馃搮 Date: April 27, 2026
馃暁 Time: 11:00 AM 鈥 1:00 PM
馃搷 Location: 性爱学堂, Atelier (95 Clegg Street, Ottawa)
This roundtable convenes researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders to engage in a structured dialogue on the systems shaping healthcare access for immigrants, refugees, and refugee claimants in Ottawa.
Purpose
This session creates space for critical dialogue across sectors to examine how policy, governance, and service delivery interact to produce inequities. The focus is not only on access, but on the structural conditions that shape it.
Key Themes
- Policy fragmentation across IFHP and provincial systems
- Coordination challenges across levels of government
- Service delivery constraints
- The role of lived experience in shaping equitable policy responses
Format
Short panel interventions followed by moderated dialogue and audience engagement. The aim is to surface diverse perspectives and generate shared insight across research, policy, and practice.
Guiding Question
How do current policy and governance structures produce鈥攁nd potentially mitigate鈥攈ealth inequities for newcomers?
Outcomes
The roundtable generates collective reflection, identifies priority challenges, and surfaces directions for policy and system-level change.
Next Step
This discussion continues in a hands-on setting focused on translating insights into action.
Registration
Lunch will be provided for the first 15 registered participants. To register, please send an email to enisr013@uottawa.ca.
