Physical Therapy Speaker Series - Dr. Chavon Niles

Friday, February 10, 2023 from 12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Presenter:  Dr. Chavon Niles

Topic: “Disrupting Dominant Discourses in Physical Therapy/Rehabilitation Using Critical Disability Studies and Health Equity”

Dr. Chavon Niles is a Guyanese Canadian researcher, educator, and advocate committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Dr. Niles has a MA degree in Critical Disability Studies (York University) and her PhD (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Dept of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto). Chavon’s doctoral thesis explored the experiences of racialized immigrant youth with disabilities living in the Greater Toronto Area to better understand how they navigated education, rehab/health, and social services drawing on critical social theories. She was also the inaugural Program Manager, Faculty Development and EDI at SickKids, where she provided leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of EDI strategic frameworks and training across the hospital. At the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, she led the national community education program to strengthen the capacity of service providers working with immigrants and refugees with disabilities. Dr. Niles’s academic and community research and teaching intersect as she makes visible systems of inequities embedded in rehab, health and social services that further invisiblize the experiences of underserved communities.   

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