Our Kids' Health: Delivering culturally adapted, evidence-based, and accessible health information

Our Kids' Health: Delivering culturally adapted, evidence-based, and accessible health information via social media to improve outcomes in equity-deserving communities
Description: In this session, participants will learn how access to culturally relevant, evidence-based, and accessible health information can be leveraged to improve outcomes in families from equity-deserving communities. Participants will learn about the Our Kids’ Health Network, a collection of social media channels that reaches over 815,000 families worldwide. We will share lessons learned from scaling up our model to different communities, and insight from community members about how open access to health information that reflects their community priorities has led to increased empowerment when making healthcare decisions for their families.
Speakers:
Dr. Ripudaman Singh Minhas, Developmental Pediatrician, Women's and Children's Health Program, Research Lead, Department of Pediatrics, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto
Dr. Ripudaman Singh Minhas is a Developmental Paediatrician with the Women’s and Children’s Health Program at St. Michael’s Hospital and an Associate Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Pediatrics. His research interests are in the developmental behaviour, disability, and rehabilitation of children in urban settings and in newcomer immigrant and refugee families. He is currently working to develop interventions to support the developmental potential of children in the unique context of their social determinants of health and inequity. His team uses Community-Based Participatory Research principles to guide the co-creation and implementation of family-based interventions and the evolution of health systems. Dr. Minhas’s current focus is on supporting parenting in communities experiencing marginalization. This includes the Maple Circle program, which aims to support the parenting journey of families of refugee background, and “Our Kids Health”, a social media-based health literacy program to support families.