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PI: Lucas, Lynnette J; Bell, Rhonda C; Bill, Lea; Montesanti, Stephanie R; Nepomnaschy, Pablo A; Oster, Richard T; Reading, Jeffrey L; Titone, Sebastien; Venners, Scott; Waddell, Charlotte A; Watts, Jeannette C
The Indigenous Healthy early Life Trajectories Initiative (I-HeLTI) is a novel, community-led partnership focused on strengths-based, multi-generational resilience research. Connecting early life sta…
PI: First Nations Information Governance Centre, .; Adams, Evan L; Armieri, Albert; Bombay, Amy; Caron, Nadine R; Dewar, Jonathan; Hardy, Billie Jo; Hopkins, Carol A; McQuaid, Robyn J; Nahwegahbow, Amy J; Perron, Magnolia; Santos, Maria T; Walker, Jennifer; Wilson, Peigi
First Nations in Canada are underrepresented in biobanks and genomic research. The lack of participation in biobanks and genetic research can be attributed to a long-standing history of unethical bio…
Complications due to preterm birth, which is birth before 37 weeks of gestation, are one of the main causes of death among children under five years of age. Preterm birth can have long-lasting impact…
PI: Ljubicic, Gita J; Tagalik, Shirley
Inuit diet was based on harvesting from a range of plant and animal species throughout the year, enabling Inuit to thrive even in seasonal scarcity. Today food insecurity in Nunavut is the highest in…
In partnership with six nations, "Sharing medicine bundles" aims to gather knowledge on approaches to land-based healing and wellness activities as a conduit to restoring youth roles and responsibili…
Mobilizing Indigenous Community-led STBBI Research to Increase Impact and Advance New Knowledge
PI: Masching, Renee; Monchalin, Renee J
CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks has led or partnered on more than 50 community-based HIV/AIDS Research projects from 2002 to 2021. This proposal seeks to identify and develop effective Indigen…
PI: Wells, Samantha L; Linklater, Renee
Many First Nation peoples and communities are disproportionately affected by mental health and substance use challenges due to the enduring harmful effects of colonialism. The COVID-19 pandemic is ex…
PI: Smith, Liris P; Bingham, Bonnee
Yukon University and the northern Village of Old Crow, led by the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation (VGFN), is seeking a research operational grant to explore emerging issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
PI: Sanderson, Darlene; Mirza, Noeman
The Tl'etinqox and Qwelminte Secwépemc are experiencing the impacts of colonization and climate change on their land, waterways, foods, and medicines. They demonstrated their resilience to the catast…
PI: Roach, Pamela Marie; Bastien, Leonard; Barnabe, Cheryl C; Crowshoe, Lynden L; Montesanti, Stephanie R
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid shifts in the delivery of primary health care (PHC) services to virtual care models occurred in Canada. Insufficient access to primary health care may unde…
PI: of Ontario, The MĂ©tis Nation; Stewart, Wendy L; Thistle, Ralph W
The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging and stressful for communities with ongoing changes, disruptions, and isolation. This has led to high levels of mental unwellness. Rates of anxiety and depre…
PI: Morrison, Dawn R; Bourque Bearskin, Lisa; Corntassel, Jeff; Wittman, Hannah
Growing evidence demonstrates that in the present health care system, traditional wellness and healing practices rooted in ancestral knowledge and land-based pedagogies are enabling factors that prom…
PI: Masching, Renee; Kisikaw Piyesis, Margaret L
Pandemic experiences are not new to Indigenous Peoples of North America; introducing and spreading infectious disease was a strategy of colonizing nations to claim lands and resources without resista…
PI: Liberda, Eric N; John, Ada; Sarkar, Atanu; Spence, Nicholas D
Pandemic related stressors have presented an opportunity to address and mitigate the risks associated with food security and wellbeing programs in remote Indigenous communities. However, a significan…
PI: Lawford, Karen M; Blais, Ellen M; Leason, Jennifer L; Pedri, Celeste
Canada is in a maternity care crisis as a result of hospital maternity care closures, decreasing numbers of physicians delivering babies, and the centralization of maternity care services in large, u…
Qanuinngitsiarutiksait 3: Developing mechanisms to ascertain Inuit data sovereignty in Manitoba
PI: Lavoie, Josée G; Dederick, Jeneen; Clark, Wayne
Inuit have long been underrepresented/invisible in the "data world". Despite decades of data being collected, Indigenous peoples continue to experience considerable inequities. This has led Indigenou…
