Janette Bulkan, University of British Columbia

Research

Gender And Wellness Environmental Health Indigenous Health Indigenous Peoples' Health Lgbtqi2s+ Health Traditional Medicine Cultural Wellness Environment

Latest papers

A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2023
Secular trends in adult stature among the Makushi of Guyana in the 20th Century.
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2019
Sustainability issues of commercial non-timber forest product extraction in West Suriname.
Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2018

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Sharing the Lessons of the Lil'wat Cultural Re-Connection Classroom
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$197,368
Lil'wat Medicine Shed: Supporting Traditional Medicine Usage and Traditional Knowings of Gender
CIHR · 2021 · Nominated PI
$332,740
Lil'wat Lvmlaomen: Assessing the Potential to Enhance Gendered Cultural Resurgence with a Lil'wat Traditional Medicine Shed
CIHR · 2019 · Nominated PI
$46,780

All 3 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America.

López de la Lama R, Bennett N, Bulkan J, Boyd D, Chan KMA

Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology2023

DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14068 PMID: 36786052

02

Secular trends in adult stature among the Makushi of Guyana in the 20th Century.

Wilson WM, Bulkan J, Piperata BA, Hicks K

American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council2019

DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23285 PMID: 31228229

03

Sustainability issues of commercial non-timber forest product extraction in West Suriname.

van den Boog T, Bulkan J, Tansey J, van Andel TR

Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine2018

DOI: 10.1186/s13002-018-0244-5 PMID: 29954430

04

Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD.

de Andrade RB, Balch JK, Parsons AL, Armenteras D, Roman-Cuesta RM, Bulkan J

Carbon balance and management2017Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s13021-017-0074-0 PMID: 28413850

05

Indigenous Children's Knowledge About Non-timber Forest Products in Suriname.

van den Boog T, van Andel T, Bulkan J

Economic botany2017Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s12231-017-9400-4 PMID: 29606734

Sharing the Lessons of the Lil'wat Cultural Re-Connection Classroom

Nominated PICIHR2025Operating Grant: Indig. Gender/Wellness - Knowledge Sharing- First Nations comm.

Principal investigators: Bulkan, Janette

Keywords: Environmental Health; Gender And Wellness; Indigenous Health

$197,368

Lil'wat Medicine Shed: Supporting Traditional Medicine Usage and Traditional Knowings of Gender

Nominated PICIHR2021Team Grant: Indigenous Gender and Wellness Team Grant

Principal investigators: Bulkan, Janette

Keywords: Gender And Wellness; Indigenous Peoples' Health; Lgbtqi2s+ Health; Traditional Medicine

$332,740

Lil'wat Lvmlaomen: Assessing the Potential to Enhance Gendered Cultural Resurgence with a Lil'wat Traditional Medicine Shed

Nominated PICIHR2019Indigenous Gender and Wellness Development Grants

Principal investigators: Bulkan, Janette

Keywords: Cultural Wellness; Environment; Health; Indigenous Peoples

$46,780

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: Gender And Wellness Dear Professor Bulkan, 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]. I read your paper "A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America." (2023), and it 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 "Sharing the Lessons of the Lil'wat Cultural Re-Connection Classroom" (2025), 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]