CHERYL BARNABE — LEAD PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR — DEPARTMENTS OF MEDICINE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

The Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation Network: approach, activities and reflections of an Indigenous mentorship network programme

AlterNative 2023

DOI: 10.1177/11771801231178028

Authors: Cheryl Barnabe, Rita Henderson, Adam Murry, Janelle Baker, Jennifer Leason, Cheryl Currie, Karlee Fellner, Robert Henry, Cora Voyageur, Lynden Crowshoe

The Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation (AIM-HI) Network was created by Indigenous faculty members as an intergenerational mentorship programme for First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) scholars involved in health research training programmes. This article describes the philosophical approach to mentorship, organizational structure for delivering supports to students, and reflects on the successes and learnings from leadership of the Network so far.

Impacts of racism on First Nations patients' emergency care: results of a thematic analysis of healthcare provider interviews in Alberta, Canada

This study documents the perspectives of emergency care providers on care of First Nations patients. Results may inform the content of anti-racist and anti-colonial pedagogy that is contextually customised for emergency department (ED) physicians, as well as inform wider systems efforts to counter racism against First Nations members and settler colonialism within healthcare.

Propelled by the Pandemic: Responses and Shifts in Primary Healthcare Models for Indigenous Peoples

More research is needed on the experiences of Indigenous people with dementia, including Early on-set dementia (EOD), and of their families who care for them. Through a better understanding of the Indigenous experiences of dementia, urban healthcare providers can be more aware of the needs of urban Indigenous people living with dementia, and specifically EOD, and may face and plan to co-design health services accordingly.

First Nations status and emergency department triage scores in Alberta: a retrospective cohort study

CMAJ 2022

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.210779

Authors: Patrick McLane, Cheryl Barnabe, Leslee Mackey, Lea Bill, Katherine Rittenbach, Brian R. Holroyd, Anne Bird, Bonnie Healy, Kris Janvier, Eunice Louis and Rhonda J. Rosychuk

Previous studies have marked race as a factor that affects emergency department triage scores. For First Nations people, their status was associated with lower odds of higher acuity triage scores across a number of conditions and diagnoses, which may indicate systemic racism, stereotyping and potentially other factors that affected triage assessments.

The representation of Indigenous peoples in chronic disease clinical trials in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States

Clinical Trials 2022

DOI: 10.1177/17407745211069153

Authors: Valerie Umaefulam, Tessa Kleissen, Cheryl Barnabe

Indigenous peoples are overrepresented with chronic health conditions and experience less optimal outcomes compared with non-Indigenous peoples, and yet clinical trials addressing chronic disease conditions in Indigenous populations are limited. It is of utmost importance to ensure adequate representation of Indigenous peoples in clinical trials to ensure trial data are applicable to their clinical care, as genetic variations influence therapeutic responses.