Dr. Bharadwaj is an interdisciplinary toxicologist and community engaged scholar. She has had the opportunity and privilege of working with Indigenous peoples for over 23 years, building respectful research relationships and co-creating solutions in water and health related research areas.
Centennial Enhancement Chair in Mechanistic Environmental Toxicology, Director - Toxicology Centre, Faculty Member - Global Water Futures (GWF) program, Member - Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS)
Alejandra is a public health professional with experience in community health, epidemiology, and biostatistics. Her work has focused on public health research that informs clinical and public health practice on dementia, loneliness, aging, and shingles in conjunction with HIV; and communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, and Chagas disease. More recently, her community health work has centered around immigrant women's health and HIV-specific Projects, Programs, and Interventions in Saskatchewan. Alejandra is now assisting in analyses of data and the planning of the symposium: Building the Future: The Built Environment in Saskatchewan First Nation communities.
Huiqing is a professor at the College of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She works on in-door air quality control, building HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) and energy saving technologies, environment control for agricultural buildings (greenhouses, vertical farming, animal barns), and air emission measurement and dispersion modelling.
Councillor and community member from Montreal Lake Cree Nation
Dr. Lawson's primary areas of interest are pediatric asthma and respiratory epidemiology but he is also interested in various aspects of child health, lung health, and rural health. The majority of his research program is focused on the urban-rural gradient and the reasons for geographic variation in childhood asthma. He has been involved in several population based studies as well as studies using large administrative and research based databases.
As a participatory health researcher in primary health care settings, Dr. Ramsden is a passionate advocate of authentic engagement, co-creation and action research. Primary health care research also involves strategies to engage individuals, organizations and communities in identifying and addressing locally-relevant issues that impact health and wellness. Thus, in collaboration with several Indigenous communities in northern Saskatchewan and a number in South India, she is engaged in research that is co-created, co-designed, co-developed, co-presented and co-authored with the communities.
Dr. Penelope C. Sanz has conducted extensive ethnographic research on mining among the Indigenous Peoples in Southern Philippines for her doctoral studies. In 2022, her autoethnographic dissertation won the prestigious Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award in the Traditional Category of the International Institute for Qualitative Inquiry. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is currently part of a multi-disciplinary research team investigating the First Nations and Métis built environment. Dr. Sanz lectures at the Ateneo de Davao University in Southern Philippines and at the University of Saskatchewan/St. Thomas More College. She is also the managing editor of the Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-based Research, Teaching and Learning, and the Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development.
Jeremy was born and raised around and on the Beardy's and Okemasis Cree Nation. Jeremy became the Health Director for the Willow Cree Health Centre in 2012 and elected as a Councilor in 2014. Jeremy served on Chief and Council for Beardy's and Okemasis Cree Nation until 2022. Jeremy has worked with Drs. Dosman, Pahwa, Kirychuk and Karunanayake since 2012 on the First Nations Lung Health, Sleep Health, Mental Health and the Built Environment projects and continues to help move those projects forward.
