Our score (<<World Justice Index 2012)

4.1 Equal treatment and absence of discrimination

4.2 The right to life and security of the person is effectively guaranteed

4.3 Due process of law and rights of the accused

4.4 Freedom of opinion and expression is effectively guaranteed

4.5 Freedom of belief and religion is effectively guaranteed

4.6 Freedom from arbitrary interference with privacy is effectively guaranteed

4.7 Freedom of assembly and association is effectively guaranteed

4.8 Fundamental labor rights are effectively guaranteed

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Score 6.2

Racism and health (stress metabolic immune systems) (Williams 1997)

Embodiment and determinants of health (Krieger 2011) Need to avoid stigmatizing risk discourses (Lupton 1995)

Intergenerational loop, perpetuating poor health (social epigenetics)

Knowledge Integration

Within And Across

Disciplines

Improvement in Population

Health

Informing Public Policy

Developing and Evaluating Health services

Communication and Stakeholder Engagement

Education and Training

Knowledge Generation

Population Sciences

Genome-based Science

and Technology

Humanities and Social Sciences

RESEARCH

SOCIETY

Policy Development

Assessment Assurance

The Public Health Genomics Enterprise (Bellagio Model)Source: Bellagio Statement. Genome-based Research and Population Health, Report of the expert workshop

held at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 14-20 April 2005

• Aim 1: – Social readiness preparation for study

implementation• Aim 2:

– Develop survey, recruitment plan, study implementation

• Aim 3: Biological samples– Blood and/or saliva and buccal swabs

• Aim 4: – Stewardship & biobanking model

• SOPs• Analysis/authorship process• Respectful approaches to

knowledge mobiliation

Child

with

FASD

• Age• Sex• Ethnicity• Region

• Age specific questions related to:

• Education• Justice or Social Service

engagement• Mental health conditions• Physical health• Trauma histories• Risk Behaviors (drinking,

smoking, drug use, substance use)

• Social Behaviors• Sleep patterns• Nutrition

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• Age• Sex• Ethnicity• Region

• Age specific questions related to:

• Education• Justice or Social Service

engagement• Mental health conditions• Physical health• Trauma histories• Risk Behaviors (drinking,

smoking, drug use, substance use)

• Social Behaviors• Sleep patterns• Nutrition

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• Age• Sex• Ethnicity• Region

• Socioeconomic• Justice engagement• Mental health conditions• Physical health• Trauma histories• Risk Behaviors (drinking,

smoking, drug use, substance use, current, past and during pregnancy for mother)

• Parenting style• Nutritional status

• Potential Maternal factors• Gravidity• Parity• Body Size

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thy

Child

Con

trol • Age

• Sex• Ethnicity• Region

• Age specific questions related to:

• Education• Justice engagement• Mental health conditions• Physical health• Trauma histories• Risk Behaviors (drinking,

smoking, drug use, substance use)

• Social Behaviors• Sleep patterns• Nutrition

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Child

Con

trol • Both Maternal

(Mo)/Paternal (Fa)

• Age• Sex• Ethnicity• Region

• Socioeconomic• Justice engagement• Mental health conditions• Physical health• Trauma histories• Risk Behaviors (drinking,

smoking, drug use, substance use, current, past, and during pregnancy for mother)

• Parenting style• Nutrition

• Potential Maternal factors• Gravidity• Parity• Body Size

Child

Mother

Father

Mother

Alcohol in Pregnancy

Child

FASD Outcome

Translating to the Community: A Social Epigenetic Cohort Study of FASD

N=100 Nmo+fa=100 N=100 Nmo+fa=100N=100

Social Biological

Characteristics

Interdisciplinarity is aboutinter-dependencies to make a

difference

Consortium Projects

FN PTOs

Water Rights Groups

Funding Agencies

Students

Multiple Academic Disciplines

FN Community Leaders and

Members

• Solutions generated in First Nations space

• Guided by a multitude of traditions

• Traditions representing north, south, east and west

• Goal to advance the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health of community members, on and off reserve.

Hart, Elias, Hall, 2011

Why a prairie NCE for Indigenous Peoples

In honour of the League of Indian Nations in Western Canada held on the Keeseekoowenin Indian Reserve (Mb), circa 1920