The Conference Board of Canada: Indigenous Representation in Healthcare—May 2025

Press Release

May 14, 2025

Indigenous healthcare professionals can play an important role in addressing health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. This online experience examines Indigenous representation in primary care occupations in Canada.

Indigenous Professionals Needed: Increasing Indigenous representation in Healthcare in Canada

In this research, we undertake a quantitative analysis of Indigenous representation in primary care occupations in Canada based on national data from Statistics Canada’s Census of Population for 2016 and 2021.

Why does Indigenous representation in healthcare matter? How significant is the current gap in representation? What factors are limiting greater Indigenous representation in primary care occupations in Canada?

Read the online experience to get our full analysis.

Cette publication est disponible en français.

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