Deep End Canada Learning Series
February 9, 2026
Deep End Canada aims to support members by hosting an ongoing Learning Series, to which we will invite speakers to discuss topics such as health equity, primary health care, social data and use, community data governance, anti-poverty organizing, advocacy, and taking action on the social determinants of health.
In our second session, we will hear from a panel of family physicians and members of the Health Equity Questionnaire Data Working Group at the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team in Toronto. The panel, moderated by Dr. Archna Gupta, will include Dr. Noor Ramji, Nassim Vahidi-Williams, and Talia Levitt, about their work collecting and using sociodemographic data in primary care researching community data governance in primary care settings, followed by a Q&A.
The presentation section (~30min) will be recorded and uploaded as an Upstream Lab YouTube video. The Q&A section in the second half will not be recorded.
Learning Series: Community governance of demographic and social needs data: Lessons from the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team
Speakers: Dr. Noor Ramji, Nassim Vahidi-Williams and Talia Levitt
Moderator: Dr. Archna Gupta
Learning objectives:
- Understand the purpose of community data governance
- Describe the experiences of St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team collecting and managing demographic and social needs data
- Identify three practical steps your team could take to initiate community data governance
Resources:
- SPARK Tool: Screening for Poverty and Related Social Determinants and Intervening to Improve Knowledge of and Links to Resources
- Advancing Health Equity Through Primary Care: Protocol for the Spread, Scale, and Multimethod Developmental Evaluation of the Deep End Canada Network
- Deep End Canada
Event details:
February 9, 2026
12 p.m. ET
Zoom
