aberthel@yorku.ca
https://agnesberthelotraffard.com

Dr. Agnès Berthelot-Raffard is an Assistant Professor in the Critical Disability Studies graduate program in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Her works focus on Black Health Studies/Black Disability Studies. She analyses the impact of racism and racialization on all dimensions of health and well-being. She also tries to examine the consequences of epistemic injustices in the healthcare system for those who are on the margins. Dr. Berthelot-Raffard is currently leading a Pan-Canadian project on the socio-determinants of Black Students’ Mental Health (funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada). As principal investigator, she is also working on Black women’s reproductive health (with Relais Femmes, a feminist community partner in Quebec).
In her PhD, she analyses the ethical and political stakes on the recognition of caregiving. As a political philosopher, she published several papers about the rights of caregivers, and the ethical aspects of caring for an elderly or someone living with a disability, a chronic illness or a cognitive impairment. She also published feminist philosophy papers on Black feminist epistemology, and about the care workers’ rights in a transnational perspective.
Before joining York, she worked as an advisor in the ethics of research board (Direction de santé publique de Montréal). She taught bioethics, medical ethics, and ethics of public health. She was also an Assistant Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. Knew as an expert of Black feminism, Dr. Berthelot-Raffard created the first accredited university course in the francophone world devoted entirely to this political thought (UQAM, Montreal, Quebec).