Voices from the Field

Le français suit l'anglais. Pathways to Indigenous health – Inuit identity south of 60 This webinar examines Norma Dunning’s lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. It takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face and the expectations of mainstream as to what an Inuk person can and should be. Pathways to Indigenous health...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Pathways to Indigenous health - Truth before reconciliation: How to identify and confront residential school denialism This webinar explores what denialism is and how it undermines efforts to decolonize Canada’s healthcare system. Dr. Sean Carlton, Assistant Professor of History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, examines how a speech...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field Episode 29 - A medical student's journey: Kara Ruff – Part 4: Health supports and services for Indigenous patients This episode was created to outline some supports and services available for Indigenous patients regarding the biopsychosocial aspects of health care. It is important for health care workers to be aware of these resources, but to act w...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field Episode 26 - A medical student's journey – Part 1: Introduction to Kara Ruff This episode was created to introduce myself and why I am passionate about Indigenous health care. Read or download a transcript: https://www.nccih.ca/Publications/lists/Publications/Attachments/VF/2023-08-25-medical-student-01-intro-EN.pdf Subscribe to our mailing list to...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field Episode 28 - A medical student's journey – Part 3: Immersive learning in Lower Post, BC This episode was created to share some perspectives gained from taking part in an immersive learning experience aimed at improving medical student’s cultural safety and humility skills. The learning experience was provided through the First Nations Community Edu...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field Episode 27 - A medical student's journey – Part 2: Cultural safety and humility in practice This episode was created as an adaptation from Arnold and Bogg’s textbook called Interpersonal Relationships, Professional Communication Skills for Canadian Nurses. Dr. Sheila Blackstock wrote a chapter called Engaging with Humility, Authentic Interpersonal...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Knowledge translation approaches and practices in Indigenous health research Knowledge translation (KT) efforts are essential to making research processes and findings useful and valuable. Much Indigenous health research and KT continues to be taught, developed, designed, regulated, and conducted in ways that do not prioritize local Indigenous Peoples’ w...

Le français suit l'anglais. Podcast: Voices from the Field 25 – Youth Protection, Social Determinants of Health, and Reappropriation of Decision-Making Power: Quebec First Nations Demands – a chapter in the NCCIH’s publication, Introduction to Determinants of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples’ Health in Canada Marjolaine Siouï and Richard Gray are two of a team of authors all employed by the...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 24 - Our Highway, Our Tears: Indigenous Women’s and Two Spirit People’s Health and Resource Extraction In 2021, Canadian Scholars Press published the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s university-led textbook entitled Introduction to Determinants of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples’ Health in Canada. Comprising wisdoms fro...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Past, Present, and Future: The Story of a Northern Ontario First Nations Health Data Partnership In 2016, several First Nations health service organizations in northern Ontario came together to address a shared challenge: a lack of high-quality, community-specific health data that they needed to make evidence-informed decisions. This led to the formation...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 23 - A discussion of Visioning the Future: First Nation, Inuit, and Métis Population and Public Health The COVID-19 global pandemic has underscored and exacerbated inequities in public health, drawing attention to the crucial need to articulate a public health vision for Indigenous Peoples that conceives of a healthier, more equitable future. In th...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 22 - A discussion of the importance of cultural safety in health care and how it can be achieved In this episode we hear from Dr. Margo Greenwood, Academic Leader of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Northern British Columbia and former Vice-President, Indigenous Health of the Northern Health Region. Dr. G...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Visioning the Future: First Nations, Inuit, & Métis Population and Public Health Series – National Indigenous Organizations Visioning the Future is a series of webinars offering a vision for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples’ public health. These webinars are a development of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s 2021 publicatio...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Visioning the Future: First Nations, Inuit, & Métis Population and Public Health Series – Environmental and Mental Health Visioning the Future is a series of webinars offering a vision for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples’ public health. These webinars are a development of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s 2021 publication,...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Visioning the Future: First Nations, Inuit, & Métis Population and Public Health Series – Governance and Data Visioning the Future is a series of webinars offering a vision for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples’ public health. These webinars are a development of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s 2021 publication, Visioning t...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Visioning the Future: First Nations, Inuit, & Métis Population and Public Health Series – Determinants of Health Visioning the Future is a series of webinars offering a vision for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples’ public health. These webinars are a development of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s 2021 publication, Visionin...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - First Nations’ Leadership on Climate Change – National and regional strategies of the Assembly of First Nations This webinar brings together presentations by five representatives of national and regional offices of the AFN who hold portfolios related to the environment, including Jewel Davies and Shauna Yeomans-Lindstrom (Yukon Climate Action Fellowship...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 21 - Ajarat Adegun and Shirley Thompson In this episode, we hear from co-authors Ajarat Adegun and Shirley Thompson, both with the University of Manitoba. They provide an overview of their article titled, Higher COVID-19 rates in Manitoba’s First Nations compared to non-First Nations linked to limited infrastructure on reserves. As part of this pod...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 20 - Climate change and Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada This episode highlights the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s collaboration on the 2022 national assessment titled the Health of Canadians in a Changing Climate: Advancing our Knowledge for Action, produced by Health Canada’s Climate Change and Health Innovation Bureau...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 19 – Emergency management planning - a climate change and health adaptation project of the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq In this episode we hear from Amber MacLean-Hawes about the emergency management planning that has been done by the Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq. Over the past five years, this adaptation project comprehensively supports the...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Indigenous Peoples’ perspectives on climate change and water safety and security Climate change impacts, such as increased precipitation, flooding, and drought, can significantly affect the quality, quantity, and accessibility of water, exacerbating health risks and challenges already present in many Indigenous communities in Canada. Considered life-givi...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 18 - A Shared Future: Researching energy autonomy in the context of climate change for Indigenous Communities in Canada This episode features “A Shared Future” a five year program of research which stands for “Achieving strength, health and autonomy through renewable energy development for the future.” Dr. Diana Lewis - a Mi’kmaq scholar from Sipek...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 17 - Drawing on teachings from the land to adapt to climate change In this episode, Spencer Greening, of the Tsimshian community of the Gitga'at First Nation in British Columbia, and a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University, takes us on a journey to understanding how Indigenous knowledge, laws, governance systems, and oral histories inform sustai...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Indigenous Peoples, food safety and security and climate change in Canada According to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, unprecedented, intensified, rapid, and widespread climate change is affecting all regions of the globe. In order to understand how warming temperatures will impact the health and well-being o...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar - Taking Stock of the Calls to Action on Sport and Reconciliation for First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) is undertaking a two-year Champion of Partnerships project as part of the Government of Canada’s Common Vision for Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Living in Canada:...