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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Urban Indigenous

Cheryl Barnabe

Metis Nation of Alberta; Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health; Canada Research Chair, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases; Arthur J.E. Child Chair in Rheumatology Research

University of Calgary

Selected Publications

Barnabe, C. (2021). Towards attainment of Indigenous health through empowerment: Resetting health systems, services and provider approaches. BMJ Global Health, 6(2), e004051.

Barnabe, C., Montesanti, S., Sarin, C., White, T., Bartel, R., Henderson, R., Kennedy, A. et al. (2022). Propelled by the pandemic: Responses and shifts in primary healthcare models for Indigenous Peoples. Health Policy, 17(4), 48-55.

Barnabe, C., Crane, L., White, T., Hemmelgarn, B., Kaplan, G.G., Martin, L., & Maksymowych, W. (2018). Patient-reported outcomes, resource use, and social participation of patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with biologics in Alberta: Experience of Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients. The Journal of Rheumatology, 170778. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.170778

Barnabe, C., Zheng, Y., Crane, L., White, T., Hemmelgarn, B., Kaplan, G., Martin, L. et al. (2018). Effectiveness, complications and costs of rheumatoid arthritis treatment with biologics in Alberta: Experience of Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients. The Journal of Rheumatology, 170779. DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.170779

Lin, C.Y., Loyola-Sanchez, A., Boyling, E., & Barnabe, C. (2020). Community engagement approaches for Indigenous health research: Recommendations based on an integrative review. BMJ Open, 10(11), e039736.

Lin, I., Coffin, J., Bullen, J., & Barnabe, C. (2020). Opportunities and challenges for physical rehabilitation with Indigenous populations. Pain Reports, 5(5), e838.

Logan, L., McNairn, J., Wiart, S., Crowshoe, L., Henderson, R., & Barnabe, C. (2020). Creating space for Indigenous healing practices in patient care plans. Canadian Medical Education Journal, 11(1), e5-e15.

Loyola-Sanchez, A., Hazlewood, G., Crowshoe, L., Linkert, T., Hull, P.M., Marshall, D., & Barnabe, C. (2020). Qualitative study of treatment preferences for rheumatoid arthritis and pharmacotherapy acceptance: Indigenous patient perspectives. Arthritis Care & Research, 72(4), 544-52.

Nagaraj, S., Kargard, M., Hemmelgarn, B., Fritzler, M., White, T., & Barnabe, C. (2018). Effectiveness of an outreach model of care for rheumatology speciality clinics to an on-reserve First Nations community. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 13(1), 156-66.

Umaefulam, V., Fox, T.-L., & Barnabe, C. (2022). Decision needs and preferred strategies for shared decision-making in rheumatoid arthritis: Perspectives of Canadian urban Indigenous women. Arthritis Care & Research, 74(8), 1325-1331.

Umaefulam, V., Kleissen, T., & Barnabe, C. (2022). The representation of Indigenous peoples in chronic disease clinical trials in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Clinical Trials, 19(1), 22-32.

Cecilia Benoit

Mi’kmaw and French; Professor, Department of Sociology

University of Victoria

Selected Publications

Benoit, C., & Unsworth, R. (2021). Early assessment of integrated knowledge translation efforts to mobilize sex workers in their communities. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 60, 129-140.

Benoit, C., & Unsworth, R. (2022). COVID-19, stigma, and the ongoing marginalization of sex workers and their support organizations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 331-342.

Benoit, C., Maurice, R., Abel, G., Smith, M., Jansson, M., Healey, P., & Magnuson, D. (2020). 'I dodged the stigma bullet': Canadian sex workers' situated responses to occupational stigma. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 22(1), 81-95.

Benoit, C., Carroll, D., & Westfall, R. (2017). Being there for pregnant women: Canadian midwives in Aboriginal and settler communities. In C. Torri & J. Hornosty (eds.), Complementary and alternative medicine: Traditional medicine and reproductive health. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars' Press.

Card, K.G., Selfridge, M., Greer, A.M., Hepburn, K.J., Bernard Fournier, A., Sorge, J., Urbanoski, K., Pauly, B., Benoit, C. et al. (2021). Event-level outcomes of police interactions with young people in three non-metropolitan cities across British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy, 91, 102824.

Ghosh, H., Bourgeault, I., & Benoit, C. (2017). Meeting health service needs for urban Aboriginal women with co-morbid health concerns: Creating a safe place. Fourth World Journal, 15(2), 5-25.

