Indigenous Health Researchers Database

Selected Publications

Mardones, V., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). The biocultural context for development of a community-based enterprise: Nunatsiavut Inuit Knowledge and perspectives on the use of medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 22, 1-13. https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/2863

Norton, C. H., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). People and plants in Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada): Examining plants as a foundational aspect of culture in the Subarctic. Economic Botany, 75, 287-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12231-021-09530-7 

Cuerrier, A., Clark, C., Samuel-Dwyer, F., & Rapinski, M. (2022). Nunatsiavut, 'Our beautiful land': Inuit landscape ethnoecology in Labrador, Canada. Botany, 100(2), 159-174.

Elliott, H.L., Mulrennan, M.E., & Cuerrier, A. (2022). ‘We have a lot of (un)learning to do’: Whiteness and decolonial prefiguration in a food movement organization. Settler Colonial Studies, 13(2), 194-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2022.2077900

Joseph, L., Cuerrier, A., & Mathews, D. (2021). Shifting narratives, recognizing resilience: New anti-oppressive and decolonial approaches to ethnobotanical research with Indigenous communities in Canada. Botany, 100(2). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0111

Joseph, L., Mathews, D., Boulos, L.T., & Cuerrier, A. (2025). The Yetwánaý Project: A Skwxwú7mesh case study for land and plant-based health and wellness. International Journal for Indigenous Health, 21(1).

Mardones, V., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). Developing a community-based enterprise: Nunatsiavut Inuit knowledge and perspectives on the use of medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 22, 1-13.

Turner, N.J., & Cuerrier, A. (2021). ‘Frog’s umbrella’ and ‘ghost’s face powder’: The cultural roles of mushrooms and other fungi for Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Botany, 100(2). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0052

Turner, N.J., Cuerrier, A., & Joseph, L. (2022). Well grounded: Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, ethnobiology and sustainability. People and Nature, 4(3), 627-651.

Selected Publications

Gifford, W., Larocque, C., & Dick, P. (2022). Culturally safe cancer care for Indigenous people: Nursing practice beyond the rhetoric. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 26(4), 443-448.

Gifford, W., Rowan, M., Dick, P., Modanloo, S., Benoit, M., Al Awar, Z., Wazni, L., Grandpierre, V. et al. (2021). Interventions to improve cancer survivorship among Indigenous Peoples and communities: A systematic review with a narrative synthesis. Supportive Care in Cancer, 29, 7029-7048. DOI 10.1007/s00520-021-06216-7

Gifford, W., Thomas, O., Thomas, R., Grandpierre, V., & Ukagwu, C. (2019). Spirituality in cancer survivorship with First Nations people in Canada. Supportive Care in Cancer, 27(8), 2969-76. DOI: 10.1007/s00520-018-4609-z.

Gifford, W., Thomas, R., Barton, G., & Graham, I.D. (2019). Providing culturally safe cancer survivorship care with Indigenous communities: Study protocol for an integrated knowledge translation study. BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 5, 33. DOI: 10.1186/s40814-019-0422-9.

Gifford, W., Thomas, R., Barton, G., Grandpierre, V., & Graham, I.D. (2018). “Breaking the silence” to improve cancer survivorship care for First Nations peoples: A study protocol for an Indigenous knowledge translation strategy. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17(1), DOI: 10.1177/1609406918774133.

Dick, P., Gifford, W., Modanloo, S., & Wasni, L. (2021, December 10). Co-creating culturally safe cancer survivorship care with Pikwakanagan First Nations. Compassion House Foundation. https://compassionhouse.org/co-creating-culturally-safe-cancer-survivorship-care-with-pikwakanagan-first-nations/

Enuaraq, S., Gifford, W., Ashton, S., Al Awar, Z., Larocque, C., & Rolf, D. (2021). Understanding culturally safe cancer survivorship care with Inuit in an urban community. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 80(1). DOI 10.1080/22423982.2021.1949843

Hammond, C., Gifford, W., Thomas, R., Rabaa, S., Thomas, O., & Domecq,M.-C. (2018). Arts-based research methods with Indigenous peoples: An international scoping review. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 14(3), 260-76. DOI: 10.1177/1177180118796870.

Hammond, C., Thomas, R., Gifford, W., Poudrier, J., Scott, T., Brooks, C., Hamilton, R. et al. (2017). Cycles of silence: First Nations women overcoming social and historical barriers in supportive cancer care. Psycho-Oncology, 26(2), 191-198. DOI: 10.1002/pon.4335.

Larocque, C., Foth, T., & Gifford, W. (2022). “Nothing about us without us!” Really?: The unequal value of lives in harm reduction NGOs. Somatosphere, March 25. http://somatosphere.net/2022/unequal-value-lives-harm-reduction-drug-use-ngos-canada.html/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Larocque, C., Foth, T., & Gifford, W. (2021). No more settler tears, no more humanitarian consternation: Recognizing our racist history and present NOW! Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 3(1), 7–10. DOI 10.25071/2291-5796.107

Thomas, R. Gifford, W., Poudrier, J., Rheault, A., & Shallwani, S. (2022). “We need to work hand in hand”: Supporting cancer survivorship care with First Nations and Métis peoples in Canada via video. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 19(1), 91-100.

Thomas, R., Novy,C., Gifford, W., Grandpierre, V., Poudrier, J., & Thomas, O. (2019). Exploring the intersections of storytelling and visual arts: Indigenous peoples’ experiences of cancer. Storytelling, Self, Society, 15(1), 71-91.

