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Brenda Elias

ResearcherCommunity Health SciencesUniversity of Manitoba

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Brenda Elias

Researcher

Community Health Sciences

Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Research

Indigenous Community Culture First Nations Intervention Public Health Risk Factors Suicide

Latest papers

Ancestry or identity? The importance of Indigenous engagement in articulating First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in the 2006 Canadian Census Health and Environmental Cohort (CanCHEC).
International journal of circumpolar health · 2025
Spouses bereaved by suicide: A population-based longitudinal cohort comparison of physician-diagnosed mental disorders and hospitalized suicide attempts.
Journal of psychiatric research · 2020
Examining the Impact of First Nations Status on the Relationship Between Diabetes and Cancer.
Health equity · 2020

All 25 publications

Latest funding

Translating to the Community (T2C): A Social Epigenetic Study of FASD
CIHR · 2019 · Nominated PI
$1,503,226
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): Defining the Impact, Severity and Natural History of NAFLD in Canadian First-Nations and non-First Nations Communities
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$2,031,075
PAX-Good Behavior Game in First Nations Communities: Enhancing and Adapting a School-Based Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention Strategy
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
$673,777

All 18 grants and awards

25 publications.

Ancestry or identity? The importance of Indigenous engagement in articulating First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in the 2006 Canadian Census Health and Environmental Cohort (CanCHEC).

Ellison LK, Ng C, Kewayosh A, Troke N, Elias B, Tjepkema M, Letendre A, Marrett LD, Sheppard AJ

International journal of circumpolar health2025

DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2025.2495378 PMID: 40272120

Spouses bereaved by suicide: A population-based longitudinal cohort comparison of physician-diagnosed mental disorders and hospitalized suicide attempts.

Spiwak R, Elias B, Sareen J, Chartier M, Katz LY, Bolton JM

Journal of psychiatric research2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.07.028 PMID: 32882576

Examining the Impact of First Nations Status on the Relationship Between Diabetes and Cancer.

Decker KM, Lambert P, Demers A, Kliewer EV, Musto G, Biswanger N, Elias B, Turner D

Health equity2020

DOI: 10.1089/heq.2019.0121 PMID: 32440618

Conceptualizations of help-seeking for mental health concerns in First Nations communities in Canada: A comparison of fit with the Andersen Behavioral Model.

Isaak CA, Mota N, Medved M, Katz LY, Elias B, Mignone J, Munro G, Sareen J

Transcultural psychiatry2020

DOI: 10.1177/1363461520906978 PMID: 32116153

Creating a Canadian Indigenous Research Network Against Cancer to Address Indigenous Cancer Disparities.

Letendre A, Garvey G, King A, King M, Crowshoe R, Bill L, Caron NR, Elias B

JCO global oncology2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1200/jgo.19.00049 PMID: 32031447

Tuberculosis among northern Manitoba First Nations, 2008-2012: program performance on- and off-reserve.

Basham CA, Elias B, Fanning A, Orr P

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2019

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-019-00231-2 PMID: 31286459

Tuberculosis elimination in Canada.

Basham CA, Elias B, Orr P

Lancet (London, England)2019

DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)31122-5 PMID: 31354140

Translating to the Community (T2C): a protocol paper describing the development of Canada's first social epigenetic FASD biobank.

Elias B, Hanlon-Dearman A, Head B, Hicks GG

Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire2018First author

DOI: 10.1139/bcb-2017-0278 PMID: 29544064

Adapting and enhancing PAX Good Behavior Game for First Nations communities: a mixed-methods study protocol developed with Swampy Cree Tribal Council communities in Manitoba.

Fortier J, Chartier M, Turner S, Murdock N, Turner F, Sareen J, Afifi TO, Katz LY, Brownell M, Bolton J, Elias B, Isaak C, Woodgate R, Jiang D

BMJ open2018

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018454 PMID: 29449291

One little, too little: Counting Canada's indigenous people for improved health reporting.

