MSc in Public Health Guest Speaker Dr. Ian Mosby
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, MSc in Public Health
Guest Speaker: Dr. Ian Mosby
Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Ian Mosby is a historian of food, health and colonialism with a PhD from York University in Toronto, Ontario. In 2013, his article in the journal Social History, on the history of nutrition research and human biomedical experimentation in Indigenous communities and residential schools during the 1940s and 1950s received widespread international media attention. Ian has written on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the history of nutrition education and research in Canada, to the history of food, colonialism and government efforts to ‘modernize’ Indigenous diets in Canada during the twentieth century.
Truth, Reconciliation and the Legacy
of Hunger and Malnutrition in Residential Schools
Abstract: Dr. Mosby will be discussing the legacy of hunger, malnutrition & nutrition experimentation in residential schools, particularly as they relate to contemporary health problems that disproportionately impact Indigenous communities.
Thursday, 9 November 2017
4 pm
McIntyre Medical Building
3655 promenade Sir William Osler – Meakins Room 521