Arjumand Siddiqi
Contributing Researcher
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Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi is Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Epidemiology at University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, where she also holds the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity. Dr. Siddiqi also has appointments at University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and the Department of Sociology, as well as at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.
The focus of her research is on the analysis of racial and socioeconomic health inequities, with a particular emphasis on the policies and other structural conditions that produce these inequities, as well as those that can resolve them. Dr. Siddiqi is an alumnus of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Global Academy and former Associate Member of its Program on Successful Societies. She was also a member of the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and provides consultation to other international and governmental agencies
Dr. Siddiqi received her doctorate in Social Epidemiology from Harvard University.
Related research publications
January 19, 2021
Addressing Economic Racism in Canada’s Pandemic Response and Recovery
In the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 was said to be “the great equalizer”, impacting people across all walks of life. Now, well-documented racial health inequities for COVID-19 have proven otherwise, and it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Racial inequities have been found for nearly every health outcome. The evidence suggests that once you strip away the protection that newly-arrived immigrants initially carry, Black, Brown, and Indigenous Canadians in particular experience worse health outcomes than White Canadians.
