Joanne Barnaby (Hay River)
Joanne has over 25 years experience working with northern communities, including 12 as the executive director of the Dene Cultural Institute. More recently, Joanne has provided facilitation and cross-cultural training services to industry, public boards, agencies, Aboriginal communities, and governments in the north, with a focus 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.
Christopher M. Fletcher, PhD (Montréal)
Chris is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and adjunct Professor at the Canadian Circumpolar Institute. He has worked with the people of Deline on a project that looks at Dene concepts and practices in health and their relationship to economic and environmental change. One part of this project involves finding innovative ways to document and transmit knowledge of medical plants within the community. He has also worked extensively in Nunavik and Nitassinan.
François Paulette (Smith’s Landing Treaty 8 First Nation)
François is a respected Dënesųłiné Elder and was the youngest chief elected in the Northwest Territories. In 1972, along with other chiefs, he challenged the crown to recognize treaty and aboriginal rights. He served on the National Indian Brotherhood Treaty Implementation Committee, the Assembly of First Nations Renewal Commission, and the Parks Canada Aboriginal Consultative Committee and has spoken internationally on Dene history and rights. He currently chairs the Stanton Territorial Health Authority Elders’ Advisory Council.
International Advisors
Kue Young BSc, MD, CM (McGill), MSc (Toronto), D.Phil (Oxford), FRCPC
Kue 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. In 2010, he was named to the Order of Canada for his lifetime work in the area of Aboriginal health.
Tine Pars, PhD (Copenhagen)
Tine is the President / Rector of Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland. She earned a PhD in epidemiology from Copenhagen University, studying the contemporary use of traditional Greenlandic foods in West Greenland.
Peter Bjerregaard, MD (Copenhagen)
Peter is Professor of Arctic Medicine at the National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark (since 1996) and Advisor to the Home Rule Government of Greenland. He graduated in medicine from University of Copenhagen in 1972 and served as District Medical Officer in Upernavik, Greenland during 1978-80. He has been actively engaged in epidemiological research in Greenland and was principal investigator of several large population surveys and other research projects.