Ghosh, H., Bourgeault, I., & Benoit, C. (2017). Meeting health services needs for urban Aboriginal women with co-morbid health concerns: Creating a safe place. Fourth World Journal, 15(2), 5-25.

Greer, A., Selfridge, M., Card, K., Benoit, C., Jansson, M., Lee, Z., & Macdonald, S. (2022). Factors contributing to frequent police contact among young people: A multivariate analysis including homelessness, community visibility, and drug use in British Columbia, Canada. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 29(2), 168-174.

Paul Brassard

Professor, Department of Medicine

McGill University

Annette J. Browne

Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, School of Nursing

University of British Columbia

Selected Publications

Browne, A.J., Lavoie, J.G., Logan McCallum, M.J., & Big Canoe, C. (2022). Addressing anti-Indigenous racism in Canadian health systems: Multi-tiered approaches are required. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 113, 222-226

Browne, A.J., Varcoe, C., & Ward, C. (2021). San'yas Indigenous cultural safety training as an educational intervention: Promoting anti-racism and equity in health systems, policies, and practices. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 12(3), 8204.

Browne, A.J., Varcoe, C., Wytenbroek, L., de Sousa, I., & Crosschild, C. (2023). Using philosophical inquiry to dismantle dominant thinking in nursing about race and racism. In M. Lipscomb (Ed.), Routledge handbook of philosophy and nursing. Routledge.

Bryant, J., Bolt, R., Botfield, J.R., Martin, K., Doyle, M., Murphy, D., Graham, S., Newman, C.E., Bell, S., Treloar, C., Browne, A.J., & Aggleton, P. (2021). Beyond deficit: 'Strengths-based approaches' in Indigenous health research. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43(6), 1405-1421

Hadjipavlou, G., Varcoe, C., Tu, D., Dehoney, J., Price, R., & Browne, A.J. (2018). "All my relations": Experiences and perceptions of Indigenous patients connecting with Indigenous Elders in an inner city primary care partnership for mental health and well-being. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 190(20), E608-E615.

Smye, V., Browne, A.J., Josewski, V., Keith, B., & Mussell, W. (2023). Social suffering: Indigenous Peoples’ experiences of accessing mental health and substance use services. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(4), 3288.

Tu, D., Hadjipavlou, G., Dehoney, J., Price, R., Dusdal, C., Browne, A.J., & Varcoe, C. (2019). Partnering with Indigenous elders in primary care improves mental health outcomes of inner-city Indigenous patients. Canadian Family Physician, 65(4), 274-281.

Varcoe, C., Ford-Gilboe, M., Browne, A.J., Perrin, N., Bungay, V., McKenzie, H., Smye, V. et al. (2021). The efficacy of a health promotion intervention for Indigenous women: Reclaiming our spirits. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(13-14), NP7086-NP7116.

Mariana Brussoni

Director, Human Early Learning Partnership; Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute; Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health; School of Population and Public Health

University of British Columbia

Selected Publications

Brussoni, M., George, M.A., Jin, A., Amram, O., McCormick, R., & Lalonde, C.E. (2018). Hospitalizations due to unintentional transport injuries among Aboriginal population of British Columbia, Canada: Incidence, changes over time and ecological analysis of risk markers. PLoS ONE, 13(2), e0193218.

Brussoni, M., George, M.A., Jin, A., Lalonde, C.E., & McCormick, R. (2016). Injuries to Aboriginal populations living on- and off-reserve in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in British Columbia, Canada: Incidence and trends, 1986-2010. BMC Public Health, 16, 397.

George, M.A., Jin, A., Brussoni, M., Lalonde, C.E., & McCormick, R. (2017). Intentional injury among Indigenous and total populations in British Columbia, Canada: Trends over time and ecological analyses of risk. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16, 141.

Jin, A., Brussoni, M., George, M.A., Lalonde, C.E., & McCormick, R. (2017). Risk of hospitalization due to unintentional fall in British Columbia, Canada, 1999-2008: Ecological associations with socioeconomic status, geographic place, and Aboriginal ethnicity. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 4(4), 558-70.

Jin, A., Brussoni, M., George, M.A., Lalonde, C.E., & McCormick, R. (2017). Risk of hospitalization due to unintentional fall injury in British Columbia, Canada, 1999-2008: Ecological associations with socioeconomic status, geographic place, and Aboriginal ethnicity. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 4(4), 558-70.

