Visit the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia from now through January 7, 2018 to view the Art from the Heart exhibition! Mi'kmaw artist Alan Sylliboy facilitated workshops in four participating First Nations communities for children and youth which resulted in the artworks now on view in the exhibition. Click here for more details. ...
Have you heard about PICH2Go Indigenous? ACHH is hosting this amazing event at the IWK Health Centre, October 11-12! This Pain in Child Health conference has a unique focus on Indigenous children and brings together clinicians, researchers and students! The ACHH Initiative is sponsoring 10 Indigenous attendees to offset travel...
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, 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...
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...
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...