Dr. Sophie Roher (she/her) is a health policy researcher who specializes in policies impacting Indigenous and Arctic communities. She is SPOR-funded Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Research Advisor at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research. Dr. Roher believes in the power of relationships and storytelling. Her work uses participatory approaches and narrative methods to foster dialogue and co-learning between community and health system stakeholders with the goal of addressing inequities in care and driving patient-centred health policies and programs. She is passionate about advancing Indigenous health outcomes and has worked for over nine years on a wide-range of community-led research projects with Indigenous communities and governments in the Arctic. Dr. Roher earned her MSc in Health Policy and Bioethics and her PhD in Social and Behavioural Health Research at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She has experience working on policy initiatives in Ontario, Yellowknife, Whitehorse, and Uganda.