Community Spotlight: Stéfanie von Hlatky (2024 Fellow)
Community Spotlight: Bernard Richard (2012 Mentor)
Community Spotlight: Charlie Wall-Andrews (2020 Scholar)
The 2025 Application Review and Nomination Committee
From Research to Impact - Robert Huish: How the Healthcare System in Cuba Defies the Odds
In this episode of From Research to Impact, host Ann Elisabeth Samson is joined by Robert Huish, a 2004 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar and associate professor at Dalhousie University, for a conversation that bridges personal experience with global impact. Robert’s journey offers a compelling lens on how sanctions shape healthcare systems, and how countries like Cuba respond with resilience and ingenuity. Robert brings a wealth of experience, spanning from the healthcare system in Cuba to human rights in North Korea, all rooted in a passion for social justice. This discussion invites us to reflect critically on these connections and imagine how we might act to bridge the gaps they reveal.
This conversation is for anyone curious about international development, health equity, or the power of human ingenuity under pressure. Learn how health intersects with policy and why investing in people can defy even the toughest odds, leaving you inspired to think bigger about the world’s challenges and your place in addressing them.
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Also available on Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts.
Announcing the New 2025 Cohort
From Research to Impact - Jasmine Mah: How Social Circumstances Shape Older Adult Care
In this compelling episode of From Research to Impact, Dr. Jasmine Mah—a physician and scholar at the forefront of geriatric medicine—unpacks the deep connections between social vulnerability, frailty, and health outcomes in older adults. As Canada braces for a demographic shift with a surge in centenarians, Dr. Mah’s research offers urgent insights into how our systems are failing the elderly.
This episode is for anyone hoping to understand the nuances behind elder care. And it’s not just for the aging population: remember, it’s better to prevent medical issues than struggle to cure them.
About Dr. Jasmine Mah
Jasmine is a geriatric medicine residential fellow at Dalhousie University. She received her medical degree from the University of Ottawa and her PhD from Dalhousie University. Jasmine is passionate about the care and treatment of older adults. Her interest in caring for elderly patients is inspired by her own family experience with the long-term care system. She is also an advocate for better solutions for the elderly to live and receive health and social care with dignity and respect.
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Also available on Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts.
Masterclass on “Art-Based Research and Artistic Methodologies” by Dr. Taiwo Afolabi (2024 Mentor)
Linda Mussell : Prison Tourism
We need to bring more healing, memory and awareness to tourism development in Kingston — healing for those who were harmed by prisons, memory in order to accurately commemorate the institution and awareness about how some of those painful legacies continue in prisons today.
The full article is available here.
Linda Mussell is a doctoral candidate in political studies at Queen's University who is passionate about prison justice and decolonizing research. Her work is focused on breaking cycles of intergenerational incarceration in countries grappling with colonial legacies, specifically Canada, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Abigail Curlew: Transgender hate crimes
Abigail speaks about her personal experience with hostility and fear and raises concerns about the ways in which violence is reported.
We need to have a collective conversation about the consequences of the widespread oppression and persecution many of us face when general anti-trans hostility is allowed to fester unacknowledged.
The full article is available here.
Abigail Curlew is a journalist, doctoral researcher, and trans feminist who specializes in advocacy around LGBTQ+ human rights, surveillance studies, and research around social media, doxxing, and trolls.