Juanita Desjarlais, Simon Fraser University

Research

Health Equity Health Promotion And Disease Prevention Health Services And Systems Indigenous Knowledge Indigenous Methods Indigenous Peoples' Health Knowledge Translation Population & Social Sciences Methods

Latest funding

Standing Together: Strength, Resilience, and Indigenous leadership as the Pathway to Pandemic Responses
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$483,061

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Standing Together: Strength, Resilience, and Indigenous leadership as the Pathway to Pandemic Responses

Principal investigatorCIHR2021O. Gr.: Addr. the Health Impacts of COVID-19 - Indigenous Health Research

Principal investigators: McDonald, Shannon; Desjarlais, Juanita; Fleury, Mathew; Hughes, Katie; Isaac-Mann, Sonia T; Wieman, Cornelia G

Keywords: Health Equity; Health Promotion And Disease Prevention; Health Services And Systems; Indigenous Knowledge; Indigenous Methods; Indigenous Peoples' Health; Knowledge Translation; Population & Social Sciences Methods; Population And Health; Social, Economic And Legal Status

$483,061

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Health Equity Dear Professor Desjarlais, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on health equity connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Standing Together: Strength, Resilience, and Indigenous leadership as the Pathway to Pandemic Responses" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]