Dr. Sophie Roher (she/her) is a health policy researcher who specializes in policies impacting Indigenous and Arctic communities. She is a CIHR SPOR-funded Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Research Advisor at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research.

Sophie believes in the power of relationships and storytelling. Her work uses participatory, narrative, and arts-based methods to foster dialogue and co-learning between communities 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 Northern Canada.

Sophie completed her MSc in Health Policy and Bioethics and her PhD in Social and Behavioural Health Research from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She currently serves as a board member with the Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health and as a Research Fellow with the International Arctic Science Committee’s Social and Human Working Group.