Selected Publications

Bene Watts, S., Gauthier, B., Erickson, A.C., Morrison, J., Sebastian, M., Gillman, L. … McCormick, R., et al. (2024). A mild phenotype associated with KCNQ1p.V205M mediated long QT syndrome in First Nations children of northern British Columbia: Effect of additional variants and considerations for management. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 12, 1394105.

McCormick, R. (2020). Indigenous North American healing. In R. Moodley & E. Lee (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of race, culture and mental health (Chapter 40). Routledge.

Ansloos, J., Fellner, K., Goodwill, A., Stewart, S., Mushquash, C., McCormick, R., Harder, H. (2019) Indigenous mental health training in psychology: Understanding the challenges and next steps. Psynopsis, 1.

Ansloos, J., Stewart, S., Fellner, K., Goodwill, A., Graham, H., McCormick, R., Harder, H., & Mushquash, C. (2019). Indigenous peoples and professional training in psychology in Canada. Canadian Psychology, 60(4), 265-280

Brussoni, M., George, M.A., Jin, A., Amram, O., & McCormick, R. (2018). Hospitalizations due to unintentional transport injuries among Aboriginal population of British Columbia, Canada: Incidence, changes over time and ecological analysis of risk markers. PLOS ONE 13(2), e0193218.

Huisman, L.-A., Bene Watts, S., Arbour, L., & McCormick, R. (2020). Understanding the personal and community impact of long QT syndrome: A perspective from Gitxsan women. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 29(4), 562-573.

Selected Publications

Richmond, C., & Dokis, B. (2023). “We make it work because we must”: Narrating the creation of an urban Indigenous food bank in London, Ontario, Canada. Land, 12(11), 2028.

Richmond, C., Bezner Kerr, R., Neufeld, H., Steckley, M., Wilson, K., & Dokis, B. (2021). Supporting food security for Indigenous families through the restoration of Indigenous foodways. The Canadian Geographer, 65(1), 97-109.

Richmond, C., Big-Canoe, K., Abram, H., Mandawe, E., Mohamed, R., & Reitmeier, V. (2022). The health impacts of social distancing among Indigenous people in Ontario during the first wave of COVID-19. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 17(1), 28-4.

Richmond, C., Castleden, H., & Gabel, C. (2021). Practicing self-determination to protect Indigenous health in COVID-19: Lessons for this pandemic and similar futures. In A.G.J. Crooks et al. (eds.), COVID-19 and similar futures. Global perspectives on health geography (pp. 307-312). Springer, Cham.

Richmond, C., Steckley, M., Neufeld, H., Bezner Kerr, R., Wilson, K., & Dokis, B. (2020). First Nations food environments: Exploring the role of place, income, and social connection. Current Developments in Nutrition, 4(8), nzaa108. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa108.

Ambtman-Smith, V., & Richmond, C. (2020). Reimagining Indigenous spaces of healing: Institutional environmental repossession. Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, 1(1), 27-36.

Ambtman-Smith, V.N., Crawford, A., D’Hondt, J., Lindstone, W., Linklater, R., Longboat, D., & Richmond, C. (2024). Incorporating First Nations, Inuit and Métis traditional healing spaces within a hospital context: A place-based study of three unique spaces within Canada’s oldest and largest mental health hospital. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(3), 282.

Ambtman-Smith, V.N., Linklater, R., & Richmond, C.A.M. (2025). “They’re not just fire pits, they’re Sacred Fires”: Traditional healing spaces as sites of anticolonial resistance in a Toronto hospital. Social Science & Medicine, 382, 118365.

Nightingale, E., & Richmond, C. (2022). Reclaiming land, identity and mental wellness in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Territory. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7285.

Nightingale, E., & Richmond, C.A.M. (2022). Building structures of environmental repossession to reclaim land, self-determination and Indigenous wellness. Health & Place, 73, 102725.

Nightingale, E., & Richmond, C.A. (2021). Reclaiming Mountain Lake: Applying environmental repossession in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Territory, Canada. Social Science & Medicine, 272, 113706.

Selected Publications

Tan, J.C.H. (2020).  Incorporating Indigenous contexts in Canadian clinical psychology training programs.  In G. Rich et al. (Eds.). Teaching psychology around the world, Vol. 5. (pp. 418-429). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Tan, J.C.H., & Person, S. (2025). Alignment of the general guiding principles in the Canadian Psychological Association’s response to the truth and reconciliation report with the Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists. Canadian Psychology, 67(1), 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000457.

Tan, J.C.H., & Person, S. (in press).  Violence against Indigenous women, colonization, and Indigenous-led solutions.  In E. Congress, U. Gielen, J. Gibbons, & M. Malley (Eds.), Global perspectives on gender. Emerald Publishing.

Tan, J.C.H., Zarghamifard, M., Kenkel, M. B., & Tang, L. (2026).  Leadership experiences of women leaders in three countries from gender and ethnicity perspectives.  In J. E. Trimble, J. C. H. Tan, & A. Jiménez-Luque (Eds.), Building bridges to inclusive leadership through the lens of cultural narratives (pp. 121-145). Cognella.

Person, S. & Tan, J.C.H. (2021). Factors associated with resilience among post-secondary Indigenous students.  In L. Forsythe and J. Markides (Eds.), A collective journey - walking together in Indigenous research (pp. 131-136).  DIO Press, Inc. 

Person, S., Tan, J.C.H., & Yazici, R. (2026).  Five case studies of Canadian First Nations leadership conceptualization and style. In J. E. Trimble, J. C. H. Tan, & A. Jiménez-Luque (Eds.), Building bridges to inclusive leadership through the lens of cultural narratives (pp. 103-119). Cognella.