Muriel Mac-Seing
Scientific Series: December 12, 2024
More equitable diversity in research through the lens of disability and intersectionality
In collaboration with the Centre de recherche en santé publique (CReSP).
This presentation provided clinical staff, researchers, and students with foundational knowledge to integrate equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) considerations into their work and research, specifically through the lens of disability and intersectionality. This lecture was structured into three sections: 1) an introduction to considerations of EDI and intersectionality, 2) a practical example how these concepts are operationalized and analysed in global public health research, and 3) an interactive session for exchanges and discussions.
At the end of this presentation, participants were able to:
Increase their awareness (clinical staff, researchers, and students) about the principles of EDI and the conceptual framework of intersectionality.
Foster interest in integrating EDI considerations and intersectional perspectives into their work.
Discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in incorporating EDI and intersectionality into their professional practice and research.
Dr. Muriel Mac-Seing is an Assistant Professor in Global Health at the School of Public Health of the Université de Montréal. Her research areas focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights and inclusive climate action for people with disabilities and population groups living in situations of vulnerability. Her work draws upon the critical lens of intersectionality, disability, health equity, and structural determinants of health (including governance, leadership, and policy). Through mixed methods and the intersectionality-based policy analysis framework, she examined the relationships between legislation, health policy, and the use of sexual and reproductive health services for people with disabilities in post-conflict Northern Uganda. Currently, she is implementing the following research projects: 1) a participatory action-research project on sexual education and sexual and reproductive health rights for youth with disabilities in Uganda and youth living in the slums of Bangladesh; and 2) an exploratory project on the intersection of climate change and access to health services by people with disabilities and their animals, through the approaches of One Health and intersectionality in Québec and the district of Gulu, Uganda.