Advisors

Advisors to ICHR

Joanne Barnaby

Joanne Barnaby has extensive experience in working with northern communities. This experience includes over 27 years of working in Aboriginal organizations, including twelve years as the executive director of the Dene Cultural Institute, providing both leadership and senior management services to Aboriginal peoples. More recently Joanne, as an independent consultant, has provided facilitation and cross-cultural training services to industry, public boards, and agencies and to governments operating in the north as well as to Aboriginal communities. Ms. Barnaby’s current work focuses on building economic, cultural, social, and environmental sustainability using western and indigenous traditional knowledge systems, and developing management models that are fully accountable and meaningfully engage Aboriginal people.

André Corriveau, MD (McGill), MBA (Laval), FRCPC

André Corriveau was the Chief Medical Health Officer for the Northwest Territories from 1998 to 2009,  and is currently Chief Medical Officer for Alberta. He received his degree in medicine from McGill University in 1981 and completed a residency in community medicine as well as a Master’s degree in Health Services Administration at Laval University in 1986. Dr. Corriveau worked one year in Nova Scotia as a health unit director and 7 years in Nunavik (Northern Québec), fulfilling a number of functions including that of general practitioner, public health consultant, part-time coroner and director of professional services. He moved to the Northwest Territories in 1994 and was appointed Director of the Population Health Division of the Department of Health and Social Services in 1996. His responsibilities include Health Promotion, Disease Surveillance, Prevention and Control, and Environmental Health.

Kue Young  BSc, MD, CM (McGill), MSc (Toronto), D.Phil (Oxford), FRCPC

Kue Young is the TransCanada Pipelines Chair in Aboriginal Health and Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. His research interests are in the prevention of control of chronic diseases in indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic. Among many activities, he is the principal investigator for the CIHR team in circumpolar disease prevention which includes a series of projects which are building capacity for health research in the NWT and enhancing northern evidence in chronic disease prevention in circumpolar regions.