On today’s episode, we welcome Dr. Lyana Patrick, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Her research focuses on indigenous health and justice, urban indigenous community planning, and institutional change through decolonizing education.

We discuss her paper “The power of connections: How a novel Canadian men’s wellness program is improving the health and well-being of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men”. This paper was published in the international indigenous policy journal. The other authors on this paper include Iloradanon Efimoff,* Viviane Josewski, Paul Gross, Sandy Lambert, and Vicki Smye.

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Read more about Lyana's quantitative work on the same program published in The Conversation

Read more about Lyana and her work on her SFU Website

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