Our Elders Are So Important to Us: A TB Sanatorium Healing Journey
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Date: Tuesday, November 03, 2026
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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From the 1940s to the 1960s, about half of Eastern Arctic Inuit in Canada were sent south for TB treatment without consent and separated from their families, some for years. This 29-minute documentary follows the 2025 Intergenerational Healing Journey, which brought survivors and youth from Nunavut back to the former Mountain Sanatorium site in Hamilton, Ontario, for closure and sharing stories across generations. Elders and youth speak about this history, how it shapes families today, and what healing means to them.
Despite efforts to eliminate TB, it remains a crisis in Inuit Nunangat, and an interim 2025 target to halve rates was not met.
We're bringing together Elders, youth, families, friends, and community organizations for an evening of learning, reflection, and connection.
Online: Community Watch Party: End TB in Inuit Nunangat The film will be live on YouTube from 6:00 pm Eastern on November 3: Link Watch with family, friends or colleagues, wherever you are.
In person November 3, 6:00 to 8:00 pm Astro Theatre, Iqaluit Free, with popcorn and drink RSVP
Host your own screening Our Community Screening Guide has everything you need to show the film safely and sensitively: a content note, support lines, a facilitator’s guide, and background on the history and TB today. Please let us know if have any questions.
The film includes difficult memories of the sanatorium years. If you need to talk to someone, call the Kamatsiaqtut Helpline (24/7) at 1-800-265-3333.
TB is preventable, treatable, and curable, and most people are now tested and treated in their own community.
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24 November
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Profiling Health for Equitable Benefit-sharing in the Global Critical Mineral Value-chain in East and Southern Africa
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Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2026
Time: 5:00 am - 7:00 am
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The panel session will:
Summarise opportunities, challenges for profiling health for equitable benefit-sharing in the global critical mineral value-chain
Provide a broad overview of health challenges in the critical minerals sector, health impact assessment as a tool for exposing and addressing these challenges and its policy and implementation to date
Share selected HIA evidence on key issues in and options for the critical minerals sector in Zimbabwe, Zambia and DRC
Learn more about AEGT-Zimbabwe (African Extractivism & the Green Transition) here: https://www.aegt.ca/
Speaker Profiles
Panel Moderator and Presenter
Dr. Rene Loewenson, FRSPH, TARSC/EQUINET, Zimbabwe
Rene is a Zimbabwean epidemiologist, public health practitioner and Director of the Training and Research Support Centre. She has since 1980 implemented and led research consortia, including on participatory action research, policy analysis, training and mentoring of work focusing on equity in health, social and commercial determinants of health, health impact assessment and health systems. She is a founder member of EQUINET and has been a technical/strategic advisor to UN.
Panel Presenters
Mr. Lyman Mlambo, Zimbabwe Country Manager, AEGT Zimbabwe
Lyman is an independent mining policy consultant and an adjunct lecturer of mineral economics at the University of Zimbabwe. He was a mineral economics research fellow and chairperson of the Institute of Mining Research (University of Zimbabwe) for several years. He holds a BSc and MSc in economics, and a certificate in mineral resource valuation.
Mr. Philippe Dunia, Researcher, Centre of Expertise and mining governance (CEGEMi-Catholic University of Bukavu); DRCongo; PhD. Student at IOB-Uantwerpen
Phillipe has a masters degree in development studies, with a special focus on development, environment and society from the University of Liege and the Catholic University of Louvain. He is now doing his PhD in Development studies at the University of Antwerp. His doctoral research focuses on social protection in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in the DR Congo.
Mr. Derrick Bwalya, Research Associate, Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR) Zambia
Derrick holds a bachelor's degree in Geography and Environmental studies and a Master of Science in the same field from the University of Zambia. He is a Research Associate at Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR) in Lusaka, Zambia. He is also a research assistant on the African Extractivism and Green Transition (AEGT) project. He has over 10 years of experience in coordinating projects including health impact assessments, population, politics and democracy, environmental and climate change projects
7th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium
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Date: Wednesday, December 09, 2026
Time: 7:00 am - 9:00 am
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Join us for the 7th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium to learn more about some of the groundbreaking research being conducted at the Dahdaleh Institute. This year, accomplished Dahdaleh graduate scholars will share the progress of their funded research projects in line with the Institute's three themes (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting).
The exciting presentation lineup is coming soon!
Register here to attend and join us on December 9, 2026 at 10 AM!
Thank you for your interest in our event programming at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Please visit, https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/events/ for more information.
