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The Healthy Populations Institute (HPI) is a multi-faculty research institute at Dalhousie University that aims to improve population health and health equity in Atlantic Canada and beyond by understanding and influencing the complex conditions that affect the health of communities.
We can achieve our population health goals by focusing on reducing health inequities.
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Check out our HPI welcome video to learn more about what we do.
New and Noteworthy:
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2024 Leon & Rose Zitner Prize Announcement
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The Healthy Populations Institute at Dalhousie University is proud to announce Anja McLeod, Master of Arts student, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, as the 2024 winner of the Leon & Rose Zitner Prize.
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​Anja’s extensive body of work includes community-based research, advocacy, knowledge mobilization activities and resources to address reproductive health equity, primarily among people experiencing incarceration, with a focus on the role that doulas could play in mitigating barriers to care. Her thesis, supervised by Dr. Fiona Martin (FASS) is titled: “Community-based doulas in Nova Scotia: Defining the meaning of care at the intersection of reproductive justice and biomedicine”.
Anja’s goal in conducting research is “to improve equitable health services in ways that are informed by the experiences of people who face barriers to access. Generating and translating this knowledge has the potential to influence evidence-informed policies and practices. For example, developing guidelines for family planning professionals in providing care for patients who are incarcerated; and delivering workshops for doulas and staff of community organizations to ensure they are equipped to support clients in prisons as they seek sexual and reproductive health care.”
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Land Acknowledgement:
We acknowledge the presence of the Healthy Populations Institute (Dalhousie University) in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw people, which is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship signed with the British Crown in 1725. We continually remind ourselves that the treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but, in fact, recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations. We must all take time to reflect on the inequities caused by historic and ongoing violence against, and oppression, of Indigenous peoples, as well as the African Nova Scotia community and others who have been marginalized on this land.
We are all Treaty People.