About The Authors

Dr. Alan T. Li is a primary care physician at Regent Park Community Health Centre with over 30 years of experience working with diverse and marginalized communities to advance health equity and social justice. As the past president of the Chinese Canadian National Council, founding president of Asian Community AIDS Services and the Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment, Dr. Li has worked closely with community stakeholders on many research projects that directly resulted in the creation of innovative services and informed policy changes. These include the establishment of a compassionate medication program at the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation, immigration legal services at the HIV Legal Clinic of Ontario, multiple health literacy and community mentorship training programs, as well as a policy change in health cost threshold for immigration economic exclusion eligibility.

Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, RN, PhD, Professor and Research Chair in Urban Health, has extensive experience in critical public health and urban health promotion, including the development of access and equity policy, public health practice frameworks, and community-based capacity building programs to promote health equity. Her scholarship of teaching focuses on making visible how historical and current structural violence (re)produces ‘preventable’ health disparities. Her program of research focuses on structural determinants of health, social identities, and health practices; migration and social (dis)integration; and HIV, sexual health and mental health in diasporic and transnational communities. She leads multidisciplinary teams to design, implement and evaluate intervention studies on stigma reduction, mental health promotion and collective resilience in the Asian, Black, Latinx and MENA communities in Canada and internationally. Currently, she is leading the evaluation of CHAMPs-In-Action, a 5-year community-based program to reduce HIV stigma and promote HIV championship, and PROTECH, COVID-19 rapid response research to mitigate the negative impacts of racism, psychosocial distress and grief on Asian Canadian communities as well as reducing stress among frontline healthcare providers.

Dr. Kenneth P. Fung is a cultural psychiatrist and Clinical Director of the Asian Initiatives in Mental Health (AIM) at Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. He is also Professor and the Director of Global Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Toronto’s the Temberty Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Fung’s research, teaching, and clinical interest include cultural psychiatry, global mental health, and psychotherapy, especially Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), CBT, and mindfulness. He conducts national and international research in stigma, resilience, mental health promotion, and immigrant and refugee mental health. Dr. Fung is the current president of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC). He is highly sought after, both nationally and internationally, for his expertise as a trainer, consultant, and researcher in applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to promote mental health across diverse communities.