Bytes and Barriers, the symposium on technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities. Explore the roadmap here: buff.ly/CbRbbE5 #16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #DigitalSafety #EndGBV

This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we’re highlighting the barriers women and gender-diverse people with disabilities face in primary care. If you're 18+, in Canada, and identify as a woman or gender-diverse person with a disability, please take our survey: buff.ly/QIQnNU9

Day 8 of the 16 Days of Activism Today, we highlight an ongoing project at CERC HECW: AI-Powered Technology-Facilitated Violence, an interdisciplinary initiative developing context-aware AI to detect and address online abuse targeting disabled women. 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/Zny0rbw #16Days

📢 Now Launched: Diverse Disability Identities: Gender and Sexuality, Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Indigeneity – A Summary of Key Findings Read the full report here: buff.ly/CT1CGoU #DisabilityStudies #Intersectionality #DiverseIdentities #DisabilityResearch #CulturalNavigation

Day 7 of the 16 Days of Activism Featuring moments from Bytes and Barriers. Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped create space for awareness, connection, and action. Explore the roadmap here: buff.ly/CbRbbE5 #16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #DigitalSafety #EndGBV

Gender-based violence is a reality experienced by one in three women worldwide. A crisis that demands collective action, awareness, and accountability. Source: UN Women #16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV #StopGBV #ActNow

Day 5 of the 16 Days of Activism: A peer-reviewed article by Michelle S. Fitts, Yasmin Johnson & Karen Soldatic explores how hospital staff support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experiencing traumatic brain injury (TBI) from family violence. Read the article here: buff.ly/MocyrGH

Day 4 of the 16 Days of Activism: The Bytes and Barriers Roadmap centres the experiences of women and girls with disabilities and provides guidance for meaningful change in digital safety. Discover the full roadmap: buff.ly/CbRbbE5 #16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV #DigitalSafety #TFGBV

Your path, your voice, your impact. This survey is part of a national effort to better understand the experiences of equity-deserving youth in Canada. Your perspective helps create meaningful change. 📢 Share your story: buff.ly/GY3Q0xI #CommunityResearch #YouthLeadership #HealthEquity

Day 3: #16DaysAgainstGBV Highlighting an ongoing project: Transnational Policy Responses — learning from the experiences of women and girls with disabilities to support safer, more inclusive policies. Learn more: buff.ly/5t3yjG6 #16DaysAgainstGBV #EndGBV #DisabilityJustice #EndViolence

Join us for From Surviving to Thriving: Reimagining Disability Supports in Canada, featuring Dr. Christine Sheppard, Hubert Van Niekerk, and Dr. Nadia Carvalho. 📅 Wednesday, December 3, 2025 ⏰ 2:30–4:00 PM EDT 📍 Hybrid — DCC-705, 288 Church St, Toronto & Online Register here: buff.ly/3UbpOkg

On Day 2 of the 16 Days of Activism Highlighting Bytes and Barriers: a symposium addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities. Check out the roadmap here: buff.ly/kt9PTbz.. #16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #DigitalSafety

On Day 2 of the 16 Days of Activism Highlighting Bytes and Barriers: a symposium addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities. Check out the roadmap here: buff.ly/kt9PTbz.. #16DaysOfActivism #TFGBV #DisabilityJustice #DigitalSafety