The research is led by Dr. Caroline Tait (PhD), a medical anthropologist with expertise in gender and cultural safety in the USask College of Medicine and a member of Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN–S), and Dr. Simon Lambert (PhD), an Indigenous (Māori) researcher in the College of Arts and Science with expertise in Indigenous disaster risk reduction, and a member of the Tūhoe and Ngāti Ruapani tribes from Aotearoa New Zealand. Dr. Tait leads the FMHRN Saskatchewan’s Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) centre, and this team co-leads the national co-ordinating centre for the nine NEIHR networks across Canada, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
A $650,000 grant from the TD Bank Group will see researchers from the First Nations and Métis Health Research Network (FMHRN) which is based at USask work with partners Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) and Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN–S). The research is led by Dr. Caroline Tait (PhD), a medical anthropologist with expertise in gender and cultural safety in the USask College of Medicine and a member of MN–S and Dr. Simon Lambert (PhD), an Indigenous (Māori) researcher in the College of Arts and Science with expertise in Indigenous disaster risk reduction, and a member of the Tūhoe and Ngāti Ruapani tribes from Aotearoa New Zealand.