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The CSM Indigenous, Local and Global Health office exists to facilitate education, research and engagement efforts that build health equity at home and abroad, and to draw from experience to offer best-evidence resources that enable students, staff and faculty to pursue community-driven solutions that address social and health disparities. Our commitment is to collaborate with communities to address the barriers that create health and social disparities; and through this engagement co-foster solutions that change inequitable conditions, systems and policies... As a source of evidence-based knowledge, we offer trusted health and technical support to co-create capacity in communities in marginalized settings; and to promote best-practices in the community engagement efforts of our staff and faculty. As facilitators, we act as a resource to enable experiences that educate students on the different cultures, beliefs, delivery systems and types of social determinants that affect health. As..

Primary location: Calgary Canada