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Fevers Future

How We Respond to Infections to Come

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Chapter 5 reflects on how prepared Canada is to respond to the future infectious diseases outbreaks to come. Discussing topics including the COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary medicine’s ties to patriarchy and racism, the importance of Indigenous self-government over healthcare services, the near eradication of polio, the authors experience working in the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic, Indigenous autonomy in healthcare administration and delivery, the Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation agreements to fund an Indigenous healthcare system across their territory, the return to Indigenous systems of knowledge in medicine, and the need to continually rebuild our healthcare system to fix the problems of the past and prepare for future challenges.

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Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay

Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay is a Bengali settler living in Tio’tia:ke for over two decades. A family doctor who serves primarily in Eeyou Istchee, Baijayanta also works in Treaty 3 and 9 territories, as well as with undocumented migrants, unhoused people and queer/trans youth in the city. He is clinical faculty at the McGill Department of Family Medicine, focusing on supporting rural/low-resource practice. Mukhopadhyay also organises around issues related to extractivism, migrant rights, policing, public services and decolonizing global health within local and international networks and collectives. His previous works include A Labour of Liberation and essays in Briarpatch Magazine, Sarai Reader and Upping the Anti.