“One of the priorities young people have to think about is spirituality, and mental wellness.”
HENRY LANIGAN – COTE FIRST NATION
Areas of Interest
Indigenous Peoples Health & Wellness
Indigenous Maternal-Child and Reproductive Health
Population & Public Health: Epidemiology
Social Determinants of Health & Wellness
Medical Anthropology and Ethno-obstetrics/ Ethno-Medicine
Socio-Cultural Anthropology: Ethnographic Research
Health & Gender: Gender Based Analysis (GBA+)
Indigenous Feminist Perspectives
Community Based Participatory Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry
Interdisciplinary Research Methods & Theoretical Constructs
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Systems
Saulteaux- Anishinaabemowiin Language, Epistemologies, Oral Literature
INDIGENOUS MATERNITY EXPERIENCES
Creating a culturally and contextually relevant Indigenous Maternity Experiences Survey that examines Indigenous women's experiences during prenatal care, labour and birth, and 6 months postpartum.
INDIGENOUS MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH
Planning & disseminating information on Indigenous maternal child health information needs, gaps and priorities in Canada.
Ekjut works for the improvement of maternal and newborn child health through participatory intervention with women's groups in Jarkhand, India. Groups take part in a participatory learning action cycle to identify and prioritize maternal and newborn problems, find feasible solutions and implement and evaluate together.
Exploring the context of individuals who died from the acute toxic effects of opioids and illegal substances: Listening to the coroner and medical examiner voice.
Examining the historical, social, political, economical and cultural impacts
of colonization on Indigenous peoples health, including embodied intergenerational colonization.