Alex Anawati

#NorthernOntario CFPC-EM MD. #SocialAccountability lead @arcandcentre. @SAFEforHealth Institutions Project. Associate Prof @thenosm. Tweets = my opinion.

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Could #SocialAccountability flow from #MedEd ➡️ practice of #medicine ➡️ service delivery?

Shared social accountability strategies can transform entire #healthcare systems towards #equity-oriented outcomes focused on local population needs.

Read more: https://t.co/Ae5J1j7EMy

[SAFE for Health Institutions Project @SAFEforHealth]

‘There is a need for tools that support #SocialAccountability as an #equity-oriented #HealthPolicy strategy in #healthcare.’

So we built a tool & published about it in @BMJ_Open 😁 building on what’s been done in #MedEd.

https://t.co/BvApVFvyCZ

@THEnetcomm @nosm_cfsa @thenosm

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Been doing these lectures for @thenosm 1st years learners for a while now … still get excited to showcase why there’s nothing really that matters more in medicine than social accountability. #MedEd

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Numbers don't move people. Stories do.

French is one of the most beautiful languages in the world.

It deserves more than survival status in our health care systems. 🔥

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Monday night was a good night.

I presented to Francophone health leaders setting the strategic direction for Ontario's CPSSF. Social accountability, health equity, AI woven through the stories of Marie, Aminata, and Étienne. Three Franco-Ontarians. True front-line stories.

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Are we unintentionally designing inequity into AI? Funding flows to speed, scale, performance.

Much less to: digital divide; rural/low-resource settings; equity & trust; data sovereignty (esp. Indigenous); representative data…

If inclusion isn’t funded, inequity gets scaled.

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

https://t.co/BOeEQVMJNb

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

If cultural identity flows freely through healthcare, outcomes improve.

Undermine it, people risk losing the commitment to care for their own well-being.

There’s a gap in what we know & what we’ve built.

Cultural safety is the approach.

Cultural continuity is the outcome.

[goma @soigomaa]

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Healthcare is being asked to solve problems it doesn’t control.

No housing or shelter? Overnight ER stay. Gaps in social supports? Hospital admission.

Are we designing health systems to deliver care or to absorb policy failures elsewhere?

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

$5M investment in an Indigenous Health Research Circle @thenosm @arcandcentre. 🙏

This will create space for Indigenous led research, ways of knowing, knowledge systems and Indigenous solutions critical for supporting Indigenous health and well-being.

https://t.co/kiCmBpQijw

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

This isn’t a Toronto issue. It’s a systems issue.

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Worth saying out loud:

Emergency departments aren’t becoming shelters by choice.

They’re responding to a gap.

The gap is created because housing and shelter systems can’t respond in real time.

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

If health systems are catching people slipping through cracks in housing & shelter policy, we have a problem.

Some Toronto hospitals shelter unhoused people to avoid sending them into the cold.

This is not a ‘fringe’ Toronto issue — it happens when unmet needs reach the ED.

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

If health systems are catching people slipping through cracks in housing & shelter policy, we have a problem.

Some Toronto hospitals shelter unhoused people to avoid sending them into the cold.

This is not a ‘fringe’ Toronto issue — it happens when unmet needs reach the ED.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

These Toronto hospitals are quietly sheltering homeless patients themselves to avoid discharging them into the cold https://t.co/FFgoj1hbue

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Ontario’s homelessness crisis is worsening — nearly 85,000 people, with the fastest rise in rural and Northern communities.

When it’s cold out (and it’s been cold 🥶), housing policy gaps show up as repeat ER visits, exposure-related harm, and desperate pleas for warmth.

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

@NGH0901 Appreciate you sharing that — feeling it firsthand changes how you see the system.

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

I’ve worked ER, inner-city primary care, and academic medicine for a while now.

I've learned that the biggest gap in our health system isn’t knowledge.

It’s that people designing policy rarely see who they fail.

Am I right?

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

Front-line care changes how you see “system design.”

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

My dad, Dr. Jean Anawati - the original, still paving the roads for Francophones from rural Northern Ontario communities to get to and through medical school. 👏👏👏

@uOttawa @uOttawaMed

https://t.co/AARnlAqqst

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

For the past 10+ years I’ve had the privilege of giving a lecture to 1st year medical students @thenosm on the importance of #SocialAccountability in #medicine.

Trying to convince them that there is nothing really that matters more…

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

https://t.co/hXOcBKWk5r

[Alex Anawati @alexanawati]

🙏 @CBCSudbury for marking @thenosm's 20th year.

Where would we be without this #MedSchool?🧐 Well, about👉🏼1,000 less MD graduates and hundreds less in #NorthernOntario.💡 20 years on, its hard not to see just how special our med school really is.🥹

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