Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Antica Productions
7 episodes
5 months ago
Universal healthcare is supposed to mean that everyone gets equitable access, treatment and care. But do we really?
From the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and hosted by Dr. Alika Lafontaine, The Healthcare Divide is a new podcast that exposes uncomfortable truths, troubling realities and innovative efforts to overcome racism in Canada’s healthcare system.
Patients, healthcare workers and medical experts weigh in on everything from experiences of harm to grassroots care movements, policy change, and explorations of artificial intelligence to bridge the divide with real stories, data-driven insights, and expert interviews that expose the cracks in the system.
The Healthcare Divide is produced by Antica Productions and Makwa Creative. The podcast was made possible by support from Pfizer Canada.
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Universal healthcare is supposed to mean that everyone gets equitable access, treatment and care. But do we really?
From the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and hosted by Dr. Alika Lafontaine, The Healthcare Divide is a new podcast that exposes uncomfortable truths, troubling realities and innovative efforts to overcome racism in Canada’s healthcare system.
Patients, healthcare workers and medical experts weigh in on everything from experiences of harm to grassroots care movements, policy change, and explorations of artificial intelligence to bridge the divide with real stories, data-driven insights, and expert interviews that expose the cracks in the system.
The Healthcare Divide is produced by Antica Productions and Makwa Creative. The podcast was made possible by support from Pfizer Canada.
A decades-old decision created a system where Black Canadians need to be sicker than the rest of the population to qualify for a living kidney donor transplant. How did this happen? And why does it persist today if science doesn’t support it?
Voices in this episode:
Charles Cook, donor recipient
Lydia-Joi Marshall, project lead at the Health Commons Solutions Lab and President of the Black Health Alliance
Dr. Bourne Auguste, nephrologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
The Healthcare Divide
Universal healthcare is supposed to mean that everyone gets equitable access, treatment and care. But do we really?
From the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and hosted by Dr. Alika Lafontaine, The Healthcare Divide is a new podcast that exposes uncomfortable truths, troubling realities and innovative efforts to overcome racism in Canada’s healthcare system.
Patients, healthcare workers and medical experts weigh in on everything from experiences of harm to grassroots care movements, policy change, and explorations of artificial intelligence to bridge the divide with real stories, data-driven insights, and expert interviews that expose the cracks in the system.
The Healthcare Divide is produced by Antica Productions and Makwa Creative. The podcast was made possible by support from Pfizer Canada.
