Indigenous health research gets federal funding valued at over $300,000 – MyToba

July 28, 2015

Indigenous health research is at the forefront at UWinnipeg thanks to funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) that was announced today. Dr. Mary Jane McCallum (History) and Lorena Fontaine (Indigenous Studies) have been granted generous support for their respective projects.

McCallum received a three-year CIHR Operating Grant worth $254,286 for her project Indigenous Histories of Tuberculosis (TB) in Manitoba 1930-1970. The goal of this project is to re-establish Manitoba’s Indigenous authority over their health through an examination of the history of TB from archival records, oral histories and through extensive knowledge translation.

Fontaine received a $100,000 one year grant under the CIHR Institute for Aboriginal Health ‘Aboriginal Ways of Knowing and Two-eyed Seeing’ Priority Area. Fontaine’s project Mite Achimowin (Heart Talk) First Nations Women in Winnipeg and Opaskwayak Cree Nations Expressions of Heart Health is a study of oral-history community-based Indigenized study utilizing digital story-telling.

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