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Anisnabe Kekendazone - The Ottawa ACADRE, 2002-present
One of the first waves of Aboriginal Capacity and Development Research Environment (ACADRE) centres funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Anisnabe Kekendazone Ottawa ACADRE supports the training of Aboriginal health researchers through fellowships and seed grants at masters, doctoral and post-doctoral levels. This funding helps Aboriginal health researchers take part in national and international health research that is relevant to the wellbeing of Aboriginal communities and attuned to their worldview.
The Ottawa ACADRE was established in a partnership between CIETcanada and the University of Ottawa, where it is physically located. An all-Aboriginal advisory board reviews all research proposals and decides on funding, with technical input from CIET and the University. The board is made up of voluntaries from the five national Aboriginal organizations: Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP), Métis National Council (MNC), Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) and Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC).
The Ottawa ACADRE has spawned or sustained several community-led participatory research projects across Canada, built community capacities for research and evidence-led planning, established an all-Aboriginal ethics review process, and mentored Aboriginal organizations who wished to expand their own research capacities.
In November 2003, the Ottawa and Alberta ACADRE centres together hosted a Colloquium on ethics in Aboriginal health research, contributing to the nationwide effort to update the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans in this area.
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Participants at the ACADRE-hosted meeting on ethics in Aboriginal health research held in November 2003. |
Since March 2002, the Ottawa ACADRE has granted 20 postgraduate research fellowships. In addition, it has funded 16 seed projects, which led to successful research proposals totalling $9 million in longer-term Aboriginal operating grants, covering crucial health issues as perinatal health, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, youth risk and resilience, and knowledge transfer. These projects employed and trained 20 emerging Aboriginal researchers.
Since the inception of the Ottawa ACADRE, the University of Ottawa has opened a stream of eight designated positions for Aboriginal medical students.
At the same time, the ACADRE-sponsored research partnerships have sparked interest in Aboriginal health on the part of non-Aboriginal researchers: of 15 non-Aboriginal co-investigators who received ACADRE support, only two had previously worked in Aboriginal health.
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Anisnabe Kekendazone fellowships 2002-2007
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Student Name |
Degree |
University |
Project Title |
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Armstrong, Kevin |
MHA |
University of Ottawa |
Public health surveillance as sovereignty: The Aboriginal component of the National Diabetes Surveillance System |
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Boyer, Yvonne |
LLM |
University of Ottawa |
Is there room for healing in the law? |
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Boyer, Yvonne |
PhD |
University of Ottawa |
First Nations, Métis and Inuit health and the law: A consititutional framework for the future |
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Brass, Gregory |
PhD |
McGill University |
Speaking of cancer on the path to healing |
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Ghosh, Hasu |
MA |
Carleton University |
Antecedents and social consequences of type 2 diabetes mellitus among First Nations women of Eastern Ontario |
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Goudreau, Ghislaine |
MSc |
University of Alberta |
Exploring the connection between Aboriginal women's hand drumming and health promotion (Mino-Bimaadziwin) |
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du Hamel, Paula |
PhD |
Charles Strut University, NSW, Australia |
How psycho-social, economic, educational and environmental factors impact on the socialization experiences of Aboriginal youth |
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Harper, Anita Olsen |
PhD |
University of Ottawa |
Community-led reducation of domestic violence in Aboriginal communities: rebuilding from resilience |
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Jacobs, Kahá:wi |
PhD |
McGill University |
A contextual analysis of physical and sexual violence among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in Montreal |
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Koebel, Jamie |
MSc |
Carleton University |
Emergin identities of Aboriginal youth |
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Laplante, Dorothy |
MSc |
University of Ottawa |
Family violence decision making/harm reduction tool: assisting and supporting clients presently experiencing family violence |
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Lessard, Lily |
MSc |
Universite Laval |
Collaboration in isolated areas: The case of Eastern James Bay Cree Territories (Eeyou Istchee) |
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McKay, Celeste |
LLM |
University of Ottawa |
Health rights of Canadian indigenous women |
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McShane, Kelly |
