Diana Lewis, University of Guelph

Research

Community-Led Research Data Sovereignty Environmental Contaminants And Health Environmental Health Indigenous Determinants Of Health Indigenous Peoples' Health Environment Health

Latest papers

Confronting epistemic blinders in impact assessment and environmental health risk assessment processes.
Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025 · first author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$2,700,000
Enacting data sovereignty through knowledge dissemination: Gathering to share our stories and mobilize our knowledge in Fort Chipewyan and Oneida Nation of the Thames
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$25,000
Building the Autonomy of Indigenous Communities to Make their Data Work for Decision-Making
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$3,017,160

All 5 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

Confronting epistemic blinders in impact assessment and environmental health risk assessment processes.

Lewis D, Castleden H, Masuda J, Richmond C, Jolly D

Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis2025First author

DOI: 10.1111/risa.70073 PMID: 40677137

The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Training Grant: HRTP - One Health - Emerging Zoonoses

Principal investigators: Parmley, Jane; Aenishaenslin, Cecile; Banerjee, Arinjay; Hillier, Sean A; Leighton, Patrick; Maguire, Finlay; Mubareka, Samira; Penney, Tarra L

Keywords: Emerging Zoonosis; Mentorship; One Health; Preparedness And Response; Prevention; Resilience; Sustainability; Training

$2,700,000

Enacting data sovereignty through knowledge dissemination: Gathering to share our stories and mobilize our knowledge in Fort Chipewyan and Oneida Nation of the Thames

Nominated PICIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Lewis, Diana M

Keywords: Community-Led Research; Data Sovereignty; Environmental Contaminants And Health; Environmental Health; Indigenous Determinants Of Health; Indigenous Peoples' Health

$25,000

Building the Autonomy of Indigenous Communities to Make their Data Work for Decision-Making

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Lewis, Diana M; Castleden, Heather E; Cormier, Stephania; Furgal, Christopher M; Jolly, Dyanna; O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran; Orihel, Diane M; Parker, Beth; Prosser, Ryan; Vilcins, Dwan

Keywords: Environment; Health; Indigenous

$3,017,160

Measuring the impacts of extractive industries on Indigenous health and wellbeing: Towards an Indigenous health economics approach

SupervisorCIHR2023Fellowship - PA: First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Health

Principal investigators: Nightingale, Elana

Keywords: Community-Based Participatory Research; Determinants Of Health; Impact Assessment; Indigenous Health; Indigenous Health Economics; Indigenous Methodology

$135,000

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2

Nominated PICIHR2021Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 2

Principal investigators: Lewis, Diana M

Keywords: Crc

$600,000

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

Frequent collaborators

School of Public Administration
Geography, Environment and Geomatics
Geography

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Jeffrey Masuda

School of Public Administration

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Heather Castleden

School of Public Administration

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Chantelle Richmond

Geography

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Community-Led Research Dear Professor Lewis, 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 "Confronting epistemic blinders in impact assessment and environmental health risk assessment processes." (2025), 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 "Enacting data sovereignty through knowledge dissemination: Gathering to share our stories and mobilize our knowledge in Fort Chipewyan and Oneida Nation of the Thames" (2024), 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]