News & Events

“Bringing it all back home”

ACHH Student Collaborator and third year Dalhousie University Medical Sciences student, Karlee Johnson, talks about making a difference in her community. Karlee's home is Eskasoni First Nation and says she "knows her future path leads back there." Check out this amazing article written for Dalhousie News about her journey and work so...

Joe Medicine talked about his own experience as an adult being called a “stoic” person

"Joe Medicine, from the RRFN Indian Residential School Survivors Working Group, talked about his own experience as an adult being called a "stoic" person. He didn't know what the term meant until he looked it up. What he found was an unfortunate truth. Many years before, when he was just...

ACHH Team’s Success at Parliament Hill Caucus!

The ACHH Initiative's Team, Sharon Rudderham, Eskasoni First Nation Health Director, and Jocelyn Cine, Vice President of Patient Care at the IWK Health Centre were at the Indigenous Health Research Caucus on Parliament Hill on Monday, June 5th! They were able to meet Ministers, MP's, and other policy makers and share our findings about Aboriginal...

Congratulations Julie Francis, ACHH Research Trainee and Research Coordinator

ACHH Initiative's Research Trainee and Research Coordinator, Julie Francis, was named a Loretta Saunders Scholarship Awardee for 2017. This scholarship is for Indigenous women who are attending a post-secondary institution in Mi’kma’ki, Nunatsiavut, or Atlantic Canada and who have completed the equivalent of one year of post-secondary education in the previous two...

IFPP 2017 Abstract Submission Open

Dr. Nadine Caron – March 21, 2017 6pm

Join us Tuesday March 21, 2017 at 6pm for an evening event with keynote speaker Dr. Nadine Caron, the first female Indigenous Surgeon in Canada.  ACHH Initiative will be presenting  as well and a Q & A session as well as a poster display showcasing Indigenous research will take place also. ...