GP066: Palestine Series Part 3 with Sandra Ballantyne and Amira Dirie
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GP065: Palestine Series Part 2 with Rachel Coghlan
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GP064: Palestine Series Part 1 with Rachael Moses
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In the Palestine Series, we sit down with three physiotherapists from Canada, the UK, and Australia, and a psychotherapist from Canada to explore their experiences with anti-Palestinian racism in healthcare systems. Together, we reflect on our personal and professional connections to Palestine, how the ongoing occupation across Palestine and ongoing genocide against Palestinians living in Gaza shape not only lives on the ground but also clinical and rehab spaces globally. In this series, we speak openly about discrimination, advocacy, and responsibility. We examine how politics enters...
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GP063: Health Justice Series with Stephanie Lurch
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This episode we welcome back Steph Lurch to talk about her recent 30 day Health Justice Series, that has been taking place across several of her accounts. If you liked this conversation, head to to check out the rest of the content. You can find out more about Steph Lurch here: Website: TikTok: medicine.needs.medicine Art Work as part of the Health Justice Series: Charmaine Lurch at Bio: Stephanie Lurch (BScPT, MEd, Doctoral student) is a physiotherapist, educator, and health justice scholar with more than 30 years of experience at the intersection of...
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GP062: Introducing Zeina Abu-Jurji, New Our Co-Host
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GP061: Discussing Environmental Physiotherapy with 3 University of Manitoba Students
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GP060: Understanding Physiotherapy from the Perspectives of Non-Indigenous Black Peoples in Australia with Adelaide Rusinga and Nathalia Costa
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This episode, which was recorded in early 2024, features two physiotherapists, Adelaide Rusinga and Dr. Nathalia Costa, who share the learnings from their paper titled "Exploring the Systemic Structures that Affect Access to Physical Therapist Services for Non-Indigenous Black People in Australia." Their research set out to explore the perspectives of non-Indigenous Black people when it comes to the physiotherapy profession in Australia. We discuss the intersection of race, whiteness and the physiotherapy profession, and ways to move towards a more culturally aware and appropriate profession....
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GP059: World Indigenous Physiotherapy Alliance with Ray Gates
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Today’s guest is Ray Gates, an Aboriginal Australian (Bundjalung) physiotherapist with over 20 years experience as a PT and with Indigenous health. He was the first Aboriginal PT to become a member and later Chairperson of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s (then) Indigenous Health Committee. He was a founder of the first Indigenous Physiotherapy Support Network in Australia, which later became the National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Physiotherapists (NAATSIP). He has been involved with Indigenous health both in Australia and around the world in a variety...
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GP058: Exploring Critical Consciousness with Stephanie Lurch
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In today’s episode, the co-hosts interview Stephanie Lurch, who is a storyteller, activist, leader and physiotherapist. Stephanie discusses her keynote address at the CPA National Congress in 2024 entitled “Manifesto of a Critical Consciousness”, and so much more in this inspiring episode.
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GP057: Memoirs of a Global Health Physiotherapist
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In today’s episode, the co-hosts interview Hilary Crowley who is a physiotherapist and an author. Hilary published a travel memoir entitled “Mini Saga in South Africa” about a year that she spent working around South Africa in the 1960s. This was during apartheid which started in 1948 and continued until 1994. Her experiences there led her to follow a career in paediatrics and overseas development work. It also formed the base of her interest in politics. Her previous books include , which covers 25 years of experiences volunteering in a community based rehabilitation program in rural...
info_outlineToday's episode features Tracy Blake (she/her). The only daughter of Trinidadian immigrants, Tracy and her youngest brother were raised in the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-faith, working class neighbourhood of Rexdale in Toronto, on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Anishinabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewa, and Huron-Wendat peoples, as well as the Mississaugas of the Credit. Her 17-year clinical career includes providing acute inpatient care in the largest hospital system in Canada, community care to diverse populations ages 6 to 86 in private practice, field event coverage to athletes from over 25 sports at over 40 local, provincial, national, and international events, and whatever-was-needed as a personal support worker and case consultant in long term care facilities during COVID. Her curiosity, creativity, and commitment to professional dream-chasing has resulted in an unconventional career path that has meandered through a post-professional degree in Manipulative Therapy from Western University and a doctorate from the University of Calgary. It has included founding a section of the highest ranking sport medicine journal in the world as a junior editor, co-authoring the most recent iteration of the Canadian physiotherapy education accreditation standards, advocating for the inclusion of physiotherapists in athlete rights based policy innovation at the United Nations, and launching the Canada Games Sport Physiotherapy Leadership Program.