PI: Funnell, Sarah; Kendall, Claire; Tanuseputro, Peter; Turcotte, Luke A
Most COVID-19 deaths were among vulnerable older adults living in long-term care (LTC) homes. This has led to calls for improvements in the quality of care provided in LTC homes. While the overall nu…
PI: Fellner, Karlee; Strawberry, Theresa
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a dramatic increase in rates of mental health issues, overdose, suicide, and violence in Indigenous communities in Canada. Existing mental health services are inadequat…
The impact of COVID-19 on vaccine uptake and immunization rates for First Nations people in Alberta
PI: Eurich, Dean; O'Brien, Celine Y; Thiara, Parminder; Sarin, Christopher
COVID-19 has negatively impacted Indigenous communities more than others. Ongoing social, racial and systemic inequities due to colonialism have compounded with government and public health measures …
PI: Black, Kerry; Swampy, Mario; Henderson, Rita I; Hubert, Casey; Parkins, Michael D; Sarin, Christopher
The proposed project tracks SARS-COV2 in wastewater in First Nations in Alberta and Northwest Territories through a community-engaged approaches. The research team has effectively deployed methods wi…
Community-partnered infectious disease modeling to inform Covid-19 policies and advocacy in Nunavik
PI: Ahmad Khan, Faiz
In mid-October 2021, Covid-19 finally arrived in epidemic form in Nunavik. At the time of writing (November 21, 2021), 817 Nunavimmiut have been diagnosed with Covid-19. The incidence in the region i…
PI: Indigenous Diabetes Health Circle, .; buchanan, maureen
Aki Gimiinigonaa Mshkooziiwin (The Land Gives Us Strength): Culturally-grounded healing within the urban-Indigenous community during COVID-19 is an urban Indigenous community-led knowledge mobilizati…
PI: Tremblay, Marie-Claude; Blanchet Garneau, Amélie; Fletcher, Christopher
The healthcare system in Canada was built on harmful power relationships established by colonialism, a racist ideology that assumes the superiority of one culture over another. Within the healthcare …
PI: Kisikaw Piyesis, Margaret L; Kelsey, roz
All Nations Hope Network (ANHN) will develop, implement, and assess the impact of land and gender-based cultural interventions among urban Indigenous men in Regina. ANHN responds to community needs w…
Luig (2011) notes "...that [land] pedagogical philosophy allows for experiential learning...and relational understandings. Learning in this context is articulated as a dialogue, not only between stud…
PI: Lawford, Karen M; Blais, Ellen M; Leason, Jennifer L
What are the comprehensive gender-inclusive sexual and reproductive care desires and needs of Indigenous Peoples in Ontario? Our research project advances a commitment to providing gender-inclusive c…
PI: Roach, Pamela Marie; Crowshoe, Lynden L; Walker, Jennifer
Based on current data, dementia is a priority in Canadian healthcare, particularly for Indigenous populations where rates of dementia can be up to 34% higher than in non-Indigenous populations. Canad…
PI: Poulin, Patricia A; Koscielniak, Andrew; Mushquash, Christopher J
Chronic pain (CP) affects 1 in 5 Canadians and disproportionately impacts Indigenous Peoples, who also report higher rates of other chronic health conditions and substance use. These health dispariti…
PI: Thomson, Kendra M; Busch, Louis P
This proposal was co-developed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, clinicians, and scholars who have lived experience and specialization in engagement, disability, and mental health. Consistent…
PI: Li, Patricia T; Berry, Margaret A; Dumont-Maurice, Raven; Pennell, Courtney; Wahi, Gita
Hospital care comprises the largest category in healthcare spending accounting for $66 billion a year in Canada, and numerous studies have demonstrated that hospitalization rates are disproportionate…
PI: King, Alexandra
The 2022 World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Viral Hepatitis (WIPCVH) will be the third such conference to address the disproportionate burden of viral hepatitis and associated morbidity experien…
PI: Bell, Rhonda C
The ilhenaylhs chet s7elji (Nourishing our Ancestors' Dreams) gathering will happen on the traditional unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, known as Vancouver BC, Augus…
PI: Cooper, Elizabeth; Robins, Dawn; Tenana, Elinor R; Andrews, Shawana; Matthews, Elise J; Smith, Hinekura
This meeting will bring together academics and community members from Australia, New Zealand and (Saskatchewan) Canada. We will focus on best practices for research and programming using arts-based a…
