Anita Manshadi

Research Manager

Areas of interest

Indigenous health, cultural safety and humility, Indigenous-specific racism, community-based research, health and wellness indicators, enviornmental health, land-based healing, primary and community care, healthy policy, Indigenization and decolonizing frameworks, practices and policies.

Education

• BA, University of Victoria
• MPH, University of Victoria

Biography

Anita Manshadi is a Master of Public Health candidate from the University of Victoria. She comes from Persian ancestral roots and was raised on the Haisla Territory. Anita has over 5 years of professional experience working with First Nations communities and organizations, most recently at the First Nations Health Authority. She is passionate in exploring structural racism, embedding cultural safety and humility in health policies and systems, ecological health, and First Nations health and wellness indicators.

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