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Evidence-Based Approaches to Advancing Quality Care for Indigenous Peoples
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
“I want to provide culturally relevant care to Indigenous peoples – what should I do?”

In this interactive presentation, Dr. Smylie and Elder Alita Sauve will engage the audience in a practical conversation regarding key pathways and pitfalls on the journey to advance Indigenous cultural safety in health services. This will include a discussion of demonstrated tools and strategies at the health-care provider-patient; institutional; and systems levels.

Key Takeaways:
  1. The roots of anti-Indigenous racism in health care are non-Indigenous and multi-pronged, requiring multi-pronged, multi-level responses customized to the non-Indigenous sources;
  2. Critical, explicitly anti-racist, and quality-assurance focused approaches have been demonstrated to be effective;
  3. Anticipate resistance and a bumpy trail forward at all levels;
  4. Traditional Indigenous approaches are a powerful guide and protector as we do this work and will be commonly missed, misunderstood and/or distorted in translation.
Speakers
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Dr. Janet Smylie

Director, Well Living House
Dr. Smylie is the Director of the Well Living House Action Research Centre for Indigenous Infant, Child, and Family Health and Wellbeing, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations in Canada, and Professor at the Dalla Lana School... Read More →
avatar for Elder Alita Sauve
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
  Plenary Session

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