Atmos Indigenous Fellows

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Erika is an ally settler and a recent graduate of the doctoral program in Global Health at McMaster University. 

She examined the referral patterns involved in evacuating First Nations peoples to hospitals, as well as described perinatal care culture and its influence on the provision of care to evacuees for birth. Based on the data, she described structures of oppression within perinatal care culture, as well as anti- oppressive practices implemented by care providers, health organizations, and systems, which support the return of birth back to First Nations communities. She concluded with recommendations for practices and policy changes with health systems to redress structural oppression by uplifting Indigenous midwifery and creating anti-oppressive perinatal care cultures across Turtle Island.

Lisa is a member of Deninu K'ue First Nation in the Northwest Territories and is an interdisciplinary artist with a doctoral degree from the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine. Lisa uses digital images as a pedagogical strategy to bridge gaps between medical ethics and aspects of Indigenous cultures and worldviews. She undertaken arts-based research that utilizes Indigenous ways of knowing to address the colonial barriers that Indigenous patients navigate in the current healthcare system. Lisa strives to humanize clinical medicine as she situates her art in the Indigenous continuum of passing knowledge through images. Lisa is an Indigenous bioethicist.