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Leona Star

ResearcherCommunity Health SciencesUniversity of Manitoba

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Leona Star

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.
5 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Indigenous Covid-19 First Nations Anti-Indigenous Racism Equity Health Research Indigenous Peoples Mentorship

Latest papers

The Right to Be Counted: Unmasking First Nations and Métis Population Undercounts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
Identifying people with post-COVID condition using linked, population-based administrative health data from Manitoba, Canada: prevalence and predictors in a cohort of COVID-positive individuals.
BMJ open · 2025
The Mental Health of First Nations Children in Manitoba: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study Using Linked Administrative Data: La santé mentale des enfants des Premières Nations au Manitoba : une étude de cohorte rétrospective dans la population, à l'aide de données administratives liées.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2024

All 9 publications

Latest funding

This Is Medical Transport: Listening to First Nations Peoples' voices and perspectives of medical transportation and learning from the lived realities of the impacts on health and healthcare
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$125,000
MB NEIHR renewal
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$4,000,000
Long-term Sequelae of COVID-19: Using Clinical and Administrative Data to Support Diagnosis and Treatment of Long COVID Patients
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$202,005

All 14 grants and awards

9 publications.

The Right to Be Counted: Unmasking First Nations and Métis Population Undercounts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Avery L, Snyder M, Cyr M, Herrera D, Star L, Sinclair S, Smylie J, Rotondi M

International journal of environmental research and public health2026

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph23081017 PMID: 42652332

Identifying people with post-COVID condition using linked, population-based administrative health data from Manitoba, Canada: prevalence and predictors in a cohort of COVID-positive individuals.

Katz A, Ekuma O, Enns JE, Cavett T, Singer A, Sanchez-Ramirez DC, Keynan Y, Lix L, Walld R, Yogendran M, Nickel NC, Urquia M, Star L, Olafson K, Logsetty S, Spiwak R, Waruk J, Matharaarachichi S

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087920 PMID: 39788761

The Mental Health of First Nations Children in Manitoba: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study Using Linked Administrative Data: La santé mentale des enfants des Premières Nations au Manitoba : une étude de cohorte rétrospective dans la population, à l'aide de données administratives liées.

Chartier MJ, Brownell M, Star L, Murdock N, Campbell R, Phillips-Beck W, Horton M, Meade C, Au W, Schultz J, Bowes JM, Cochrane B

Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2024

DOI: 10.1177/07067437241226998 PMID: 38343025

COVID-19 diagnostic testing and vaccinations among First Nations in Manitoba: A nations-based retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data, 2020-2021.

Nickel NC, Phillips-Beck W, Enns JE, Ekuma O, Taylor C, Fileatreault S, Eze N, Star L, Lavoie J, Katz A, Brownell M, Mahar A, Urquia M, Chateau D, Lix L, Chartier M, Brownell E, Tso Deh M, Durksen A, Romanescu R

PLoS medicine2024

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004348 PMID: 38363739

Children's Oral Health Initiative: workers' perspectives on its impact in First Nations communities.

Schroth RJ, Kyoon-Achan G, McNally M, Edwards J, White P, Tait Neufeld H, Bertone M, Hayes A, Hai-Santiago K, Star L, McNab Fontaine W, Yerex K, Olatosi OO, Moffatt MEK, Cruz de Jesus V

Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice2023

DOI: 10.24095/hpcdp.43.9.01 PMID: 37707351

Addressing the need for indigenous and decolonized quantitative research methods in Canada.

Hayward A, Wodtke L, Craft A, Robin T, Smylie J, McConkey S, Nychuk A, Healy C, Star L, Cidro J

SSM - population health2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100899 PMID: 34584930

Nothing about us without us in writing: aligning the editorial policies of the Canadian Journal of Public Health with the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Marsden N, Star L, Smylie J

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2020

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00452-w PMID: 33289058

Requirement for Meaningful Engagement of First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Indigenous Peoples in Publications About Them.

Smylie J, Marsden N, Star L, Gahagan J, Zarowsky C, Mykhalovskiy E, Masuda J, Potvin L

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2020

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00450-y PMID: 33289057

Prevalence and risk factors of caregiver reported Severe Early Childhood Caries in Manitoba First Nations children: results from the RHS Phase 2 (2008-2010).

Schroth RJ, Halchuk S, Star L

International journal of circumpolar health2013Senior author

DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21167 PMID: 23984289

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Leona Star

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The Right to Be Counted: Unmasking First Nations and M&#xe9;tis Population Undercounts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Identifying people with post-COVID condition using linked, population-based administrative health data from Manitoba, Canada: prevalence and predictors in a cohort of COVID-positive individuals.

COVID-19 diagnostic testing and vaccinations among First Nations in Manitoba: A nations-based retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data, 2020-2021.

Children's Oral Health Initiative: workers' perspectives on its impact in First Nations communities.

Addressing the need for indigenous and decolonized quantitative research methods in Canada.

Nothing about us without us in writing: aligning the editorial policies of the Canadian Journal of Public Health with the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Requirement for Meaningful Engagement of First Nations, Inuit, M&#xe9;tis, and Indigenous Peoples in Publications About Them.

Prevalence and risk factors of caregiver reported Severe Early Childhood Caries in Manitoba First Nations children: results from the RHS Phase 2 (2008-2010).

Frequent collaborators

Leona Star

Janet Smylie

Janet Smylie

Marcelo Urquia

Wanda Phillips-Beck

Namaste Marsden

Marni Brownell

Lisa Lix

Alan Katz

Jeanette Edwards

Eric Mykhalovskiy

Jaime Cidro

Alexander Singer

Stephanie Sinclair

Alyson Mahar

Rae Spiwak

Yoav Keynan

Stephanie Sinclair

Jacqueline Gahagan

Monica Cyr

Della Herrera

Michael Rotondi

Jacqueline Gahagan

Louise Potvin

The Right to Be Counted: Unmasking First Nations and Métis Population Undercounts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Requirement for Meaningful Engagement of First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Indigenous Peoples in Publications About Them.