My interest in collaborative mental healthcare comes from examining my own context.  The challenges I faced in my own environment allowed me to build a critical perspective on society and health. Over time these challenges have cultivated a career goal to better comprehend how individual needs and society’s expectations of mental health interrelated globally. These interests motivated me to engage myself in the collaborative mental healthcare committee in which it furthered my understand and my overall perspective about mental health and healthcare.

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My commitment to this committee and to better understand what makes a society “mentally ill” drove me towards a deeper understanding of collaborative mental healthcare. Furthermore, it was a particular experience to be able to  share with other members of this committee my goals and concerns toward actively working to reform our prospects in mental health. These unique experiences helped me expand my perception towards what are mental health inequities and how can we pragmatically nullify their repercussions on a day-to-day basis.

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My main objective, as a scholar, is to better understand how social determinants of health and mental health on population level interact altogether. I want to work toward achieving a Master of Science in Public Health to research how social determinants of health affects directly and indirectly the mental health of individuals with a particular focus on socioeconomic inequities in Canada. My ultimate goal is to build a career in policy with a governmental or a non-profit organization. In particular, I hope to work on public health issues and matters in the province of Quebec. Quebec mental health issues and socioeconomic inequities always been the forefront of my life. I hope that my future graduate studies and the pillars of knowledge and experience in research, community and policy that I acquired will help me address these socioeconomic mental health inequities in my future career and research.