PI: Forbes, Andrew
There is robust evidence linking prenatal exposure to common environmental toxicants (e.g., lead, pesticides, 2nd hand smoke) to a variety of negative reproductive and developmental health outcomes. …
PI: Dunn, Kate
Hepatitis C is a viral blood borne infection also classified as a Sexually Transmitted Blood Borne Infection or STBBI that is both preventable and treatable. Without screening and treatment this viru…
People who are incarcerated receive clinical interviews by mental health clinicians to determine suicide and violence risk, treatment plans, need for segregation, readiness for release, etc. However,…
PI: McDonald, Shannon; Desjarlais, Juanita; Fleury, Mathew; Hughes, Katie; Isaac-Mann, Sonia T; Wieman, Cornelia G
The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) works with First Nations in BC to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with culturally safe, community-driven services. First Nations health leaders expertly nav…
PI: Koné Péfoyo, Anna J; Joseph, Serena M; Ray, Lana
The increasing burden of multimorbidity (MMB) has revealed challenges of the health system to adequately manage persons with ongoing care needs for chronic diseases (CD). CD and moreso MMB require re…
PI: Souleymanov, Roustam; Gervais, Laverne; McLeod, Albert; Montpetit, Dallas; King, Alexandra; Larcombe, Linda A
Very little is currently known about the impacts of COVID-19 on the physical, sexual, spiritual and mental health of Indigenous people living with HIV/AIDS (IPHA) in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. We pro…
PI: Wendt, Dennis C; Charlong, Pamela A; Brunelle, Caroline; Burack, Jacob A; Mushquash, Christopher J; O'Connor, Roisin M; Stewart, Sherry H
In the context of ongoing settler-colonialism and systemic racism, Indigenous Peoples have elevated risk for health and socioeconomic consequences from pandemics. A clear priority concern is the pand…
Our goal is to increase and expand the health system's capacity to provide culturally responsive maternal health services, even in places with limited infrastructure. The Indigenous health human reso…
PI: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, .
Through colonialist attitudes and policies, Inuit have historically been excluded from much of the conduct and benefit of research, despite being among the most studied Indigenous peoples on earth. O…
PI: Amon, Cristina; Bannon, Karen; Bazylak, Jason; Jeffrey, Melanie A
Different sources of air and ground (i.e., soil and water) pollution around the Fort William First Nation (FWFN) region in NW Ontario might be causing public health issues allegedly linked to a consp…
PI: The Alberta Nations Information, Governance Centre; Bill, Lea; Hamelin, Josephine M; Letendre, Angeline D
Supporting Healthy Lifestyle Choices to Promote Mental Health & Wellbeing in Indigenous Youth "Aging-Out-of-Care" to Urban Settings An intent of this research is to examine and explicate implementati…
Mental Wellness & Resilience: Co-creating a Collective Vision with Urban Indigenous Communities
This research will work with five Friendship/Métis Centres (FC/MCs) in British Columbia to develop a vision for community mental wellness grounded in people's experiences of living with diabetes. Ind…
PI: Taylor, Shira
Indigenous youth in remote communities in Northern Canada experience disproportionately high rates of STBBIs compared with other regions and creative interventions are desperately needed to curb this…
PI: Pakhale, Smita; Bignell, Ted; Magwood, Michael; Ambade, Preshit N; Jama, Sadia; Kitty, Darlene
COVID-19 affected the most-vulnerable populations disproportionately, in Canada and globally. Though the government of Canada urgently rolled out social assistance (SA) programs to those who lost job…
PI: Ospina, Maria B; Bartel, Reagan M
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people around the world. Yet, the problems of the COVID-19 pandemic are not equal for all. The pandemic has affected Indigenous peoples and increased their risk for…
PI: Driedger, S. Michelle; Chartrand, Frances; Nickel, Nathan C; Sanguins, Julianne
Why this research is needed: Systematically marginalized populations, such as First Nations/Métis/Inuit (FN/M/I), have been greatly affected by COVID-19 in Canada. This is why people identifying as F…
PI: Patrick, Lyana M; Atleo, Clifford G; Hoogeveen, Dawn
Indigenous peoples in the Western hemisphere have a tragic history with communicable disease. In the aftermath of contact, smallpox devastated Indigenous peoples. This project examines Indigenous com…