09/21/2023
Why Promoting Representation is Critical to Advancing Cardiac Care for Canadian Patients—From the beginning, CANet has prioritized diversity, integrating underrepresented groups into all levels of the organization.
This non-profit is leading the way when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion, not only within its direct network, but with patients.
“We need to find ways to prioritize community-based, community-informed research that meaningfully involves Elders and Knowledge Holders and people with lived or living experience, bringing their own perspectives which can in turn, enrich and inform research that’s being done in the cardiac space.” Dr. Alexandra King of Nipissing First Nation and co-lead of Pewaseskwan (the Indigenous Wellness Research Group)
Women's visibility for their contributions to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has gradually improved over the years as governments,