Mind The Disruption
Episodes
Disrupting for safe and dignified migrant farmworker housing
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How can public health work with migrant farmworkers to ensure healthy and just housing conditions? Listen to this episode to learn about how our curre...
Disrupting for healthy and just public green spaces
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a public green space healthy for everyone? Listen to this episode to hear how Dr. Nadha Hassen is disrupting the status quo through interse...
Introducing Mind the Disruption Season 4
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! In the fourth season of Mind the Disruption, we focus on healthy and just places and spaces. We’ll explore topics such as the natura...
Disrupting for well-being with RECOVER Edmonton
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In response to rising tensions and unmet needs in its downtown core, the City of Edmonton’s RECOVER Urban Wellbeing team and partners questioned ass...
Disrupting for well-being with Engage Nova Scotia (Part 2)
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Engage Nova Scotia is working to better measure, understand and improve well-being for all Nova Scotians through a large Quality of Life survey, acces...
Disrupting for well-being with Engage Nova Scotia (Part 1)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Engage Nova Scotia is working to better measure, understand and improve well-being for all Nova Scotians through a large Quality of Life survey, acces...
Disrupting for Reproductive Justice
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many public health practitioners provide a range of supports focused on sexual and reproductive health. Listen to this episode to hear about how Dr. S...
Disrupting for Health Care for All
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Check out this episode to learn from Chloé Cébron and Shezeen Suleman who are part of a growing movement mobilizing for the right to health care for...
Disrupting for Racial & Climate Justice
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Director of the Community Climate Resilience Lab, Dr. Imara Rolston recognizes that the climate crisis is a health emergency that will disproportio...
Disrupting for Disability Without Poverty
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript (PDF or download Word document)As the National Director of Disability Without Poverty, Rabia Khedr is building a vibrant intersectional mov...
Disrupting for African Nova Scotian Food Sovereignty
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wendie Wilson is a mother, educator, artist, writer, community advocate and a member of the African Nova Scotian and Black Food Sovereignty working gr...
Disrupting Environmental Racism
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health (ENRICH) Project, Dr. Ingrid Waldron works ...
Introducing Mind the Disruption Season 2
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! In the second season of Mind the Disruption, we explore social movements for social justice: groups of people working together to build ...
Bonus Episode: Tackling weight discrimination in nutrition and public health
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Registered dietitian Lillian Yin joins us to talk about why weight discrimination is so harmful. She shares her vision for a nourishing future of publ...
Bonus episode: Building health equity-focused public health organizations
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season 1 of Mind the Disruption was a success! We’ve decided to release bonus content from three episodes. This standalone episode features more fro...
Bonus episode: Taking intersectoral action to drive decent work
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season 1 of Mind the Disruption was a success! We’ve decided to release bonus content from three episodes. This standalone episode features more fro...
Disrupting Colonialism for Two-Spirit Health
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harlan Pruden is Nehiyô/First Nations Cree, Two-Spirit, and a dedicated disruptor of settler colonialism, homophobia, and transphobia with the goal o...
Disrupting Food Insecurity & Fat Phobia
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Taylor, the former head of FoodShare and a life-long anti-poverty activist, dismantles the barriers – include fat phobia and weight bias – th...
Disrupting Migrant Work
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarom Rho is a migrant and a community organizer who unites with other migrant workers to mobilize for full and permanent immigration status for all i...
Disrupting the Status Quo in Public Health
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Samiya Abdi has trained thousands of public health practitioners to recognize the power that each of us has to do something different in the face of h...
Disrupting Whiteness
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh has been raising tough conversations about Whiteness, White Supremacy and racism for over ten years in a public health field that oft...
Disrupting Gig Work
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Scott delivers food on her bike in Toronto and organizes with other gig workers to fight against the challenging – and often unsafe and har...
Trailer
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Mind the Disruption. This is a show about people who refuse to accept things as they are. It's about people pushing for better health for a...