Approaches to Community Wellbeing: Anishininiiwug Ajimoowin Animisewiinan - Mental Health and Substance Use Report.

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PHAC employees

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Welcome to the Ontario NEIHR Monthly Webinar Series 2024/2025!

Join us on November 7th, 2024 with guest speakers Angie Morris and Nghia Nguyen, from the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority!

Presentation Title: Approaches to Community Wellbeing: Anishininiiwug Ajimoowin Animisewiinan - Mental Health and Substance Use Report.

Abstract: Angie and Nghia Nguyen will be presenting the “Anishininiiwug Ajimoowin Animisewiinan - Mental Health and Substance Use Report among Sioux Lookout area First Nations community members”. The presentation includes study approaches (research questions, Steering Committee), data collection tools and process (quantitative data, Indigenous Knowledge Gathering, and other sources of data), and the key findings. The full report can be found at https://www.slfnha.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MWSU_Report_Web.pdf.

Speaker bios:

Angie Morris is Aninishinew from Muskrat Dam First Nation, Treaty 9, where she was born and raised. She grew up in a small First Nations community with robust forest surrounded by lakes and rivers. Angie also grew up learning how to utilize and harvest traditional medicines to help her in her healing work with the communities she works with. She also still lives and practices her traditional lifestyle of harvesting and preparing wild game to help sustain her family.

She currently works as the Mental Wellness Lead with the Preventing Chronic Diseases program with the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority.

Angie has collaborated with different research projects over the 20 years of her working career, ranging from internet communications and technologies, mental health, and public health. She is an original language speaker who values the contributions of research efforts of her area and for her people.

Nghia Nguyen, PhD. has been the Epidemiologist for Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority since 2021. Prior to that, he worked as a faculty/researcher at the University of Waterloo, Centre for Population Health Impact. Before moving to Canada, he worked for the New York State Department of Health as a Research Specialist and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an Epidemiologist/Monitoring and Evaluation. Nghia Nguyen had a medical background and worked as a medical doctor specialized in Obstetrics/Gynecology in Vietnam for more than 10 years. He graduated with a PhD degree in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US.

Nghia has skills and experience in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from methodology to practical public health issues, especially with study design, data collection tool development, data management, analysis, interpretation, and reporting. He has a number of papers and books published in the field of Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology.