farahway.bsky.social
@farahway.bsky.social
Social/Psychiatric Epidemiologist; #ImpSci - Assistant Prof, Public Health & Social Policy, UVic; Affiliate Scientist, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions; Academic Editor, Mental Health, PLOS Global Public Health; CIHR Training Platform co-lead
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A brief intro: I'm a community-engaged social & psychiatric epidemiologist. I advance an anti-racist implementation science approach to reducing social & mental health inequities. I look forward to engaging with you here. #SDoH #impsci #episky #publichealth #globalhealth #healthpolicy #hspr
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"From Madrid, to Vigo, to Zaragoza, and Barcelona, tens of thousands across [Spain] took to the streets and workers went on strike in solidarity with Palestine."
"[C]hanting slogans for Palestine and saying, 'It is not a peace plan if it is led by Trump.'"
#Spain #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
"[C]hanting slogans for Palestine and saying, 'It is not a peace plan if it is led by Trump.'"
#Spain #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
In Spain, Tens of Thousands Take to the Streets and Strike for Palestine - Left Voice
From Madrid, to Barcelona, to Malaga workers and students mobilized in a national day of action across the Spanish State. This powerful action marks a critical leap in the global class struggle,…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"From Madrid, to Vigo, to Zaragoza, and Barcelona, tens of thousands across [Spain] took to the streets and workers went on strike in solidarity with Palestine."
"[C]hanting slogans for Palestine and saying, 'It is not a peace plan if it is led by Trump.'"
#Spain #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
"[C]hanting slogans for Palestine and saying, 'It is not a peace plan if it is led by Trump.'"
#Spain #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
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Send some funds to a Black trans academic who has been suspended from her job without pay for pro-Palestine/anti-zionist speech.
This action has resulted in her being stripped of her health insurance - a deadly action by a cruel administration, especially now.
chuffed.org/project/1455...
This action has resulted in her being stripped of her health insurance - a deadly action by a cruel administration, especially now.
chuffed.org/project/1455...
Black Trans Academic Targeted and Fined for Pro-Palestine Speech
Black trans academic suspended and fined for pro-Palestine/anti-z1onist speech.
chuffed.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Send some funds to a Black trans academic who has been suspended from her job without pay for pro-Palestine/anti-zionist speech.
This action has resulted in her being stripped of her health insurance - a deadly action by a cruel administration, especially now.
chuffed.org/project/1455...
This action has resulted in her being stripped of her health insurance - a deadly action by a cruel administration, especially now.
chuffed.org/project/1455...
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Refaat Alareer’s family is struggling. They returned to find their home demolished. If you have quoted a line from his poetry, retweeted something, or mourned his death, please support his family today. chuffed.org/project/1093...
Helping the Al-Areer family survive atrocities
Dear compassionate souls,
chuffed.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Refaat Alareer’s family is struggling. They returned to find their home demolished. If you have quoted a line from his poetry, retweeted something, or mourned his death, please support his family today. chuffed.org/project/1093...
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✨Newly minted MSHRBC Scholar Dr. Farah Mawani @farahway.bsky.social was interviewed by the Faculty of Health in their inaugural Research Spotlight Q&A. Learn about her career and current research projects here: tinyurl.com/bddpch6v
Research Spotlight with Farah Mawani - Faculty of Health - University of Victoria
Farah Mawani’s research is rooted in her lived experience and expertise as a social and psychiatric epidemiologist with more than 20 years of global, national, and local experience in research and sol...
www.uvic.ca
September 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
✨Newly minted MSHRBC Scholar Dr. Farah Mawani @farahway.bsky.social was interviewed by the Faculty of Health in their inaugural Research Spotlight Q&A. Learn about her career and current research projects here: tinyurl.com/bddpch6v
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We are THRILLED to share this fantastic news! Four IALH Research Fellows were named @healthresearchbc.bsky.social MSHRBC Scholars! Their work is critical for increasing access to safe, equitable healthcare for diverse populations. Congratulations!🎉Read about their research here: tinyurl.com/ypzrwf62
September 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We are THRILLED to share this fantastic news! Four IALH Research Fellows were named @healthresearchbc.bsky.social MSHRBC Scholars! Their work is critical for increasing access to safe, equitable healthcare for diverse populations. Congratulations!🎉Read about their research here: tinyurl.com/ypzrwf62
“When you take a stand there might be a price to pay, and sometimes you have to pay that price.” Powerful message from my aunt Nurjehan Mawani based on her experience of our community’s inclusive schools challenging structural racism in Kenya @victoriaforum.bsky.social @uvic.ca #VictoriaForum #UViic
August 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“When you take a stand there might be a price to pay, and sometimes you have to pay that price.” Powerful message from my aunt Nurjehan Mawani based on her experience of our community’s inclusive schools challenging structural racism in Kenya @victoriaforum.bsky.social @uvic.ca #VictoriaForum #UViic
I'm very excited to be welcoming my aunt Nurjehan Mawani to my Victoria home for the @victoriaforum.bsky.social. Join me on Aug 24 (rev) to hear her share her experience in global leadership roles including Former Diplomatic Representative, Kyrgyzstan & Afghanistan @akdn.bsky.social #VictoriaForum
🎤 Meet the Speaker
Pleased to welcome Nurjehan Mawani C.M., lawyer, diplomat, and champion for justice and gender equity, to Newcomers, Shared Futures and Building Communities on Aug 25 at #VictoriaForum2025!