Riley, K., Froehlich Chow, A., Wahpepah, K., Humbert, M.L., Brussoni, M., Houser, N., & Erlandson, M.C. (2023). Etuaptmumk (Two-eyed seeing) in Nature’s Way-Our Way: Braiding physical literacy and risky play through Indigenous games, activities, cultural connections, and traditional teachings. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 19(2), 426-436.

Riley, KI., Froehlich Chow, A., Wahpepah, K., Houser, N., Brussoni, M., Stevenson, E., Erlandson, M.C., & Humbert, M.L. (2023). A Nature’s Way – Our Way pilot project case assemblage: (Re)storying child/physical literacy/land relationships for Indigenous preschool-aged children’s holistic wellness. Children, 10(3), 497.

Nadine Caron

Ojibway; Professor, Northern Medical Program

University of Northern British Columbia

Selected Publications

Caron, N.R., Chongo, M., Hudson, M., Arbour, L., Wasserman, W.W., Robertson, S., Correard, S., & Wilcox, P. (2020). Indigenous genomic databases: Pragmatic considerations and cultural contexts. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 111.

Caron, N. (2015). Reflections of one Indian doctor in a town up north. In M. Greenwood, S. de Leeuw, N.M. Lindsay, & C. Reading (eds.), Determinants of Indigenous peoples' health: Beyond the social (pp. 219-222). Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars' Press.

Chongo, M., Lavoie, J.G., Mignone, J., Caron, N.R., Harder, H.G., & Chase, R. (2020). Indigenous men adhering to highly active antiretroviral therapy: Navigating through culturally unsafe spaces while caring for their health. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 569733

Clarkson, A.D., Christian, W.M., Pearce, M.E., Jonbloed, K.A., Caron, N., Teegee, M.P. et al. (2015). The Cedar Project: Negative health outcomes associated with involvement in the child welfare system among young Indigenous people who use injection and non-injection drugs in two Canadian cities. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 106(5), e265-e270.

Garrison, N.A., Hudson, M., Ballantyne, L.L., Garba, I., Martinez, A., Tualii, M., Arbour, L., Caron, N.R., & Rainie, S.C. (2019). Genomic research through an Indigenous lens: Understanding the expectations. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 20, 495-517

Hudson, M., Garrison, N.A., Sterling, R., Caron, N.R., Fox, K., Yracheta, J., Anderson, J. et al. (2020). Rights, interests and expectations: Indigenous perspectives on unrestricted access to genomic data. Nature Reviews Genetics, 21, 377-384

Martin, D., Miller, A.P., Quesnel-Vallée, A., Caron, N., Vissandjée, B., & Marchildon, J.G.P. (2018). Canada's universal health-care system: Achieving its potential. The Lancet, 391(10131), 1718-35.

McGahan, C.E., Linn, K., Guno, P., Johnson, H., Coldman, A.J., Spinelli, J.J., & Caron, N. (2017). Cancer in First Nations people living in British Columbia, Canada: An analysis of incidence and survival from 1993 to 2010. Cancer Causes and Control, 28(10), 1105-16.

McVicor, J.A., Poon, A., Caron, N.R., Bould, D., Nickerson, J.W., Ahmad, N., Kimmarliardjuk, D.M., et al. (2021). Postoperative outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in Canada: A systematic review. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 193(20), E713-E722

Sarfati, D., Garvey, G., Robson, B., Moore, S., Cunningham, R., Withrow, D., Griffiths, K., Caron, N. et al. (2018). Measuring cancer in Indigenous populations. Annals of Epidemiology, 28(4), 335-342.

Natalie Clark

Settler, Secwepemc and Métis kinship; Professor and Co-chair, School of Social Work

Thompson Rivers University

Selected Publications

Clark, N., Walton, P., Drolet, J., Tribute, T., Jules, G., Main, T., and Arnouse, M. (2013). Melq’ilwiye: Coming together – Intersections of identity, culture, and health for urban Aboriginal youth. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 45(2): 36-57.

Clark, N., More, J., Denoras-Duck, L., Johnston-Virgo, D., Matthew, S., Anonymous, Manuel, N., & Derrick, J. (2020). "No one cares more about your community than you": Approaches to healing with Secwépemc children and youth. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 15(2), 67-86.

Clark, N.G. (2018). Cu7 me7 q'wele'wu-kt. "Come on, let's go berry-picking". Revival of Secwepemc wellness approaches for healing child and youth experiences of violence [Unpublished PhD dissertation]. Simon Fraser University.

