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Presenter:

Bernice Downey, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University

Dr. Bernice Downey is a woman of Ojibwe and Celtic heritage, a mother and a grandmother. She is a medical anthropologist with research interests in health, health literacy and Indigenous Traditional knowledge and health/research system reform for Indigenous populations. Bernice is currently cross appointed to the School of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and is the Indigenous Health Lead for the Faculty of Health Science at McMaster University. She holds a  Heart & Stroke Foundation - Canadian Institute of Health Research - Chair in Indigenous Women’s Heart and Brain Health. She is also the A/Director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute.

Bernice’s professional experience includes Sole Proprietor of her consulting company; 'Minoayawin - Good Health Consulting'; Chief Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal Health Organization and Executive Director of the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada. 

She was one of two Indigenous leads for the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Canadian Reference Group. Director and Research Associate of the Well Living House - Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She was a member of the Canadian Institute of Health Research - Institute of Aboriginal Health, Advisory Board for six years. Bernice also successfully led the development of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute. 

She is an experienced administrator, facilitator, and an organizational and systemic change agent. She is also a life - long advocate in the work towards addressing the serious health inequities among Indigenous populations in Canada.

 

 

CASN’s National Research Priorities for Nursing: Priority #1 Indigenous and other equity-seeking communities

Presentation Title: Odayimman (Heart) Project: Knowledge Translation in an Indigenous context

September 12, 2019; 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Eastern

Lunch & Learn Theme: CASN’s National Research Priorities for Nursing: Priority #1 Indigenous and other equity-seeking communities

  • Thursday Sep 12 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Online
    Canada
    L8S 4L8