Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grants - Institute/Initiative Community Support

A collective of Indigenous and allied health researchers proposes to host a three-day Indigenous Wellness knowledge mobilization and planning event to identify knowledge gaps in Indigenous Wellness and distinctions-based approaches in graduate education in Canada and beyond. We want to gather on April 7-9, 2027 to share findings from two CIHR-funded research projects exchange current research priorities with national and International Indigenous scholars; and strengthen our network to develop a research strategy and apply for a CIHR Operating Grant in Fall 2027. While the Reclaiming and Recovering Indigenous Knowledge in Graduate Nursing Education: Intergenerational Learning with Communities IGEN (CIHR Project Grant 2022-27, NPI Bourque Bearskin) and Sharing Medicine Bundles and Pathways to Community Wellness SMB (CIHR Project Grant 2022-27, NPI Cardinal) projects are distinct, their focus on sustaining Indigenous Wellness and Intergenerational Knowledge makes their research highly complementary. We propose to gather our existing networks as guests on the WSANEC lands in face-to-face and virtual formats to share our learnings, identify knowledge gaps, and to strengthen local, provincial, national, and global linkages. We can then activate this knowledge to devise a research plan to fill the gaps in sustaining Indigenous Wellness Graduate Studies, PhD programs specifically, that are community-led, rooted in land-based learning, attending to principles of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and Indigenous Research Methodologies; and articulate a distinctions-based traditional health knowledge systems project grant as the next phase of the collaborative research alliance we have developed.