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  • RESET Team Members Involved: Maya Gislason

    Description: “A team of Indigenous organizations, governments, university researchers, and other resource people working together on research and action in support of the health and well-being of the environment and people. Arramat is working to strengthen Indigenous voices and capacities to document their knowledge about the importance of the whole environment (including biodiversity) to the health and well-being of their communities.”

    Learn more here: https://arramatproject.org/

  • PI: Dr. Blake Poland

    RESET Team Members Involved: Maya Gislason, Angel Kennedy

    This project is aiming to answer the following questions:

    • What curriculum content is required/missing, and pedagogical approaches are called for, to better prepare trainees for public health practice in the Anthropocene?

    • What innovations in educating about the ecological determinants of health may be already hiding in plain sight?

    • What lessons can be learned from champions in public health education in the Anthropocene?

    Learn more: here

  • PI: Dr. Margot Parkes

    RESET Team Members Involved: Maya Gislason, Angel Kennedy

    Dr. Maya Gislason is a co-Principal Investigator for the ECHO Network. The ECHO Network is a 5-year research program, funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team Grant, focused on working together across sectors to take notice of- and respond to- the influence of resource development on health and well-being, with specific emphasis on rural, remote and Indigenous communities and environments. The project brings together university researchers and local knowledge-users who have identified a need to better understand and respond to the health, environment and community impacts of resource development.

    Learn more here: https://www.echonetwork-reseauecho.ca/

  • PI: Dr. Alexandra King

    RESET Team Members Involved: Maya Gislason, Sadeem Fayed

    “The goal of the project is to address inequities in HIV/HCV burden and healthcare among Indigenous women in BC and SK by exploring the applicability of peer navigation as a promising practice within Indigenous contexts.”

    Learn more here: https://indigenouswellness.ca/projects/peers4wellness/

  • PI: Dr. Nancy Oleweiler

    RESET Team Members Involved: Maya Gislason, Kira Johnson

    The overarching goal of our research team of academics and solution seekers is to bring forward the needs of communities outside the major urban centres of BC by building meaningful partnerships with these communities to identify and co-create strategies for implementation of locally-informed low-carbon resilience solutions and contribute to government policy by amplifying the research results to the relevant BC Ministries and national councils and committees which the project partners actively contribute to.

  • PI: Dr. Alexandra King

    RESET Team Members Involved: Maya Gislason

    “This research aims to enhance and nurture urban Indigenous women’s connections with their culture leading towards improved wholistic health and wellness.”

    Learn more here: https://indigenouswellness.ca/projects/sslii/