📍 University of Victoria 🌐 victoriaforum.ca #GlobalDialogue
Pleased to welcome Nurjehan Mawani C.M., lawyer, diplomat, and champion for justice and gender equity, to Newcomers, Shared Futures and Building Communities on Aug 25 at #VictoriaForum2025!
📍 University of Victoria 🌐 victoriaforum.ca #GlobalDialogue
August 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I'm very excited to be welcoming my aunt Nurjehan Mawani to my Victoria home for the @victoriaforum.bsky.social. Join me on Aug 24 (rev) to hear her share her experience in global leadership roles including Former Diplomatic Representative, Kyrgyzstan & Afghanistan @akdn.bsky.social #VictoriaForum
This is great! I encourage @uvichealth.bsky.social students to join. I learned so much from journal clubs as a student.
📚 New opportunity for @uvic.ca students this fall!
Join IALH’s Journal Club—an opportunity to connect with peers, discuss research, and build community.
👉 Info Session: Fri, Sept 26 | 9–10am | R Hut Boardroom
Coffee, tea, fruit & bagels provided ☕🥯
#UVic #IALH #JournalClub #HealthyAging
Join IALH’s Journal Club—an opportunity to connect with peers, discuss research, and build community.
👉 Info Session: Fri, Sept 26 | 9–10am | R Hut Boardroom
Coffee, tea, fruit & bagels provided ☕🥯
#UVic #IALH #JournalClub #HealthyAging
August 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is great! I encourage @uvichealth.bsky.social students to join. I learned so much from journal clubs as a student.
Have you ever had to put "death threats" in the Impacts on Progress of Research section of your grant applications? Peers without lived experience of racism who review our work need to understand the extreme contexts we work in without institutional acknowledgement or support.
August 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Have you ever had to put "death threats" in the Impacts on Progress of Research section of your grant applications? Peers without lived experience of racism who review our work need to understand the extreme contexts we work in without institutional acknowledgement or support.
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BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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"The sounds of weeping mothers curled on cold concrete floors echoed through the walls at the federal immigration processing center in Broadview, keeping Gladis Chavez awake for most of the night." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...
‘Dehumanizing’: Inside the Broadview ICE facility where immigrants sleep on cold concrete
An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that immigration detainees have been held for days at the processing center in west suburban Broadview.
www.chicagotribune.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"The sounds of weeping mothers curled on cold concrete floors echoed through the walls at the federal immigration processing center in Broadview, keeping Gladis Chavez awake for most of the night." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...
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NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide.
#MarchForHumanity
(🎥 Ema Franklin)
#MarchForHumanity
(🎥 Ema Franklin)
August 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide.
#MarchForHumanity
(🎥 Ema Franklin)
#MarchForHumanity
(🎥 Ema Franklin)
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Thousands of French people held a massive rally and march in Paris, standing against Israel's genocide in Gaza, they chanted "Nous sommes la résistance (We are the resistance)" #FreePalestine #3E
August 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thousands of French people held a massive rally and march in Paris, standing against Israel's genocide in Gaza, they chanted "Nous sommes la résistance (We are the resistance)" #FreePalestine #3E
Thank you to my colleague Dr. Roberto De Vogli and his colleagues for this important call to action for scholars and health professionals. It is impossible to stay silent as a human and as a public health scientist. #publichealth #healthequity #humanrights
An important and eloquent letter from our friend and colleague, Roberto De Vogli - please read and share
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency
in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of
malnutrition-related deaths...
www.thelancet.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Thank you to my colleague Dr. Roberto De Vogli and his colleagues for this important call to action for scholars and health professionals. It is impossible to stay silent as a human and as a public health scientist. #publichealth #healthequity #humanrights
Please read this beautiful profile of my cherished friend and @yorkuniversity.bsky.social scientist Dr. Sheila Colla @savewildbees.bsky.social in the @thestar.com. www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...
‘Sheila just went for it’: York University scientist Sheila Colla remembered as a fierce advocate to save wild bees
Colla, 43, died Sunday of cancer. She successfully fought for the rusty-patched bumblebee to become the first bee listed as an endangered species in Canada and the U.S.
