Alumni
Chloé Xavier, MPH Epidemiology
Xavier CG, Benoit AC, Brown HK. 2018.Teenage pregnancy and mental health beyond the postpartum period: A systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 72(6): 451-457. doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-209923
Xavier CG, Brown H, Benoit AC. 2018. Teenage pregnancy and long-term mental health outcomes among Indigenous women. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 21(3): 333-340. doi: 10.1007/s00737-017-0799-5
Janani Kodeeswaran, MPH Health Promotion
Kodeeswaran J, Campaigne M. Benoit AC. 2022. “I'll struggle, and I'll fall…I'll have my days, but it's okay” Indigenous women surviving the sixties scoop. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 13(1). doi: 10.18584/iipj.2022.13.1.13570
Kodeeswaran J, Toombs E*, Sinoway C*, Cotnam J, Gauvin H, Benoit AC. “Even though we’re different – places and upbringing, it all affected us the same way”: Indigenous women’s experiences of anti-Indigenous racism in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Manuscript in review.
Catherine Moses, MPH Health Promotion
Moses C, Brown HK, Prabhakar P, Eltayeb N, Benoit AC. 2022. Systematic review of interventions addressing suicide among Indigenous adults and reporting Indigenous-specific content and involvement in the interventions. AlterNative 18(3): 445-454. doi: 10.1177/11771801221117164
Nadine Eltayeb, MPH Epidemiology
Uptake of Cancer Screening Among Indigenous People with Disabilities, manuscript in progress.
Moses C, Brown HK, Prabhakar P, Eltayeb N, Benoit AC. 2022. Systematic review of interventions addressing suicide among Indigenous adults and reporting Indigenous-specific content and involvement in the interventions. AlterNative 18(3): 445-454. doi: 10.1177/11771801221117164
Diane Simon, MPH Health Promotion
Simon D, Greene S, Cotnam J, O’Brien-Teengs D, Loufty M, Benoit AC. The Need to Change the Narrative, to Change the Context: Urban Indigenous Women Surviving-or-Thriving Responses to Stressors. Manuscript in review.
Jonathan Lin, MPH Health Promotion
Lin JC, Toombs E, Sanders C, Sinoway C, Amirault M, Mushquash CJ, Barkman L, Young M, Deschamps M, Gauvin H, Benoit AC. 2023. Looking beyond the individual – The importance of accessing health and cultural services for Indigenous women in Thunder Bay, Ontario. PLOS One, March 1, 2023. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282484.
Rachel Lee, MPH Health Promotion
Lee RS, Brown HK, Salih S*, Benoit AC. 2022. Systematic review of Indigenous involvement and content in mental health interventions and their effectiveness for Indigenous populations. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. doi: 10.1177/00048674221089837
Priya Prabhakar, MPH Health Promotion
Moses C, Brown HK, Prabhakar P, Eltayeb N, Benoit AC. 2022. Systematic review of interventions addressing suicide among Indigenous adults and reporting Indigenous-specific content and involvement in the interventions. AlterNative 18(3): 445-454. doi: 10.1177/11771801221117164
Champagne Thomson, Masters of Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership
Project 'Discussing with Indigenous service providers the cultural healing approaches they provide and desire providing'
Emma Leckey, BA with Distinctions
Project ‘Indigenous non-profits and the petroleum industry: How to proceed?’ in partnership with the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
Ashley Hilton, BA, Ethics, Society & Law
Project 'The historical and ongoing impact of tuberculosis on Indigenous people in Canada' in partnership with Communities, Alliances, and Networks
Callum Shepard, BA, History, Ethics, Society & Law
Project 'Indigenous people's access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Canada: Barriers and facilitators' in partnership with Communities, Alliances, and Networks
Ronan van Rooij, BA, Double major in Political Science and Ethics, Society and Law
Project ‘The United Nation’s 90-90-90 targets and its impact on Indigenous peoples in Canada’ in partnership with the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
Valerie Power, BA
Project ‘Land Based activities for the mental health of Indigenous youth living with or affected by HIV’ in partnership with the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
Zara Narain, BA
Project ‘Banishment and BCRs: Assessing the Holistic Health Impacts of Banishment as a First Nations Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis’ in partnership with Elevate NWO
Sangkavi Kuhan, BSc
Project 'Cardiovascular diseases among South Asian women - Risk factors and clinical interventions'
Amira Aker, PhD
Uptake of cancer screening among Indigenous People with disabilities, manuscript in progress.
Aker A, Whitworth KW, Bosson-Rieutort D, Wendling G, Ibrahim A, Verner MA, Benoit AC, Caron-Beaudoin É. 2021. Proximity and density of unconventional natural gas wells and mental illness and substance use among pregnant women: an exploratory study in Canada. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 242: 113962. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2022.113962
Aker A, Serghides L, Cotnam C, Jackson R, Robinson M, Gauvin H, Mushquash C, Gesink D, Amirault M, Benoit AC. 2023. The impact of a culturally-grounded community-based stress management intervention on stress biomarker levels and mental health indicators in an Indigenous community. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Jan 18 doi: 10.1007/s10865-023-00391-0
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