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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada

  • 08 Jun 2022
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Webinar

This presentation will highlight the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health’s (NCCIH) collaboration on the 2022 national assessment titled the Health of Canadians in a Changing Climate: Advancing our Knowledge for Action, produced by Health Canada’s Climate Change and Health Innovation Bureau. This comprehensive study of current and projected risks from climate change to the health of Canadians included a chapter dedicated to climate change and Indigenous Peoples’ health in Canada. Contributing authors, Donna Atkinson and Roberta Stout, will provide an overview of the key findings of this chapter; a summary of specific climate change risks to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples’ health; the role of Indigenous knowledges and rights in climate change adaptation, research and policy; and knowledge gaps for future research.

 

Donna Atkinson, MA, National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health

Donna Atkinson is the Manager of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree in History in 2005 from the University of Northern British Columbia focused on the Indigenous rights movement and oil and gas development in Northwest Siberia in the Soviet and post-Soviet era.

Roberta Stout, MA, National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health

Roberta Stout is Cree and a member of the Kehewin First Nation, located in Alberta. She holds an undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Carleton University, a graduate degree in Latin American Studies from Simon Fraser University, and a Cree Language Immersion Certificate from Blue Quills First Nations College. Since 1998, Roberta has led concurrent and multi-year research projects on the determinants of related to Indigenous Peoples.


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