Clark, N. (2012). Perserverance, determination and resistance: An Indigenous intersectional policy analysis of violence in the lives of Aboriginal girls and women. In O. Hankivsky (ed.), An Intersectionality-based policy analysis framework (pp. 133-160). Vancouver, BC: Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University.

Clark, N. (2016). Red intersectionality and violence-informed witnessing praxis with Indigenous girls. Girlhood Studies, 9(2), 46-64.

Clark, N. (2017). Intimate acts of resurgence: Witnessing the resistance of Indigenous children and youth. In J. Corntassel, T. Alfred, N. Goodyear-Ka'opua, N. Silva, & H. Aikau (eds.), Everyday acts of resurgence: People, places, practices. Olympia: Intercontinental Cry.

Clark, N., Walton, P., Drolet, J., Tribute, T., Jules, G., Main, T., & Arnouse, M. (2017). Melq'ilwiyi (Coming together): Re-imagining mental health for urban Indigenous youth through intersections of identity, sovereighty, and resistance. In M. Morrow & L. Malcoe (eds.), Critical inquiries for social justice in mental health. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.

Saewyc, E., Mounsey, B., Tourand, J., Brunanski, D., Kirk, D., McNeil-Seymour, J.... & Clark, N. (2017). Homeless and street-involved Indigenous LGBTQ2S youth in British Columbia: Intersectionality. In A. Abramovich & J. Shelton (eds.), Where am I going to go? Ending LGBTQ2S youth homelessness in Canada & the U.S. (pp. 13-40). Toronto, ON: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness.

Walton, P., Byrne, R., Clark, N., Pidgeon, M., Arnouse, M., & Hamilton, K. (2020). Online Indigenous university student supports, barriers, and learning preferences. International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 35(2), 32-45

Walton, P., Hamilton, K., Clark, N., Pidgeon, M., & Arnouse, M. (2020). Indigenous university student persistence: Supports, obstacles, and recommendations. Canadian Journal of Education, 43(2), 431-464.

Catherine Cook

Metis; Vice-Dean (Indigenous) & Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences , Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

Martin Cooke

Associate Professor, Sociology and Legal Studies and School of Public Health and Health Systems

University of Waterloo

Elizabeth Cooper

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies

University of Regina

Selected Publications

Cooper, E.J., & Driedger, S.M. (2018). Creative, strengths-based approaches to knowledge translation within indigenous health research. Public Health, 163, 61-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2018.06.020

Cooper, E.J., & Driedger, S.M. (2018). Working in unbounded communities: A Metis case study. In H. Exner-Pirot, B. Norbye, & L. Butler (eds.), Northern and Indigenous health and health care (Chapter 6). Saskatoon, SK: University of Saskatchewan.

Cooper, E.J., & Driedger, S.M. (2019). "If you fall down, you get back up": Urban Indigenous women and girls address historical trauma. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 10(1), DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2019.10.1.1

Cooper, E.J., & Driedger, S.M. (2021). The importance of explicit and timely knowledge exchange practices stemming from research with Indigenous families. The Qualitative Report, 26(8), 2405-43.

Cooper, E.J., Major, R., & Grafton, E.K. (2018). Beyond tokenism: Relational learning and reconciliation within post-secondary classrooms and institutions. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 40 (1), 54-63.

Cooper, E. (2022). Brave spaces: Indigenous children in Canada plan for a different tomorrow. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 47(6). https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2021-0470

Cooper, E., Driedger, S.M., & Lavoie, J.G. (2019). Building on strengths: Collaborative intergenerational health research with urban First Nations and Métis women and girls. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 14(1), 107-125.

Cooper, E.J., Driedger, S.M., & Lavoie, J.G. (2019). Employing a harm-reduction approach between women and girls within Indigenous familial relationships. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 43, 134-159. DOI:10.1007/s11013-018-9603-x

Cooper, E.J., Sanguins, J., Menec, V., Chartrand, A.F., Carter, S., & Driedger, S.M. (2020). Culturally responsive supports for Metis Elders and Metis family caregivers. Canadian Journal on Aging, 39(2), 206-219.

Indigenous Health Researchers Database

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Cheryl Barnabe

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Cecilia Benoit

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Paul Brassard

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Annette J. Browne

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Mariana Brussoni

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Nadine Caron

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Natalie Clark

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Catherine Cook

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Martin Cooke

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Elizabeth Cooper

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