Ritika Goel is a Toronto-based Canadian writer, activist, professor, and family doctor known for public advocacy on social justice matters.

Early life

Goel was born in India before emigrating to Canada.

Career and advocacy

Goel is a family doctor who works for

Inner City Health Associates Inner City Health Associates (ICHA) is Canada's largest community healthcare organization for unhoused people and is based in Toronto. Organization In 2014, Inner City Health Associates' team included over 65 medical doctors, including 29 fam ...

and a member of the ''Decent Work and Health Network'' known for her advocacy around tax reform, and her encouragement of doctors to express solidarity with Palestinians. She is a professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Family and Community Medicine where she was named as the first faculty lead for social accountability.

Selected publications

As a sole author: *
The Perils of Associating 'White' with 'Privilege' in the Classroom
'' 2021, The Conversation *
Trudeau's Brownface Is a Symptom of a Much More Dangerous Disease
'' 2019, The Tyee Co-authored: * Gary Block and Ritika Goel, ''A Multi-level Approach to Treating Social Risk to Health for Health Providers'' - Chapter 3 of: ''Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities'' by James Matheson, John Patterson, Laura Neilson,

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, 2020 ISBN 9781351013895 * Goel et al.
Implementation and impact of an online tool used in primary care to improve access to financial benefits for patients: a study protocol

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2017;7:e015947

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goel, Ritika Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women activists Canadian women academics 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women physicians Academic staff of the University of Toronto Indian emigrants to Canada