FNEHIN - First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network

Expertise:

Health systems and policy, community-based participatory research.

Focus:

Aboriginal health issues, including self-government and health system development, cultural understandings of environmental health risks, and social determinants of health disparities; HIV/AIDS prevention in low- and middle-income countries.

Affiliations:

Professor and Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences Simon Fraser University

Academic Supervisor (if Applicable)

Research Area(s)

Housing

Geographical Preference(s)

Northern Canada

Projects

• Resilient indigenous health workforce networks: constructing an international framework
• Improving access to primary health care: Lessons from two urban Aboriginal health centres
• Manitoba Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research
• Early identification of rheumatoid arthritis in Canadian First Nations
• The social environment and the health of first nations women and men
• Manitoba first nations health report card: A collaborative network project to understand health disparities
• From risk factors to culturally-sensitive interventions: A programmatic approach to aboriginal suicide
• Using evidence to identify the need for investments in primary health care services on Manitoba first nation reserves
• First Nations Bone Health Study (FNBHS) - longitudinal measurements and outcomes
• ACADRE Full Grant application - University of Manitoba
• International centre for infectious diseases training program
• Why Equity in Financing First Nations On-Reserve Health Services Matters: Findings from the 2005 National Evaluation of the Health Transfer Policy
• Aboriginal suicide research: From risk factors to culturally-sensitive interventions
• The interaction of ethnicity and chronic disease as risk factors for osteoporotic fractures: a comparison in Canadian Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals
• The role of collectives in STI and HIV/AIDS prevention among female sex workers in Karnataka, India
• Against Essentialism: Relating Devadasi Sex Workers in Rural India to Global and Local Trafficking Discourses
• Social Capital as a Determinant of Health in First Nations: An Exploratory Study in Three Communities
• An examination of stress among Aboriginal women and men with diabetes in Manitoba, Canada
• Building a health relationship between First Nations and the University of Manitoba.
• Stress/trauma and coping/healing among Aboriginal peoples with diabetes in an urban Manitoba community
• Access issues for Aboriginal people seeking primary care services in an urban centre
• Development of a rapid ethnographic assessment tool for identifying community level factors predictive of HIV/AIDS risk in rural India
• Implementing the research program of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
• An examination of factors contributing to the development of a First Nation controlled health care system in Manitoba
• CAHR Aboriginal health survey support program