2.5 Homeless Health | Medicine | Feeling Motivated with Dr. Claire Bodkin

The Global Health Collective - With a Local Edge

A sit-down chat with Dr. Claire Bodkin, an inspiring Hamilton leader and physician working to promote equity and make the world a better place.

Claire Bodkin is a queer femme, community organizer, and resident physician in Family Medicine at McMaster University. As a family doctor-in-training, her clinical and research interests are the care of people who use drugs, people who experience incarceration, and people who are queer and trans. She is a co-organizer with Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team (known as HAMSMaRT), who has been working with Hamilton’s harm reduction group Keeping Six to support the needs of people who are homeless and people who use drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic. She looks up to her Mom, her sister, and all of the rad community organizers, elders, and youth working towards collective freedom and health.