PATH Symposium | Indigenous Health and Wellness: Reflections on Research and Reconciliation

The McGill Research Centre for Physical Activity and Health (PATH) - in partnership with the Kahnawà:ke Schools Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP) will host an interdisciplinary symposium entitled Indigenous Health and Wellness: Reflections on Research and Reconciliation on Friday November 16, 2018 from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm at La Citadelle, 410 Sherbrooke St W., Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B3.

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McGill University is located on land that has long served as a site for meeting and exchange amongst First Nations peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg. The 5th annual PATH symposium will engage Indigenous scholars, interdisciplinary community-based health and wellness researchers and not-for-profit community organizations in a series of panel presentations that address the following key themes:

• the relationship of health and wellness to reconciliation;
• experiences building/supporting culturally-grounded health and wellness programs with Indigenous community partners;
• knowledge dissemination approaches rooted in/supporting of Indigenous paradigms;
• the educative potential of health and wellness research tosettler reconciliation.

[For more info please visit 2018 Symposium at www.mcgill.ca/path]