Indigenous Health Researchers Database

Indigenous Health Researchers Database is a comprehensive listing of researchers who are affiliated with a Canadian university and have a wide range of expertise related to the health of Indigenous peoples. These researchers have undertaken some form of research related to the health and well-being of First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis peoples, ranging from one study to a lifetime of work in a particular area.

The names of researchers along with their contact information, university affiliation, focus of Indigenous health research, and a selection of their publications are listed by theme and location. To view the details of a researcher please click on the name shown in the list to expand the information.

Compiled by the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH), this listing is based on publicly available information on university websites in Canada.

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Neil Andersson

Professor, Department of Family Medicine

McGill University

Selected Publications

Dion, A., Nakajima, A., McGee, A., & Andersson, N. (2022). How adolescent mothers interpret and prioritize evidence about perinatal child protection involvement: Participatory contextualization of published evidence. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-022-00865-1

Sarmiento, I., Cockcroft, A., Dion, A., Paredes-Solis, S., De Jesús-García, A., Melendez, D., Chomat, A.M., Zuluaga, G., Meneses-Rentería, A., & Andersson, N. (2022). Combining conceptual frameworks on maternal health in Indigenous communities – Fuzzy cognitive mapping using participant and operator-independent weighting. Field Methods, 34(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211070463

Sarmiento, I., Paredes-Solis, S., De Jesús-García, A., Maciel-Paulino, N., Meneses-Rentería, A., Amaya, C., Cockcroft, A., & Andersson, N. (2022). Traditional midwifery contribution to safe birth in cultural safety: Narrative evaluation of an intervention in Guerrero, Mexico. Community Health Equity Research & Policy, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272684X221120481

Sarmiento, I., Paredes-Solis, S., Morris, M., Cockcroft, A., & Andersson, N. (2020). Factors influencing maternal health in Indigenous communities with presence of traditional midwifery in the Americas: Protocol for a scoping review. BMJ Open, 10(10), e037922.

Silver, H., Sarmiento, I., Pimentel. J.-P., Budgell, R., Cockcroft, A., Vang, Z.M., & Andersson, N. (2022). Childbirth evacuation among rural and remote Indigenous communities in Canada: A scoping review. Women & Birth, 35(1), 11-22.

Tratt, E., Sarmiento, I., Gamelin, R., Nayoumealuk, J., Andersson, N., & Brassard, P. (2020). Fuzzy cognitive mapping with Inuit women: What needs to change to improve cervical cancer screening in Nunavik, Northern Quebec? BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 529.

Ian Pike

Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine; Director, BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU); Scientific Director, The Community Against Preventable Injuries (aka Preventable); Co-Director, Evidence to Innovation Research Theme, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

University of British Columbia

Selected Publications

Pike, I., Macpherson, A., McPherson, A. et al. (2010). Developing injury prevention indicators for Inuit children & youth. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.

Pike, I., McDonald, R., Macpherson, A., et al. (2010). Developing injury prevention indicators for First Nations children & youth in Canada. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.

Al-Hajj, S., Desapriya, E., Pawliuk, C., Garis, L., & Pike, I. (2022). Interventions for preventing residential fires in vulnerable neighbourhoods and Indigenous communities: A systematic review of the literature. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), 5434.

Amram, O., Walker, B., Schuurman, N., Pike, I. & Yanchar, N. (2016). Disparities in paediatric injury mortality between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations in British Columbia, 2001–2009. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(7), 651.

Desapriya, E., Fujiwara, T., Verma, P., Babul, S., & Pike, I. (2010). Comparison of on reserve road versus off-reserve road motor vehicle crashes in Saskatchewan, Canada: A case control study. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 23(6), 1005-20.

Ishikawa, T., Oudie, E., Desapriya, E., Turcotte, K., & Pike, I. (2014). A systematic review of community interventions to improve Aboriginal child passenger safety. American Journal of Public Health, 104(S3), pp. e1-e8. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301683.

Pike, I., McDonald, R.A., Piedt, S., & Macpherson, A.K. (2014). Developing injury indicators for First Nations and Inuit children and youth in Canada: A modified Delphi approach. Chronic Disease and Injury in Canada, 34(4), 203-209.

Kim van der Woerd

‘Namgis Nation; Instructor, Continuing Education, Lead for Strategy and Relations

Simon Fraser University

Jennifer Walker

Haudenosaunee, Six Nations of the Grand River; Adjunct Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences - Laurentian University; Associate Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact - McMaster University

McMaster University

Selected Publications

Walker, J., Pyper, E., Jones, C.R., Khan, S., Chong, N., Legge, D., Schull, M.J., & Henry, D. (2018). Unlocking First Nations health information through data linkage. International Journal of Population Data Science, 3(1), 450. DOI:: https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v3i1.450.

