CARM: Building Partnerships with ACB Communities Across Ontario and Online

This presentation is part of the CDTRP 2024 Patient, Family and Donor Research Forum.
Caribbean African Regenerative Medicine (CARM) Program: Building Partnerships with ACB Communities Across Ontario and Online
Dr.Jacqui Getfield is the Project Manager of the Caribbean African Regenerative Medicine(CARM) project. Dr. Getfield is an adjunct professor in the Department of GraduateStudies at York University. She is the founder of Mothers United in Mediating Mutual Alliances. Through MUMMA, mothers across Canada (and internationally) come together to discuss issues that are affecting them and their children within education and health spaces. Dr. Getfield holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Social Justice Education. Her research interests focus on family engagement, home-school partnerships, as well as concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging (DEIAB) and diasporic living. Active in the Canadian Black community for decades, Dr. Jacqui Getfield is a founding member of the Jamaican Diaspora Canada Foundation; and she was the inaugural ExecutiveDirector of the Alliance of Jamaican Alumni Association (AJAA).
Osa Osadolor is a third-year Biomedical Science student at theUniversity of Guelph, with a minor in Black Canadian Studies. She's passionate about exploring the intersection of race and medicine, aiming to integrate this understanding into her future healthcare career.
Hayden John is an incoming medical student at Queen’s School of Medicine. He is a CARM Project Team Member and student with the Kidney Health Education Research Group. He is passionate about knowledge translation of patient experiences andis currently examining barriers to living donor kidney transplantation among African,Caribbean and Black (ACB) Canadians.