Benjamin, Kayla - Centre for Global Social Policy

Kayla Benjamin is a third year Ph.D. student in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and a Vanier Scholar. Her research interests include the gendered dimensions of care work, women’s health, and social (including health) policy. Before her Ph.D., Kayla received an Honours B.MSc. in Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences at Western University and an MSc in Public Health and Health Systems from the University of Waterloo. She is currently working as a Research Assistant on the Care Economies in Context project.

Kayla is the lead RA for the Caring across Generations project. Outside of her studies, Kayla works with missINFORMED a national non-profit organization she co-founded in 2020. missINFORMED (missinformed.ca) is a youth-led health education and advocacy platform that crafts resources from an intersectional and community-informed lens.