From Disclosure to Job Demands: Practical Tools for Employees with Disabilities

Date: Thursday December 3rd 2026 

Time: 10-11am PDT  

Location: Zoom webinar 

Accessibility: American Sign Language interpretation and Zoom autogenerated captions will be available. Please contact The Centre for Workplace Accessibility (workplace.accessibility@ubc.ca) or Access Coordinator Alexandria Dupont (alexandria.dupont@ubc.ca) if you have any additional access requests.   

Speaker: Monique Gignac, Institute for Work and Health 

Topic: From Disclosure to Job Demands: Practical Tools for Employees with Disabilities 

Event description: The Centre for Workplace Accessibility, in recognition of the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, welcomes Dr. Monique Gignac of the Institute for Work & Health who will provide an overview of The Job Demands and Accommodation Planning (JDAPT) and Decision-Support for Communicating about Invisible Disabilities that are Episodic (DCIDE) tools and their role in supporting workplace accessibility and disability inclusion. 

Speaker Bio: Dr. Monique Gignac is scientific director and senior scientist at the Institute for Work & Health. She is also a professor at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. 

Gignac’s research expertise is in the areas of health and social psychology, including health models of disability. Her research examines psychosocial factors like stress, coping, adaptation and communication, and their importance in understanding the impact of chronic diseases on the lives of adults across the life course. Of particular interest is research on workplace communication, privacy, support and accommodation needs among individuals living with chronic, episodic conditions.