Our Mission
Building bridges between Black patients and Black physicians to advance trust, representation, and health equity across Alberta.
The Case for Culturally Responsive Care
Black Canadians continue to experience significant disparities in health outcomes, including in areas such as cardiovascular health, diabetes, maternal health, mental health, and access to preventive care. These disparities are not inevitable. They are shaped by systemic inequities, including barriers within the healthcare system itself.
Research suggests that racial and cultural concordance between patients and physicians can improve trust, communication, patient satisfaction, preventive care uptake, and engagement with treatment recommendations.
At Black Health Connect Alberta, we believe that connecting Black Albertans with Black physicians is not only a matter of comfort. It is a matter of health equity, trust, and access to care.
Health Equity
Every Albertan deserves access to care that respects their identity, culture, and lived experience.
Representation
Seeing a physician who shares your background can build trust, improve communication, and help patients feel more understood.
Community
We celebrate and uplift Black physicians who contribute meaningfully to the health of Albertans.
Advocacy
We support efforts to increase Black representation in Alberta’s medical schools, hospitals, clinics, and health leadership spaces.
Black Health in Alberta
Alberta’s Black community is diverse, growing, and vibrant. Yet many Black Albertans report feeling dismissed, unheard, or culturally misunderstood in healthcare settings. Black Health Connect Alberta was established to be part of the solution: making it easier for Black patients to find physicians who understand the importance of cultural context, while celebrating the Black physicians who practise across our province.
Physician profiles are based on publicly available information and/or physician-submitted details. Physicians may request updates or removal at any time by contacting jsieusah@ualberta.ca.
Jared Sieusahai, MPH — Founder
Public Health Advocate, Community Builder & Health Equity Advocate
Black Health Connect Alberta was founded by Jared Sieusahai, a Trinidadian-Canadian Master’s of Public Health graduate and community organizer based in Edmonton, Alberta. Jared built this directory from a simple but urgent conviction: that Black Albertans deserve to see themselves reflected in the physicians who care for them, and that the extraordinary Black doctors practising across this province deserve to be found.
Drawing on his background in public health and his lived experience as a Black Canadian navigating Alberta’s healthcare system, Jared identified a critical gap: there was no centralized, publicly accessible resource connecting Black patients with Black physicians in Alberta. He set out to fill it by researching physicians, developing detailed profiles, and building a platform that now lists over 90 Black physicians across 19 Alberta communities.
Jared’s work is rooted in the evidence that culturally responsive care can strengthen trust, communication, patient satisfaction, and engagement with preventive care. For Jared, this work is not abstract. It is about helping Black Albertans feel seen, heard, and respected when seeking care. Black Health Connect Alberta is his contribution to a healthier, more connected, and more equitable Alberta.
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