Kate Jongbloed is an epidemiologist and a senior scientist for Population and Public Health at BCCDC. She is also an adjunct professor at University of Victoria’s School of Public Health and Social Policy and an associate with Qoqoq Consulting Ltd.
Dr. Jongbloed’s research focuses on documenting and responding to the impacts of white supremacy, settler colonialism, and Indigenous-specific racism on health and wellness.
Dr. Jongbloed is a white occupier living on the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and Səlíq lwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is an epidemiologist and mixed methods health researcher with 15+ years of experience documenting and responding to the impacts of settler colonialism on health and wellness. Recently, she completed a two-year CIHR Health Systems Impact Post-Doctoral Fellowship mentored by Dr. Danièle Behn Smith in the BC Office of the Provincial Health Officer. She is currently a senior scientist at the BC Centre for Disease Control working to grow and "unlearning and undoing white supremacy and Indigenous specific racism lab" (U&U Lab) for population and public health in BC.
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