Carroll, S.R., Garba, I., Figueroa-Rodrígueq, O.L., Holbrook, J., Lovett, R., Materechera, S., Parsons, M., … Walker, J.D. et al. (2020). The CARE Principles for Indigenous data governance. Data Science Journal, 19, 43.

Chakanyuka, C., Bacscu, J.-D.R., Desroches, A., Walker, J., O’Connell, M.E., Dame, J., Carrier, L., Symenuk, P., Crowshoe, L., & Bourque Bearskin, L. (2022). Appraising Indigenous cultural safety within healthcare: Protocol of a scoping review of reviews. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78(1), 294-299.

Forbes, A., Ritchie, S., Walker, J., & Young, N. (2020). Applications of two-eyed seeing in primary research focused on Indigenous health: A scoping review. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920929110

Funnel, S., Tanuseputro, P., Letendre, A., Bourque Bearskin, R.L., & Walker, J. (2019). "Nothing about us without us." How community-based participatory research methods were adapted in an Indigenous end-of-life study using previously collected data. Canadian Journal on Aging, 39(2), 145-155.

Funnell, S., Walker, J., Letendre, A., Bourque Bearskin, R.L., Manuel, D., Scott, M., Spruin, S., & Tanuseputro, P. (2021). Places of death and places of care for Indigenous peoples in Ontario: A retrospective cohort study. The Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112(4), 685-696.

Henderson, R., Furlano, J.A., Claringbold, S.S., Cornect-Benoit, A., Ly, A., Walker, J., Zaretsky, L., & Roach, P. (2024). Colonial drivers and cultural protectors of brain health among Indigenous Peoples internationally. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1346753. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1346753.

Hudson, M., Russo Carroll, S., Anderson, J., Blackwater, D., Cordova-Marks, F.M., Cummins, J. … Walker, J.D. et al. (2023). Indigenous Peoples’ rights in data: A contribution toward Indigenous research sovereignty. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 8, 1173805. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1173805.

Jacklin, K., & Walker, J. (2020). Cultural understandings of dementia in Indigenous peoples: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Canadian Journal on Aging, 39(2), 220-234.

Jacklin, K., Pitawanakwat, K., Blind, M., O’Connell, M.E., Walker, J., Lemieux, A.M., & Warry, W. (2020). Developing the Canadian Indigenous cognitive assessment for use with Indigenous older Anishinaabe adults in Ontario, Canada. Innovation in Aging, 49(4), igaa038.

Jamal, S., Jones, C., Walker, J., Mazereeuw, M., Sheppard, A.J., Henry, D., & Marrett, L.D. (2021). Cancer in First Nations people in Ontario, Canada: Incidence and mortality, 1991 to 2010. Health Reports, 32(6), 14-28.

Jull, J., King, A., Mashford-Pringle, A., Manitowabi, D.,Walker, J., Brant, L., King, M., Morton Ninomiya, M.E., Gordon, M., & Ferrazzi, P. (2021). Indigenous community research partnerships can help address health inequities. The Conversation, March 16.

Mendlowitz, A.B., Bremner, K.E., Krahn, M., Walker, J.D., Wong, W.W.L., Sander, B. et al. (2023). Characterizing the cascade of care for hepatitis C virus infection among Status First Nations peoples in Ontario: A retrospective cohort study. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 195(14), E499-E512.

Sharma, N., Walker, J.D., Wenghofer, E., Moeke-Pickering, T., & Lindenbach, J. (2024). Indigenous approaches to health assessment: A scoping review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 13, 78.

Webkamigad, S., Rowe, R., Peltier, S., Froehlich Chow, A., McGilton, K.S., & Walker, J. D. (2020). Identifying and understanding the health and social care needs of Indigenous older adults with multiple chronic conditions and their caregivers: A scoping review. BMC Geriatrics, 20, 145.

Pyper, E., Henry, D., Yates, E.A., Mecredy, G., Ratnasingham, S., Slegers, B., & Walker, J.D. (2018). Walking the path together: Indigenous health data at ICES. Healthcare Quarterly, 20(4), 6-9.

Indigenous Health Researchers Database

Neil Andersson

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Ian Pike

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Kim van der Woerd

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Jennifer Walker

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