Indigenous Health Researchers Database

Selected Publications

Anisman, H., Bombay, A., & Matheson, K. (2025). Health disturbances stemming from overcrowding and inadequate housing among Indigenous Peoples within Canada. Frontiers in Environmental Health, 4, 1720326.

Bombay, A., McQuaid, R.J., Young, J., Sinha, V., Currie, V., Anisman, H., & Matheson, K. (2020). Familial attendance at Indian Residential School and subsequent involvement in the child welfare system among Indigenous adults born during the Sixties Scoop era. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 15(1), 62-79

Matheson, K., Seymour, A., Landry, J., Ventura, K., Arsenault, E., & Anisman, H. (2022). Canada's colonial genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A review of psychosocial and neurobiological processes linking trauma and intergenerational outcomes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6455.

Paul, J., McQuaid, R.J., Hopkins, C., Perri, A., Stewart, S., Matheson, K., Anisman, H., & Bombay, A. (2022). Relations between bullying and distress among youth living in First Nations communities: Assessing direct and moderating effects of culture-related variables. Transcultural Psychiatry, 61(3), 429-439. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615221109359

Selected Publications

Anuik, J. (2019). If you say I am Indian, what will you do? History and self-identification at humanity’s intersection. In S. Carr-Stewart (ed.), Knowing the past, facing the future: Indigenous education in Canada (pp. 106-117). Purich Books

Anuik, J. (2021). Practicing reconciliation in a Canadian book club. In M. Keynes, H. A. Elmersjö, D. Lindmark, & B. Norlin (Eds.), Historical justice and history education (pp. 317-339). Palgrave Macmillan. 

Anuik, J. (2021). The right to self-identify as Métis at school. In Y. Boyer & L. Chartrand (Eds.), Métis rising: Living our present through the power of our past (pp. 50-65). Purich Books.

Selected Publications

Batal, M., & Decelles, S. (2019). A scoping review of obesity among Indigenous peoples in Canada. Journal of Obesity, Article ID 9741090.

Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Ing, A., Berti, P., Sadik, T., & Johnson-Down, L. (2021). Associations of health status and diabetes among First Nations Peoples living on-reserve in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 154–167 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00488-6

Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Ing, A., Berti, P., Sadik, T., & Johnson-Down, L. (2021). Nutrient adequacy and nutrient sources of adults among ninety-two First Nations communities across Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 29–40 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00490-y

Batal, M., Kenny, T.A., Johnson-Down, L., Chan, L., Sadik, T., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Willows, N. (2022). Development of an optimal grocery list based on actual intake from a cross-sectional study of First Nations adults in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 47(4), 379-294. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2020-0950

Batal, M., Johnson-Down, L., Moubarac, J.-C., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T. et al. (2018). Quantifying associations of the dietary share of ultra-processed foods with overall diet quality in First Nations peoples in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. Public Health Nutrition, 21(Sp. Iss. 1), 103-113.

Blanchet, R., Batal, M., Johnson-Down, L., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Reintroduction Initiatives, & Willows, N. (2021). An Indigenous food sovereignty initiative is positively associated with well-being and cultural connectedness in a survey of Syilx Okanagan adults in British Columbia, Canada. BMC Public Health, 21, 1405. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11229-2

Blanchet, R., Willows, N., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Salmon Reintroduction Initiatives, & Batal, M. (2022). Enhancing cultural food security among the Syilx Okanagan adults with the reintroduction of Okanagan sockeye salmon. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 47(2),124-133. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2021-0321.

Blanchet, R., Willows, N., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Salmon Reintroduction Initiatives, & Batal, M. (2020). Traditional food, health, and diet quality in Syilx Okanagan adults in British Columbia, Canada. Nutrients, 12(4), 927.

Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Batal, M., Sadik, T., Tikhonov, C., Ing, A., & Barwin, L. (2021). The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008-2018) – rationale, design, methods and lessons learned. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 8-9.

Chan, H.M., Singh, K., Batal, M., Marushka, L., Tikhonov, C., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., & Fediuk, K. (2021). Levels of Metals and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Traditional Foods consumed by First Nations Living on Reserve in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 81–96 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00495-7

Domingo, A., Springer, J., Wittman, H., Gruhn, M., Chan, H.M., Tikhonov, C., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T., & Batal, M. (2020). Predictors of household food insecurity and relationship with obesity in First Nations communities in British Columbia, Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario. Public Health Nutrition, 24(5), 1021-1033.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019004889

Johnson-Down, L., Willows, N., Kenny, T.A., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T., Chan, H.M., & Batal, M. (2019). Optimization modeling to improve the diets of First Nations individuals. Journal of Nutritional Science, 8, e31.

Kenny, T., Little, M., Lemieux, T., Griffin, J.P., Wesche, S., Ota, Y., Batal, M., Chan, H.M., & Lemire, M (2020). The retail food sector and Indigenous Peoples in high-income countries: A systematic scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(23), 8818.

