Members

List of current members

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The Indigenous Women’s Health Research Coalition is composed of First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Indigenous women, two-spirit scholars, and researchers from universities and institutions across Canada.

We support the development of a National Women’s Health Framework that responds to the unique and diverse contexts, needs and priorities of Indigenous individuals, families, and communities.

Membership is available to Indigenous Researchers focused on women’s health in Canada.

Angela Mashford-Pringle

Associate Professor/Division Head/SSHRC Tier 1 CRC First Nations Wholism, Health and Wellbeing

www.amplabresearch.com

Affiliation

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Research Focus

First Nations women's health; culture; language; land-based learning; Indigenous education; Indigenous policy

Anita Benoit

Assistant Professor

www.anitacbenoit.com/

Affiliation

University of Toronto Scarborough

Research Focus

Indigenous women's health

Anita Lafferty

Assistant Professor

www.auroradragonfly.com

Affiliation

University of Alberta

Research Focus

On the Land, curriculum, Arctic, co-production, matriarch wisdom

Brittany Bingham

Assistant Professor

indigenousequitylab.org/

Affiliation

University of British Columbia

Research Focus

Indigenous Women's Health

Carol Many Chief

Holistic Practitioner, co-owner

www.ahealthyhope.ca/

Affiliation

A Healthy Hope Integrated Care

Research Focus

Trauma scars, and Suicide prevention

Caroline Tait

Professor

profiles.ucalgary.ca/caroline-tait

Affiliation

University of Calgary

Research Focus

Metis and First Nations, organ donation and transplantation, mental and addictions health, reproductive health, Metis research and data sovereignty, social justice, local biologies and syndemic analysis

Chelsey Perry

Research Manager

Affiliation

Indigenous Equity Lab

Research Focus

Indigenous health, gender equity, climate change

Cheryllee Bourgeois

Exemption Métis Midwife

www.callauntieclinic.com

Affiliation

Call Auntie/Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto

Research Focus

Indigenous Midwifery, Population Health

Cherysh Perry

Research Assistant

Affiliation

Indigenous Equity Lab

Research Focus

Indigenous sexual health and climate justice

Claire Dion Fletcher

Assistant Professor

Affiliation

Toronto Metropolitan University

Research Focus

Indigenous midwifery

Clara Aubin

Researcher

Affiliation

Archipel Research

Jace Poirier Lacerte

Founder and Vision Keeper

www.familystewardshipcentre.ca/

Affiliation

Family Stewardship Foundation

Research Focus

Ceremonies and Family Health

Jennifer Brant

Associate Professor

www.indigenousliteratureslab.com/

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Research Focus

Indigenous Maternal Praxis

Jennifer Leason

Professor and CIHR Canada Research Chair

www.jenniferleason.com

Affiliation

University of Calgary, Rematriating Bison

Research Focus

Maternal child health

Jolene Heida

PhD Candidate

Affiliation

York University

Research Focus

Indigenous Women and gender diverse peoples resistance to land and body exploitation, Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies Indigenous feminist research

Karen Lawford

Canada Research Chair - Indigenous Midwifery

rchhindigenous.com/

Affiliation

Returning Care and Health Home

Research Focus

Health policy, travelling for birth, Indigenous midwifery

Kathleen Larose

Executive Director / MA Student

www.cawcs.org

Affiliation

Canadian Association of Women’s Centre Societies / Thompson Rivers University

Research Focus

Women’s Health Systems from a cross cultural lens

Kelsey Leonard

CRC Indigenous Waters, Climate and Sustainability

Affiliation

University of Waterloo

Research Focus

Indigenous Law

Kim Anderson

Dr.

Affiliation

University of Guelph

Research Focus

Relationality

Kimberly Huyser

Professor of Sociology

www.ciedar.ca/

Affiliation

University of British Columbia (Vancouver)

Research Focus

Indigenous health, demography, community engaged methodologies

Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk

Associate Professor

Affiliation

University of Winnipeg

Research Focus

Homelessness, housing, and health

Lorrilee McGregor

Associate Professor

Affiliation

NOSM University

Research Focus

Research ethics and consent, intellectual property rights, and opioid use disorder

Lucy Delgado

Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor

Affiliation

University of Manitoba, Canada Research Chair program

Research Focus

Michif and Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer Wellness

Margaret Kisikaw Piyesis

Okimâw

www.caan.ca/

Affiliation

CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks

Research Focus

Health

Marlyn Bennett

Associate Professor | Canada Research Chair Tier II Indigenous Children's Wellbeing

Affiliation

University of Calgary and Manitoba

Research Focus

Indigenous children/youth, Indigenous girls/women, body mapping, digital storytelling, arts-based, land-based, trauma informed, child welfare, parents' wellbeing, Sixties Scoop wellbeing

Mona Lisa Bourque Bearskin

Professor, BC Chair Indigenous Health Nursing

www.ihnr.ca/

Affiliation

University of Victoria

Research Focus

Indigenous Health Nursing

Nicole Redvers

Dr.

www.nicoleredvers.com

Affiliation

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University

Research Focus

Indigenous health; Planetary Health

Nicole Wemigwans

Affiliation

Laurentian University

Research Focus

Indigenous wellness, women, matriarchs, family

Otsi:tsia Brant

Integrated Experiential Learning Cohort Supervisor, Indigenous Midwifery

Affiliation

First Nations Technical Institute BIM

Renée Monchalin

Scientist

www.fireweedproject.ca/

Affiliation

Unity Health Toronto

Research Focus

Culturally safe reproductive health service access for Métis Peoples

Samantha Ruby

Fourth-Year Psychology Student & Undergraduate Researcher

Affiliation

Mount Royal University (B.A. Indigenous Psychology Student)

Research Focus

Indigenous women’s mental health, addictions, intergenerational trauma, and culturally grounded healing using Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk) and decolonizing research methodologies

Savage Bear

Assistant Professor

Affiliation

McMaster University

Research Focus

sexuality, kinship, incarceration, gender, ceremony, and survivance

Sheila Blackstock

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Thompson Rivers University

Research Focus

Indigenous Health

Tori Wilde

Graduate Student - Masters

Affiliation

University of Calgary

Research Focus

Preventing dating violence, healthy relationships

Tracey Hillier

Director

apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/thillier

Affiliation

University of Alberta

Research Focus

Education, indigenous Health, Mammography

Tricia McGuire-Adams

Associate Professor FKPE, Director of the H.E.A.R.T. Research Lab (Health Education and Resurgence Theory)

www.triciamcguireadams.com

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Research Focus

Indigenous women's health, well-being, and physical activity; Indigenous Resurgence