Congratulations to Dr. Tracy Friedel in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy and her team for their success in the CIHR Operating Grant: Pathways Implementation Research Team – Component 1 Competition!
Principal Investigators: Cynthia Jardine, Karen Abraham, Tanya Cardinal, Dale Friedel and Tracy Friedel, EDCP
Co-Investigators: Cindy Johner, Leslie Moncrieff, Rayann Ulvick, Amanda Boyd, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, and Justin Wong
Indigenous Youth as Agents of Change for Community Wellness: Promoting Resilience and Positive Youth Development
$100,000 | 1 year
Component 1 grants are provided to teams as they build relationships with First Nations, Inuit, and/or Metis communities and undertake activities that will lead to the identification of promising or effective, multi-faceted population health interventions in the areas of suicide prevention, diabetes/obesity, tuberculosis, and oral health that are based in Indigenous practices, and scalable for inclusion in later components.