Health research should distinguish Indigenous populations, PhD student says – UM Today
April 4, 2024 —
When discussing Indigenous health in Manitoba, researchers and health professionals need to consider the distinctions between First Nations, Inuit, Métis and the urban Indigenous population, a PhD student at the College of Nursing said at a recent conference.
“A pan-Indigenous umbrella is not going to work in the province when we talk about health and health systems planning,” Stephanie Van Haute said.
Van Haute has been a practicing registered nurse for over 20 years and currently works as a patient services director for the Indigenous health program at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
She was one of three speakers at the 14th annual Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) Conference hosted by UM’s Graduate Nursing Students’ Association at the Helen Glass Centre for Nursing at Fort Garry campus on March 20. The conference’s overall theme was on intersectoral collaboration in health care.
At Shared Health, Van Haute, a Métis woman, sits on a disrupting racism working group which aims to reduce harm from the impacts of colonization, including racism, through a broader lens.
