Topic: Public Health Crises and Indigenous Health

Brief: The purpose of this journal club is to examine how public health crises such as pandemics impact Indigenous peoples and communities in Canada. Knowledge sharing will focus on the response of health systems through a series of key questions for collective exploration.

Speakers: Anika Sehgal and Kayla Fitzpatrick

Resources:

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Charania, N. A., & Tsuji, L. J. (2011). The 2009 H1N1 pandemic response in remote First Nation communities of Subarctic Ontario: barriers and improvements from a health care services perspective. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 70(5), 564-575.

Richardson, L., & Crawford, A. (2020). COVID-19 and the decolonization of Indigenous public health. CMAJ, 192(38), E1098-E1100.