> Backgrounder on John O’Neil
Backgrounder on John O’Neil
January 9, 2008
Prior to coming to SFU, John O’Neil was:
Director of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research. He was also professor and head of the department of community health sciences in the University of Manitoba’s faculty of medicine.
O’Neil is an expert on a variety of aboriginal health issues, including self-government and health system development, cultural understandings of environmental health risks and social determinants of health disparities. He was a CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Senior Investigator and was the founding chair of the Advisory Board for the CIHR Institute for Aboriginal People’s Health (2000 to 2006).
O’Neil served as the research advisor to the health policy team for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in 1995/96. He is currently on the Science Advisory Board of Health Canada, the Advisory Board of the National Collaborating Centre on Aboriginal Health at the Public Health Agency of Canada, the First Nations, Inuit and Metis Advisory Committee of the Board of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and the Advisory Board of the Canada Northwest Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Research Network.
O’Neil helped develop health information systems using provincial and federal data to support research and policy development for aboriginal communities nationally.
O’Neil worked on global indigenous health issues in circumpolar regions, Australia and Latin America.
He is principal investigator on several training grants designed to build local public-health capacity in China and India in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention.
He has published several papers and reports on the cultural context of HIV/AIDS prevention in India.
O’Neil’s teaching areas are: critical public health, global indigenous health development, and participatory approaches to health research.
O’Neil has a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California (San Francisco/Berkeley).
O’Neil is a native of Toronto who now lives in Port Moody.
Director of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research. He was also professor and head of the department of community health sciences in the University of Manitoba’s faculty of medicine.
O’Neil is an expert on a variety of aboriginal health issues, including self-government and health system development, cultural understandings of environmental health risks and social determinants of health disparities. He was a CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Senior Investigator and was the founding chair of the Advisory Board for the CIHR Institute for Aboriginal People’s Health (2000 to 2006).
O’Neil served as the research advisor to the health policy team for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in 1995/96. He is currently on the Science Advisory Board of Health Canada, the Advisory Board of the National Collaborating Centre on Aboriginal Health at the Public Health Agency of Canada, the First Nations, Inuit and Metis Advisory Committee of the Board of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and the Advisory Board of the Canada Northwest Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Research Network.
O’Neil helped develop health information systems using provincial and federal data to support research and policy development for aboriginal communities nationally.
O’Neil worked on global indigenous health issues in circumpolar regions, Australia and Latin America.
He is principal investigator on several training grants designed to build local public-health capacity in China and India in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention.
He has published several papers and reports on the cultural context of HIV/AIDS prevention in India.
O’Neil’s teaching areas are: critical public health, global indigenous health development, and participatory approaches to health research.
O’Neil has a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California (San Francisco/Berkeley).
O’Neil is a native of Toronto who now lives in Port Moody.