Lavigne-Robichaud, M., Moubarac, J.-C., Lantagne-Lopez, S., Johnson-Down, L., Batal, M. et al. (2018). Diet quality indices in relation to metabolic syndrome in an Indigenous Cree (Eeyouch) population in northern Québec, Canada. Public Health Nutrition, 21(Sp. Iss. 1), 172-180.

Marushka, L., Batal, M., Tikhonov, C., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Chan, H.M. (2021). Importance of fish for food and nutrition security among First Nations in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 64–80 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00481-z

Marushka, L., Hu, X., Tikhonov, C., Batal, M., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Chan, H.M. (2021). Dietary exposure to persistent organic pollutants is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes among First Nations in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 168–182 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00484-w

Marushka, L., Kenny, T.A., Batal, M., Cheung, W.W.L., Fediuk, K., Golden, C.D., Salomon, A.K. et al. (2019). Potential impacts of climate-related decline of seafood harvest on nutritional status of coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0211473.

Schwartz, H., Marushka, L., Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Sadik, T., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Tikhonov, C. (2021). Pharmaceuticals in source waters of First Nation reserves of Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 133–153. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00499-3

Willows, N., Johnson-Down, L., Kenny, T.A., Chan, H.M., & Batal, M. (2018). Modeling optimal diets for quality and cost: Examples from Inuit and First Nations communities in Canada. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 44(7), 696-703.

Selected Publications

Mardones, V., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). The biocultural context for development of a community-based enterprise: Nunatsiavut Inuit Knowledge and perspectives on the use of medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 22, 1-13. https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/2863

Norton, C. H., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). People and plants in Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada): Examining plants as a foundational aspect of culture in the Subarctic. Economic Botany, 75, 287-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12231-021-09530-7 

Cuerrier, A., Clark, C., Samuel-Dwyer, F., & Rapinski, M. (2022). Nunatsiavut, 'Our beautiful land': Inuit landscape ethnoecology in Labrador, Canada. Botany, 100(2), 159-174.

Elliott, H.L., Mulrennan, M.E., & Cuerrier, A. (2022). ‘We have a lot of (un)learning to do’: Whiteness and decolonial prefiguration in a food movement organization. Settler Colonial Studies, 13(2), 194-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2022.2077900

Joseph, L., Cuerrier, A., & Mathews, D. (2021). Shifting narratives, recognizing resilience: New anti-oppressive and decolonial approaches to ethnobotanical research with Indigenous communities in Canada. Botany, 100(2). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0111

Joseph, L., Mathews, D., Boulos, L.T., & Cuerrier, A. (2025). The Yetwánaý Project: A Skwxwú7mesh case study for land and plant-based health and wellness. International Journal for Indigenous Health, 21(1).

Mardones, V., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). Developing a community-based enterprise: Nunatsiavut Inuit knowledge and perspectives on the use of medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 22, 1-13.

Turner, N.J., & Cuerrier, A. (2021). ‘Frog’s umbrella’ and ‘ghost’s face powder’: The cultural roles of mushrooms and other fungi for Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Botany, 100(2). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0052

Turner, N.J., Cuerrier, A., & Joseph, L. (2022). Well grounded: Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, ethnobiology and sustainability. People and Nature, 4(3), 627-651.

Selected Publications

Drouin-Gagné, M.-E. (2021). Beyond the “indigenizing the academy” trend: Learning from Indigenous higher education land-based and intercultural pedagogies to build trans-systemic education. Engaged Scholar Journal, 7(1), 45-65.

Blanchet-Cohen, N., Drouin-Gagné, M.-E., & Bellefleur, D. (2022). Favoriser le menuinniun : La voix des élèves innus sur l’identité et la réussite éducative à l’école Québécoise. Enfance en difficulté, 9, 33-55.

Fast, E., & Drouin-Gagné, M.-È. (2019). We need to get batter at this! Pedagogies for truth telling about colonial violence. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 10(1), 95-118.

Fast, E., Allouche, Z.I., Drouin-Gagné, M.-E., & Boldo, V. (2019). Indigenous youth leaving care in Canada: Lessons from our past and present. In V.R. Mann-Feder & M. Goyette (eds.), Leaving care and the transition to adulthood: International contributions to theory, research and practice (pp. 243-260). Oxford University Press

Guimont Marceau, S., & Drouin-Gagné, M.È. (2025). Cartographie des territorialités de jeunes Autochtones de Montréal/Tiohtà:ke : appropriation spatiale et transgression de l’ordre colonial. Mappe Monde, 139, 1-21.

Guimont, M., Buckell, J., Drouin-Gagné, M.-E., Léonard, N., & Ainsley Vincent, R. (2023). Settler urbanization and Indigenous resistance: Uncovering an ongoing palimpsest in Montreal’s Cabot Square. Urban History Review, 51(2), 310-333.

Léonard, N., Buckell, J., Ainsley-Vincent, R., Drouin-Gagné, M.-E., & Guimont Marceau, S. (2023). Layers of settler urbanization and Indigenous relational place-making: Uncovering an ongoing palimpsest. Urban Geography, 44(2), 281-283.