News & Updates

Take a few minutes to read this CBC News article about the pervasive racism experienced by Aboriginal people in Canada's healthcare system.  Many of the themes discussed in this article were similar to our own research findings as well. ​"Michelle Labrecque pushes herself gingerly in a wheelchair down the hallway of a hotel. The Oneida woman...

09 February, 2015

ACHH Initiative team members Margot Latimer, Kara Paul and Lisa Perley-Dutcher attended the Indigenous Health Conference at the University of Toronto last week.  Dr. Latimer and Kara Paul presented a poster on the development and content testing of the ACHH app.  It was a sold out conference with over 450 attendees...

25 November, 2014

The creation of the ACHH Initiative has been in the works for many years. The ACHH Initiative is actually an expansion of the Understanding Pediatric Pain in Aboriginal  Communities (UnPPAC) project. Check out Lost in Translation in Izaak magazine for more information on the UnPPAC project and to see where it all began! ...

24 November, 2014

Julia Wong from Global News spent some time with some of the ACHH Initiative team members at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia on November 10th.  She put together a great story about the overall goals of the ACHH Initiative and the upcoming Initiative launch. Click here to see the full story. ...

13 November, 2014

Dr. Margot Latimer and Julie Francis spoke to a packed house at Cape Breton University on November 5th, 2014 about their research, Understanding Aboriginal Children's Pain from a Two-Eyed Seeing Perspective.  The talk was hosted by Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo Willox and her Indigenous Perspectives of Health & Healing class at...

06 November, 2014
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