Indigenous Peoples' Health

To build a foundation for conducting respectful oral health research with Indigenous communities in Canada. This aspiration requires reflecting on questions such as: What are the best practices for working with Indigenous communities in Canada? What does it mean to ‘decolonize’ research methods and practices? In what ways should oral health research respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action? What must be on our ‘research agenda’ moving forward?

Paulette Dahlseide, DipDH, BSc, MSc, RDH (she/her)

Program Lead, Wâpanachakos Indigenous Health Program
Assistant Clinical Professor, Mike Petryk School of Dentistry
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta

Chair, NCOHR Indigenous Peoples' Health Working Group

Paulette Dahlseide, a dental hygienist of 30 years, is a proud Métis woman and citizen of the Métis Nation in Alberta. Living and working on Treaty 6 territory of the Cree, the Nakoda Sioux, the Dene, and the Saulteaux, her family names are Garneau, Lacombe, Lavallee and Thomas with extensive history and connection to the Métis homelands of the Red River and into Northeastern Alberta. She holds a Diploma in Dental Hygiene (1994), Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene (2014) and Master of Science Medical Sciences (2024) from the University of Alberta.

As a clinician, Paulette’s independent dental hygiene practice, a storefront and mobile clinic, has been committed to bringing accessible, preventive oral healthcare to patients in their homes, community health centres, schools and long term care facilities since 2010. As a researcher, her work focuses on community led, relational and reciprocal approaches to knowledge co-creation and translation. She currently works as an assistant clinical professor at the Mike Petryk School of Dentistry and Program Lead for the Wâpanachakos Indigenous Health Program in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta.

Indigenous Peoples' Health

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