CHERCHEURS EN SANTÉ AUTOCHTONE

Publications

Batal, M., & Decelles, S. (2019). A scoping review of obesity among Indigenous peoples in Canada. Journal of Obesity, Article ID 9741090.

Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Ing, A., Berti, P., Sadik, T., & Johnson-Down, L. (2021). Associations of health status and diabetes among First Nations Peoples living on-reserve in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 154–167 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00488-6

Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Ing, A., Berti, P., Sadik, T., & Johnson-Down, L. (2021). Nutrient adequacy and nutrient sources of adults among ninety-two First Nations communities across Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 29–40 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00490-y

Batal, M., Kenny, T.A., Johnson-Down, L., Chan, L., Sadik, T., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Willows, N. (2022). Development of an optimal grocery list based on actual intake from a cross-sectional study of First Nations adults in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 47(4), 379-294. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2020-0950

Batal, M., Johnson-Down, L., Moubarac, J.-C., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T. et al. (2018). Quantifying associations of the dietary share of ultra-processed foods with overall diet quality in First Nations peoples in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. Public Health Nutrition, 21(Sp. Iss. 1), 103-113.

Blanchet, R., Batal, M., Johnson-Down, L., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Reintroduction Initiatives, & Willows, N. (2021). An Indigenous food sovereignty initiative is positively associated with well-being and cultural connectedness in a survey of Syilx Okanagan adults in British Columbia, Canada. BMC Public Health, 21, 1405. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11229-2

Blanchet, R., Willows, N., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Salmon Reintroduction Initiatives, & Batal, M. (2022). Enhancing cultural food security among the Syilx Okanagan adults with the reintroduction of Okanagan sockeye salmon. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 47(2),124-133. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2021-0321.

Blanchet, R., Willows, N., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Salmon Reintroduction Initiatives, & Batal, M. (2020). Traditional food, health, and diet quality in Syilx Okanagan adults in British Columbia, Canada. Nutrients, 12(4), 927.

Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Batal, M., Sadik, T., Tikhonov, C., Ing, A., & Barwin, L. (2021). The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008-2018) – rationale, design, methods and lessons learned. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 8-9.

Chan, H.M., Singh, K., Batal, M., Marushka, L., Tikhonov, C., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., & Fediuk, K. (2021). Levels of Metals and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Traditional Foods consumed by First Nations Living on Reserve in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 81–96 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00495-7

Domingo, A., Springer, J., Wittman, H., Gruhn, M., Chan, H.M., Tikhonov, C., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T., & Batal, M. (2020). Predictors of household food insecurity and relationship with obesity in First Nations communities in British Columbia, Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario. Public Health Nutrition, 24(5), 1021-1033.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019004889

Johnson-Down, L., Willows, N., Kenny, T.A., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T., Chan, H.M., & Batal, M. (2019). Optimization modeling to improve the diets of First Nations individuals. Journal of Nutritional Science, 8, e31.

Kenny, T., Little, M., Lemieux, T., Griffin, J.P., Wesche, S., Ota, Y., Batal, M., Chan, H.M., & Lemire, M (2020). The retail food sector and Indigenous Peoples in high-income countries: A systematic scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(23), 8818.

Lavigne-Robichaud, M., Moubarac, J.-C., Lantagne-Lopez, S., Johnson-Down, L., Batal, M. et al. (2018). Diet quality indices in relation to metabolic syndrome in an Indigenous Cree (Eeyouch) population in northern Québec, Canada. Public Health Nutrition, 21(Sp. Iss. 1), 172-180.

Marushka, L., Batal, M., Tikhonov, C., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Chan, H.M. (2021). Importance of fish for food and nutrition security among First Nations in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 64–80 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00481-z

Marushka, L., Hu, X., Tikhonov, C., Batal, M., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Chan, H.M. (2021). Dietary exposure to persistent organic pollutants is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes among First Nations in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 168–182 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00484-w

Marushka, L., Kenny, T.A., Batal, M., Cheung, W.W.L., Fediuk, K., Golden, C.D., Salomon, A.K. et al. (2019). Potential impacts of climate-related decline of seafood harvest on nutritional status of coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0211473.

Schwartz, H., Marushka, L., Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Sadik, T., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Tikhonov, C. (2021). Pharmaceuticals in source waters of First Nation reserves of Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 133–153. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00499-3

Willows, N., Johnson-Down, L., Kenny, T.A., Chan, H.M., & Batal, M. (2018). Modeling optimal diets for quality and cost: Examples from Inuit and First Nations communities in Canada. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 44(7), 696-703.

Publications

Bourque Bearskin, R.L., Kennedy, A., & Kelly, L.C. (2020). Indigenist nursing: Caring keeps us close to the source. In M. Hills, J. Watson, & C. Cara (eds.), Creating a caring science curriculum: An emancipatory pedagogy for nursing. Springer.

Brockie, T., Clark, T.C., Best, O., Power, T., Bourque Bearskin, L., Kurtz, D.L., Lowe, J., & Wilson, D. (2021). Indigenous social exclusion to inclusion: Case studies on Indigenous nursing leadership in four high-income countries. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 32(3-4), 610-624. DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15801.

Dion Stout, M., Wieman, N., Bourque-Bearskin, R.L., Palmer, B.C., Brown, L., Brown, M., & Namaste, M. (2021). Gum yan asing Kaangas giidaay han hll guudang gas ga. I will never again feel that I am less than: Indigenous health care providers' perspectives on ending racism in health care [Commentary]. International Journal of Health 16(1), 13-20.