Elias B, Busby K, Martens P

Social science & medicine (1982)2015First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.06.014 PMID: 26112164

Translating to the Community (T2C): A Social Epigenetic Study of FASD

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Elias, Brenda D; Hicks, Geoffrey G; Munro, Garry

Keywords: Fasd; Indigenous; Social Biobank; Social Epigenetics

$1,503,226

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): Defining the Impact, Severity and Natural History of NAFLD in Canadian First-Nations and non-First Nations Communities

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Uhanova, Julia

Keywords: Liver Disease; Natural History Of Nafld/Nash; Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (Nafld); Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (Nash); Ultrasound Survey

$2,031,075

PAX-Good Behavior Game in First Nations Communities: Enhancing and Adapting a School-Based Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention Strategy

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Team Grant: Pathways IRT - Component 2 - Suicide Prevention

Principal investigators: Chartier, Mariette J; Munro, Garry; Sareen, Jitender

Keywords: Aboriginal Health; Child Health; Cultrural Adaptation; Data Linkage; Implementation Research; Mental Health Promotion; Population Mental Health; School Based Interveniton; Suicide Prevention

$673,777

Taking Action: Canadian Indigenous Research Network Against Cancer

Nominated PICIHR2015Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Elias, Brenda D

Keywords: Cancer; Health Disparities; Health Promotion; Health Services; Indigenous; Social Determinants

$12,000

PAX-Good Behavior Game in First Nations Communities: Enhancing and Adapting a School-Based Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention Strategy

Co-investigatorCIHR2014Team Grant: Pathways Implementation Research Team - Component 2 - LOI

Principal investigators: Chartier, Mariette J; Munro, Garry; Sareen, Jitender

Keywords: Aboriginal Health; Child Health; Cultural Adaptation; Data Linkage; Implementation Research; Mental Health Promotion; Participatory Action Research; Population Mental Health; School-Based Intervention; Suicide Prevention

$7,150

Creation of an Advancement in Burn care in Canada Network.

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Network Catalyst Grant: Skin Research

Principal investigators: Logsetty, Sarvesh

Keywords: Burn Injury; Injury; Lived Experience; Multidisciplinary; Network; Psychosocial

$577,376

NSERC CREATE Program for Water and Sanitation Security in First Nations (HO2 CREATE).

Co-investigatorNSERC2013Collaborative Research and Training Experience

Principal investigators: Farenhorst, Annemieke

$1,650,000

Culturally grounded suicide intervention in Cree Nation communities

Principal investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant - PA: Regional Partnership Program : Manitoba

Principal investigators: Sareen, Jitender; Elias, Brenda D; Katz, Laurence Y

Keywords: Community; Culture; First Nations; Intervention; Public Health; Risk Factors; Suicide

$97,824

Discovering the Epigenetic Signatures Associated with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Team Grant: CEEHRC - Full application

Principal investigators: Davie, James R

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Bisulfite Sequencing; Epigenetics; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; Knock-Out Mice; Methylation Array; Translating To The Community; Xenopus

$1,372,800

Culturally grounded suicide intervention in Cree Nation communities

Principal investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant - Priority Announcement: Population Health Interventions

Principal investigators: Sareen, Jitender; Elias, Brenda D; Katz, Laurence Y

Keywords: Community; Culture; First Nations; Intervention; Public Health; Risk Factors; Suicide

$200,000

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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Brenda Elias

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Ancestry or identity? The importance of Indigenous engagement in articulating First Nations, Inuit and M&#xe9;tis peoples in the 2006 Canadian Census Health and Environmental Cohort (CanCHEC).

Spouses bereaved by suicide: A population-based longitudinal cohort comparison of physician-diagnosed mental disorders and hospitalized suicide attempts.

Examining the Impact of First Nations Status on the Relationship Between Diabetes and Cancer.

Conceptualizations of help-seeking for mental health concerns in First Nations communities in Canada: A comparison of fit with the Andersen Behavioral Model.

Creating a Canadian Indigenous Research Network Against Cancer to Address Indigenous Cancer Disparities.

Tuberculosis among northern Manitoba First Nations, 2008-2012: program performance on- and off-reserve.

Tuberculosis elimination in Canada.

Translating to the Community (T2C): a protocol paper describing the development of Canada's first social epigenetic FASD biobank.

Adapting and enhancing PAX Good Behavior Game for First Nations communities: a mixed-methods study protocol developed with Swampy Cree Tribal Council communities in Manitoba.

One little, too little: Counting Canada's indigenous people for improved health reporting.

NSERC CREATE Program for Water and Sanitation Security in First Nations (HO2 CREATE).

Frequent collaborators

Jitender Sareen

Garry Munro

Rae Spiwak

James Bolton

Mariette Chartier

Natalie Mota

Malcolm King

Alexandra King

Leslie Roos

Christine Peschken

Shay-Lee Bolton

Lea Bill

Alethea Kewayosh

Cheryl Barnabe

Ana Hanlon-Dearman

Marni Brownell

Depeng Jiang

Caroline Chartrand

Roberta Woodgate

Hani El-Gabalawy

Ancestry or identity? The importance of Indigenous engagement in articulating First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in the 2006 Canadian Census Health and Environmental Cohort (CanCHEC).