Developing and maintaining research partnerships with Aboriginal communities and organizations: The Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project
A talk by Dr. Ann C. Macaulay, Professor of Family Medicine, 成人VR视频 Department of Family Medicine, and Director of Participatory Research at 成人VR视频 (PRAM), and Morgan Kahentonni Phillips, research assistant and MA student in the area of Indigenous mental health research.
The event will be followed by a wine & cheese for all in attendance.
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About the speakers
Ann C. Macaulay CM, MD, FCFP, is a Professor of Family Medicine at 成人VR视频, Inaugural Director of Participatory Research at 成人VR视频 (PRAM) opened in 2006, whose mission is promote all forms of participatory research and further the academic understanding of this approach to research.
Ann C. Macaulay first started using a participatory research approach in 1994, and from 1994-2006 she was scientific director of the (KSDPP) funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
This ongoing project uses a participatory research partnership between the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, Quebec and neighboring universities to promote healthy lifestyles for the primary prevention of Type 2 diabetes in Kahnawake and Aboriginal communities across Canada.
Dr Macaulay was a practicing family physician in Kahnawake from 1970 to 2008. She was born in the UK, graduated from a Scottish medical school, and immigrated to Canada in 1969.
Morgan Kahentonni Phillips is a Kanien'keh谩:ka (Mohawk) from the community of Kahnawake and is of the wolf clan. She graduated with a BA Honours in Anthropology from Concordia University in June 2008, and is currently at the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia working through her M.A. in the area of Indigenous mental health research. She has been involved with the KSDPP since 1994.
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PHOTO of Ann C. Macaulay: Owen Egan.