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July 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Please read this beautiful profile of my cherished friend and @yorkuniversity.bsky.social scientist Dr. Sheila Colla @savewildbees.bsky.social in the @thestar.com. www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...
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When I started researching wild bees, Sheila consistently offered advice. If I needed to vent about academic colleagues, I could count on her for a listening ear (& appropriate amount of justified anger!). When choosing between what is easy & what is right, I often think about what Sheila would do.
July 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When I started researching wild bees, Sheila consistently offered advice. If I needed to vent about academic colleagues, I could count on her for a listening ear (& appropriate amount of justified anger!). When choosing between what is easy & what is right, I often think about what Sheila would do.
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Sheila was a remarkable friend, colleague, mentor, neighbour, and mother, who gave so much to all of her communities. I looked up to her immensely as a colleague who thought deeply about the way we do science and who we include and uphold. She will be deeply missed. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...
Donate to Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment, organized by Anna Penner
There is a good chance that you already know Sheila Colla: she is a brillian… Anna Penner needs your support for Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment
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July 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Sheila was a remarkable friend, colleague, mentor, neighbour, and mother, who gave so much to all of her communities. I looked up to her immensely as a colleague who thought deeply about the way we do science and who we include and uphold. She will be deeply missed. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...
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The conservation science community lost an amazing soul--Dr. Sheila Colla, the leading expert on wild bees and wild-domestic bee interactions in North America. Sheila was a tremendous advocate for nature and environmental justice. 🧪
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Obituary information for Sheila Colla
View Sheila Colla's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.
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July 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The conservation science community lost an amazing soul--Dr. Sheila Colla, the leading expert on wild bees and wild-domestic bee interactions in North America. Sheila was a tremendous advocate for nature and environmental justice. 🧪
www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca/obituaries/S...
www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca/obituaries/S...
I’m not ready to talk about Dr. Sheila Colla @savewildbees.bsky.social in the past tense. Her presence and voice are so vivid in my mind. She was the friend who stayed in closest touch with me when I moved from Toronto to Victoria, chatting with me as if I had never left.
July 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I’m not ready to talk about Dr. Sheila Colla @savewildbees.bsky.social in the past tense. Her presence and voice are so vivid in my mind. She was the friend who stayed in closest touch with me when I moved from Toronto to Victoria, chatting with me as if I had never left.
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Alberta is failing on public health.
In week 24 of the year- also known as epidemiological week-, we accounted for 125 of Canada’s 221 new measles cases.
That is more than half.
We have the expertise to do better, but the UCP government is weakening our public health system.
In week 24 of the year- also known as epidemiological week-, we accounted for 125 of Canada’s 221 new measles cases.
That is more than half.
We have the expertise to do better, but the UCP government is weakening our public health system.
June 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Alberta is failing on public health.
In week 24 of the year- also known as epidemiological week-, we accounted for 125 of Canada’s 221 new measles cases.
That is more than half.
We have the expertise to do better, but the UCP government is weakening our public health system.
In week 24 of the year- also known as epidemiological week-, we accounted for 125 of Canada’s 221 new measles cases.
That is more than half.
We have the expertise to do better, but the UCP government is weakening our public health system.
Listening to Dr. Rheanna Robinson give her @uvic.ca Provost's Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture, "Disability needs to be decolonized: How Indigenous knowledges can inform inclusive pedagogies of practice". Looking forward to learning from her. events.uvic.ca/lti/event/98... #uvic
Dr. Rheanna Robinson | Disability needs to be decolonized: How Indigenous knowledges can inform inclusive pedagogies of practice
Disability needs to be decolonized: How Indigenous knowledges can inform inclusive pedagogies of practice This lecture is sponsored ...
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June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Listening to Dr. Rheanna Robinson give her @uvic.ca Provost's Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture, "Disability needs to be decolonized: How Indigenous knowledges can inform inclusive pedagogies of practice". Looking forward to learning from her. events.uvic.ca/lti/event/98... #uvic
Beautiful experience of my day: Listening to this stunning music by Fatoumata Diawara as I write and birds outside joining the chorus. youtu.be/esLp4HfcBSE?... #nowplaying
Fatoumata Diawara - Wililé - feat. Toumani Diabaté (Official Audio)
YouTube video by World Circuit Records
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June 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Beautiful experience of my day: Listening to this stunning music by Fatoumata Diawara as I write and birds outside joining the chorus. youtu.be/esLp4HfcBSE?... #nowplaying
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Going after medical journals is the next step it seems.
Determining where science can be published limits dissemination and limits transparency
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Determining where science can be published limits dissemination and limits transparency
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
www.politico.com
May 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Going after medical journals is the next step it seems.
Determining where science can be published limits dissemination and limits transparency
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Determining where science can be published limits dissemination and limits transparency
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...