PhD |
University of Montreal |
Knowledge translation and indigenous health knowledge: How participatory action research and enhance involvement in health promotion for an urban Inuit community |
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Moffitt, Pertice |
PhD |
University of Calgary |
Perinatal health beliefs and health promotion practices among Tlicho women |
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Paul, Kenneth William |
MSc |
McGill University |
Correlates of psychological distress amongst Inuit in Nunavik, Quebec |
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Smith, Dawn |
PhD |
University of Ottawa |
Measuring neighbourhood supportiveness of early childhood development in Aboriginal communities |
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Smylie, Janet |
MPH |
John Hopkins University |
Research plan to investigate the significance of high birth weight among First Nations infants in Saskatchewan |
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Wilson, Alexandria |
PhD |
Harvard University |
N'Tacimowin inna nah': Coming in to two-spirit identities |
Anisnabe Kekendazone seed projects completed and submitted to CIHR
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Researcher |
Project title |
CIHR application title |
Funding awarded |
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Dawn Caldwell |
Building community resilience: addressing suicide among Aboriginal youth in Atlantic Canada |
Aboriginal Community Youth Resilience Network (ACYRN): community-led research and resources to prevent youth suicide |
$1,442,742
(5 years) |
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Larry Chartrand |
Justice healing process as an indicator in Aboriginal community health and well-being (joint proposal with Sharmila Mhatre) |
Community-led reduction of domestic violence in Aboriginal communities: rebuilding from resilience |
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Jacqueline Ellis |
Building capacity for the development of pain education materials for Inuit children and families |
Establishing the reliability and validity of the Northern Pain Scale for use with Inuit Children and Adults |
$71,419.00
(1 year) |
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Robert J. Flynn |
Implementation and impact of the Community that Cares model of primary prevention of adolescent problem behaviours in the Aboriginal community of Sudbury, Ontario |
Aboriginal community solutions to increase resilience |
$300, 000.00
(3 years) |
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Nancy Edwards/ Donna Lockett |
Building community capacity for preventing falls among the on-reserve First Nations elderly population |
First Nations fall prevention: Elders for community action and multiple interventions at Akwesasne and the partner communities |
$ 223,973.00
(3 years) |
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Joe Losos / Bev Shea |
Promotion of children’s health through immunization: understanding the challenges of a vaccination strategy in Aboriginal communities |
Knowledge and attitudes about immunization in Aboriginal communities |
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Anita Olsen Harper / Sharmila Mhatre |
Social audit of family violence in Aboriginal communities. A proposal for building the foundation. |
Community-led reduction of domestic violence in Aboriginal communities: rebuilding from resilience |
$2,465,996.00
(5 years) |
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Steve Mitchell |
Knowledge translation using geomatics in planning for Aboriginal health |
Submitted to Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) |
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Kevin Barlow / Joyce Seto |
Sexual Violence, HIV/AIDS & Aboriginal Women |
Sexual violence, HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women |
$293,638.00
(3 years) |
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Janet Smylie |
Birth Weight as an indicator of infant health among Saskatchewan First Nations |
Standing our ground, seeking understanding: A participatory training program to enhance health research in Aboriginal communities |
$ 1,799,862.00
(6 years) (under review) |
Anisnabe Kekendazone: active/under review seed projects (as of April 2007)
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Researcher |
Project title |
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Gregory Brass |
Speaking of Cancer in the Search for Healing: Identity, Medical Pluralism and the Metastasis of Knowledge in the First Nations Communities – submitted for seed funding |
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Susan Chatwood |
Dietary choices in Aklavik, youth and elders promoting change |
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Anita Olsen Harper / Sharmila Mhatre |
Social audit of family violence in Aboriginal communities. A proposal for building the foundation |
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Celeste McKay |
Impact of violence on the sexual and reproductive health of urban Aboriginal women – submitted for seed funding |
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Dawn Smith |
Learning from success: First Nations communities’ approaches to prenatal care |
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A. Kirsten Woodend |
A novel community-based approach to detecting diabetes and improving diabetes care in First Nations peoples |
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