Epidemiological trends in global health, pandemics, and public health emergency response
Urban Indigenous health, the importance of sustainable food systems, and place to health, particularly for displaced Indigenous and migrant populations
Environmental health, climate resilience, healthy communities, and environmental and social equity in health
Revitalization of traditional knowledge systems, Indigenous science, sovereignty, and governance for First Nations
Education
BHSc (Hons), University of Ottawa
MPH, Simon Fraser University
PhD, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Biography
Chenoa (she/her) is an anishininewak member of Sachigo Lake First Nation from the Barkman family, with mixed French and Scottish ancestry. She was raised in a small town near Ottawa, ON and moved to Vancouver in 2016 to pursue graduate school. Her doctoral research centred the experiences of urban Indigenous Peoples who use substances amidst concurrent public health emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia. She is a Population Health Epidemiologist with the Indigenous Health Research Unit at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, where she is engaged in diverse subject areas including Indigenous food systems, climate change and resilience, and the impacts of COVID-19 and other public health emergencies on Indigenous health and care.
She is a co-investigator on several local, national, and global grant-funded projects in the areas of global Indigenous adolescent health, youth gender and sexual health, Indigenous youth leadership in research, land-based healing, and arts-based methodologies. Outside of work, you can find Chenoa biking, running, or skiing in the mountains with Indigenous Women Outdoors, her husband, and her dog Kya.
