Ritika Goel is a Toronto-based Canadian writer, activist, professor, and family doctor known for public advocacy on social justice matters.
Early life Goel was born in India before emigrating to Canada.
Career and advocacy Goel is a family doctor who works for Inner City Health Associates and a member of the Decent Work and Health Network known for her advocacy around tax reform, and her encouragement of doctors to express solidarity with Palestinians. She is a professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Family and Community Medicine where she was named as the first faculty lead for social accountability.
Selected publications As a sole author:
Trudeau's Brownface Is a Symptom of a Much More Dangerous Disease, 2019, The Tyee Co-authored:
Gary Block and Ritika Goel, A Multi-level Approach to Treating Social Risk to Health for Health Providers - Chapter 3 of: Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities by James Matheson, John Patterson, Laura Neilson, CRC Press, 2020 ISBN 9781351013895 Goel et al., Implementation and impact of an online tool used in primary care to improve access to financial benefits for patients: a study protocol The BMJ 2017;7:e015947
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External links
Ritika Goel - Twitter