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'Understanding Trauma': Program Shows Doctors the Biases Indigenous Women Experience [cbc.ca]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/4/1910:51 AM

By Daniela Germano, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, October 1, 2019 An online training program is aiming to educate health-care professionals about biases Indigenous women may experience as highlighted by allegations of recent coerced sterilizations. Dr. Naana Jumah, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and assistant professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, said the idea for the program came in 2011 when she was doing her residency.

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