Areas of interest

Resource extraction and health, Environmental health/policy, Health Impact Assessment, Health and wellness indicator development, climate change and health, planetary health, social and environmental justice, community-based research, addressing racism in health care, Indigenous public health, resource management and control

Education

• PhD University of British Columbia
• MA Simon Fraser University
• BA (Hons) Carleton University

Biography

Dawn Hoogeveen’s research interests are in environmental politics, Indigenous studies and environmental and public health. She is a Senior Environment Community Health Observatory Research Fellow with the First Nations Health Authority where she is collaboratively progressing a program of work concerning health and healing indicators and health impact assessment. Dawn takes a mixed methods approach to her research and always enjoys a good interview and time spent in community. She is a settler scholar of Dutch and British ancestry and grew up on Williams Treaty lands in Ontario.

After completing a PhD from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Dawn went on to complete postdoctoral research at the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability at UBC where she worked on Indigenous led Impact Assessment of major resource projects in collaboration with the Firelight Research Group. She then began research in Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia where she examined the health impacts of resource development on rural, remote, and Indigenous communities with the Environment Community Health Network. This included work on climate change and health as well as gender-based analysis plus in federal impact assessment.

Dawn has collaborated on Dasiqox Nexwagwez?an, an emerging Indigenous Protected Area in Tsilhqot’in territory. She is a technical advisor with the Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Impacts, President of the Strathcona Community Centre Association, and an active member of the Canadian Environmental Network’s Environment Planning and Assessment Caucus. Dawn joined FHS at SFU in 2021.