Join our free online webinar to learn about the Indigenous Public Health (IPH) Program! The IPH Training Institutes is Canada’s only Indigenous Public Health professional development program at UBC’s Faculty of Medicine. The Indigenous Public Health Training Institutes equip Indigenous community members and scholars to address public health issues in Indigenous communities. The Certificate consists of 8 core courses that bring a variety of diverse Indigenous guest lecturers to share their perspectives on current public health issues in their communities.
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Date: Thursday, November 14th, 2024 (PST)
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:30 am
About the Presenters:
Rhonda Carriere
Indigenous Public Health Program Manager
Rhonda Carriere is a proud Métis with roots from the Red River on her father’s side, and German settler ancestry on her mother’s side. She currently resides on the traditional and unceded lands (*swiya) of the shíshálh people. Rhonda is returning to the role of Indigenous Public Health Program Manager after holding the Cultural Support Program Coordinator role for the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and First Nations House of Learning at UBC. Her experiences with IRS survivors and intergenerational survivors have strengthened her conviction that a trauma-informed lens is essential in supporting Indigenous health. Culture is healing. Rhonda holds MA and BA degrees in Canadian Literature and a Diploma in Community Economic Development, and brings a long history of working with Indigenous people, organizations and communities, including the Vancouver Sea to Sky Métis Association, to the work of the CEIH.
*swiya: ‘swiya’ is she shashishalhem (shíshálh language) word for ‘world’. The word ‘territory’ does not exist in she shashishalhem, thus elders, knowledge keeps and government request that the word ‘swiya’ is used instead.
Cheyenne Blackbird
Indigenous Public Health Program Graduate
My name is Cheyenne Blackbird, and I am an Anishnaabekwe from Treaty 2 territory in Manitoba. I have a background in nursing and am currently pursuing my Masters of Health Administration. I was a graduate from UBC’s Indigenous Public Health Program in February 2024, and apply the knowledge and teachings each day to my current role. I am an Indigenous Lead for PHSA BCMHSUS for the Crisis Line Enhancement Project aiding the Indigenous Cultural Humility workstream and uplifting Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my small family and volunteering with Elders in community.
Damian Duffy
Indigenous Public Health Program Graduate and Teaching Assistant
My name is Damian Duffy, and I live and work on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. I am an uninvited guest of mixed settler Irish and French ancestry. I hold a Master of Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am also a recent graduate of the UBC Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Health. I am very thankful for this training and education which has greatly prepared me to pursue a second Master’s Degree in Indigenous Education which I began in July, 2024.
Working for UBC since 1994, I am the Executive Director of the Office of Pediatric Surgical Evaluation and Innovation at BC Children’s Hospital. In 2001, I became involved in community-led, service-learning models to help improve health equity and strengthen access to pediatric medical and dental care in the remote Indigenous communities of the Gitga’at, Gitxaala, and Lax Kw’alaams First Nations. This journey remains a meaningful part of my work to this day.
Kevin Hill
Indigenous Public Health Program Student
Kevin Hill is a Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario. He is the Indigenous Patient Navigator for the Community Transition Team with BC Mental Health and Substance Use services.
Kevin has 17 years experience working in integrated services supporting clients in the community. He worked 15 years at Vancouver’s Downtown Community Court as the Indigenous Case Manager. He provided resources and support to the clientele in the downtown eastside community as well as supervising clients with probation orders. Kevin currently works for Provincial Health Services Authority and the Community transition team as the Indigenous Patient Navigator. where he provides Culturally appropriate resources and services to the clients in the correctional health care facilities.
Kevin has a degree in Criminology and is a current student in the Indigenous Health Administration and Leadership program and the Indigenous Public Health Cohort at the University of British Columbia.
Resources
- Applications to the IPH program is about to open, if you are interested in joining our February cohort, please visit our website – IPH Website
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