Csilla Kalocsai

Dr. Kalocsai’s work aims to advance research knowledge and practice on power, equity, and access in health professions education and care. She relies on critical, decolonial, and socio-cultural theories and participatory, ethnographic and narrative research approaches 1) to explore the possibilities and limits of social justice efforts in academic medicine; 2) to understand how race and other vectors of social difference are made meaningful in various healthcare and educational contexts; 3) to study racialized and marginalized learners’ and populations’ access to health professions education and care; and 4) to examine the intended and unintended consequences of dominant concepts and discourses in biomedicine. The ultimate goal of Csilla’s research is to foster a more equitable, diverse, inclusive, accessible and culturally safe learning and care environment.

Education

• B.A with Honours., 1997, Cultural Anthropology, Lóránd Eötvös University, Hungary
• MPhil, 2000, Gender and Culture, Open University, UK
• PhD, 2010, Anthropology, Yale University, USA

Appointments & Affiliations

• Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
• ACMS Professor in Education Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Associate Director, Sunnybrook’s Hub for Applied Research in Education (SHARE), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Assistant (Status-Only) Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
• Associate (Restricted) Graduate Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
• Cross-Appointed Researcher, The Wilson Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and University Health Network
• Collaborator Scientist, Department of Addiction, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health