Over the past term, I was lucky enough to be able to enrol in IHHS 407: Disability and Justice. The course focused on issues disabled people encounter in the various stages through out their lives. This course took a very different approach to addressing public health issues than I was used to, largely by focusing on policy issues that disabled people encounter in ‘developed’ countries like Canada. A big overarching concept that the course tried to emphasize was what ‘justice’ actually means in the context of a disability. Before starting the course, I had incorrectly equated ‘equality’ with ‘justice’. Although the Canadian Charter for Rights and Freedoms provides legal equality to all citizens regardless of ability, it is difficult for disabled people to actually actually act on those laws. The following is what I believe to be an important description of Justice from a journal I had to write for the course: “Justice recognizes that while disabled people absolutely require equal rights that abled people have, it also recognizes that equality alone is not sufficient. Justice means going a step further and realizing that realities and real-life complexities might not make equality truly equal, and ensures that it is justly resolved”. Justice is reached when policies recognize that simply providing equal rights to disabled people is not sufficient to guarantee those rights. This learning is important as a future health professional, considering we are guaranteed to regularly influence the lives of disabled people on a daily basis.