Funnell, S., Walker, J., Letendre, A., Bourque Bearskin, R.L., Manuel, D., Scott, M., Spruin, S., & Tanuseputro, P. (2021). Places of death and places of care for Indigenous peoples in Ontario: A retrospective cohort study. The Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112(4), 685-696.

Jakubec, S., & Bourque Bearskin, L. (2020). Awareness, allyship, and action for decolonizing and anti-oppressive nursing. In J. Ross-Kerr & M. Wood (Eds.), Canadian nursing: Issues and perspectives, 6th Edition. Elsevier Mosby.

Kennedy, A., Bourque Bearskin, R.L., &; Freija, K. (2021). Commitment to positive change: Structural anti-racism audit of nursing education programs. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 3(1), 4-6.

Kennedy, A., Bourque Bearskin, R.L., Bourque, D.H., Bourque, D.E., & Cardinal, S. (2021). Reconciling taking the "Indian" out of the nurse. Quality Advancement in Nursing, 7(1), 6.

McAtackney, D., Gaspard, G., Sullivan, D., Bourque Bearskin, R.L., & Sebastian, M. (2021). Improving dementia care for Gitxsan First Nations People. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 16(1), 118-145.

Padley, M., Bourque Bearskin, L., Burd, L., Bergevin, D., McCuaig, D., Mercredi, B., Wells, P. et al. (2025). Nurturing Métis youth wellness: Kehtêyak perspectives on identity, community, spirituality, and wholistic connection. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 21(1), 1-14. 

Power, T., Wilson, D., Best, O., Brockie, T., Bourque Bearskin, L., Millender, E., & Lowe, J. (2020). COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples: An imperative for action. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(15-16), 27372741.

Publications

Caron, N.R., Adam, W., Anderson, K., Boswell, B.T., Chongo, M., Deineko, V., Dick, A., Hall, S.E., Hatcher, J.T., Howard, P., Hunt, M., Linn, K., & O’Neill, A. (2023). Partnering with First Nations in northern British Columbia Canada to reduce inequity in access to genomic research. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(10), 5783.

Caron, N.R., Chongo, M., Hudson, M., Arbour, L., Wasserman, W.W., Robertson, S., Correard, S., & Wilcox, P. (2020). Indigenous genomic databases: Pragmatic considerations and cultural contexts. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 111.

Cassidy-Matthews, C., Pearce, M., Hussaini, T., Spittal, P., Caron, N., & Daley, C. (2024). “My feelings and my thoughts are my lived experience, not the numbers they show me on a piece of paper”: Indigenous experiences of liver transplantation in British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 83(1), 2359747.

Chongo, M., Lavoie, J.G., Mignone, J., Caron, N.R., Harder, H.G., & Chase, R. (2020). Indigenous men adhering to highly active antiretroviral therapy: Navigating through culturally unsafe spaces while caring for their health. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 569733.

Hudson, M., Garrison, N.A., Sterling, R., Caron, N.R., Fox, K., Yracheta, J., Anderson, J. et al. (2020). Rights, interests and expectations: Indigenous perspectives on unrestricted access to genomic data. Nature Reviews Genetics, 21, 377-384.

McVicor, J.A., Poon, A., Caron, N.R., Bould, D., Nickerson, J.W., Ahmad, N., Kimmarliardjuk, D.M., et al. (2021). Postoperative outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in Canada: A systematic review. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 193(20), E713-E722.

Waanders, A., Brown, A., Caron, N.R., Plisiewicz, A., McHugh, S.T., Nguyen, T.Q., et al. (2023). Indigenous Peoples and inclusion in clinical and genomic research: Understanding the history and navigating contemporary engagement. Neoplasia, 37, 100879.

Publications

Cooke, M., & Shields, T. (2024). Anti-Indigenous racism in Canadian healthcare: A scoping review of the literature. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 36(3), mzae089.

Shields, T., King, K.D., Cripps, S., Edwards, S.A., Kwong, J.C., Mecredy, G., Chaurasia, A., Douglas, O., & Cooke, M. (2025). Perspectives on vaccination among unvaccinated members of a Canadian Indigenous population. Vaccine, 47, 126665.

Sikorski, C., Leatherdale, S., & Cooke, M. (2019). Tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use among Indigenous youth attending off-reserve schools in Canada: Cross-sectional results from the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Canada, 39(6-7), 207-215.

Publications

de Leeuw, S., Greenwood, M., & Farrales, M. (2021). Indigeneity and wellness: Critically understanding the health of Indigenous Peoples and communities. In K. Chamberlain & A. Lyons (eds.), Routledge international handbook of critical issues in health and illness. Routledge.

de Leeuw, S., Larstone, R., Fell, B., Cross, N., Greenwood, M., Auerbach, K., & Sutherland, J. (2021). Educating medical students “hearts and minds”: A humanities-informed cultural immersion program in Indigenous experiential community learning. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 16(1), 87-101.

Aldred, T. L., Alderfer‐Mumma, C., de Leeuw, S., Farrales, M., Greenwood, M., Hoogeveen, D., ... & Sloan Morgan, V. (2021). Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia. The Canadian Geographer, 65(1), 82-96.

Josewski, V., de Leeuw, S., & Greenwood, M. (2023). Grounding wellness: Coloniality, placeism, land, and a critique of “social” determinants of Indigenous mental health in the Canadian context. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5), 4319.