Brenda L Green

First Nations University of Canada
Canada

Abstract Title: From Takohpinawasowin to W?s?k?m? (Make a Circle) - Traditional Birthing Education for Indigenous Communities in Rural Saskatchewan, Canada

Biography:

Dr. Green background is in Mental Health Epidemiology and has been a professor at First Nations University of Canada since July 2006. Her research has primarily focussed on rural women experiences of aging and care, rural health services to northern Saskatchewan, and Indigenous women’s experiences of birthing and caregiving. She has written on various subjects such as ethics and morality in nursing, traditional experiences of birthing, racism in health care, and more recently mental health process for Indigenous university students. Dr. Green’s research focusses on collaborative and community based Indigenous research methods and teaches senior and graduate classes in this area. In particular, her current research is community driven, and community owned which has fostered and ongoing respectful relationship with various First Nations in Saskatchewan. Dr. Green is an active member of the College of Reviewers for the Canadian Institute of Health Research and has actively developed several courses on Indigenous Research Methodologies, Indigenous Research in Practice and has redeveloped Indigenous policy classes at First Nations University.

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