The Imperatives of Anti-Racism in Leadership - Dr. Marcia Anderson AHSLP Keynote September 23, 2020

The Academic Health Sciences Leadership Program Keynote Address, presented by the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI).

Overview
Anti-racism has always been a critical skill for leadership, though generally under-recognized and undervalued. The lack of anti-racist leadership contributes to the maintenance of multiple forms of racism with significant impacts on Black and Indigenous learners, employees, colleagues, patients, and the public. Achieving health equity and fully respecting, protecting, and fulfilling the rights of people to be free from discrimination will require anti-racist practice in each of the domains of the LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework.

About Dr. Marcia Anderson
Dr. Marcia Anderson is Cree-Anishinaabe and
grew up in the North End of Winnipeg. Her family roots go to the Norway House Cree Nation and Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. She practices both Internal Medicine and Public Health as a Medical Officer of Health with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. She is the Vice-Dean, Indigenous Health and the Executive Director of Indigenous Academic Affairs in the Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.
She serves as the Chair of the Indigenous Health Network of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada. She is a Past President of
the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada and Past Chair of the Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress. She was recognized for her contributions to Indigenous peoples health with a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in March 2011. In 2018, she was named one of the 100 most powerful women in Canada by the Women’s Executive Network.