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Exploring Health Research Practices and Other Ways of Knowing

National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
NCCIH supports a renewed public health system that is inclusive and respectful of diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
Learning Across Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems and Intersectionality (2018)
This report contributes to truth and reconciliation by offering ideas for how to do research that is intentional about learning from Indigenous and Western ways of knowing, and about incorporating marginalized voices from within multiple knowledge systems. Publication download is free at link.
Knowledge translation approaches and practices in Indigenous health research: A systematic review (2022)
Knowledge translation (KT) is a critical component of any applied health research. Indigenous Peoples' health research and KT largely continues to be taught, developed, designed, regulated, and conducted in ways that do not prioritize local Indigenous Peoples' ways of sharing knowledges. This review was governed and informed by Indigenous health scholars, Knowledge Guardians, and Elders. Our systematic review focused on answering, what are the promising and wise practices for KT in the Indigenous health research field? We highlight and summarize the varied aims of Indigenous health research KT, types of KT methodologies and methods used, effectiveness of KT efforts, impacts of KT on Indigenous Peoples' health and wellness, as well as recommendations and lessons learned.
Selecting implementation models, theories, and frameworks in which to integrate intersectional approaches
BMC Medical Research Methodology (2022) 22:212
Horsethief, C., Pierre, S., Shahram, S., Pauly, B., Kent, A., Keyes, S., Murray, K., Driscoll, J. & Sumac, S. (2022). ʔitqawxawiȼikimik everyone holds this belief together: Guiding principles for research & engagement within the Ktunaxa Nation. xaȼqanaǂ ʔ

Guiding Principles for Research and Engagement Within the Ktunaxa Nation

Khan, S., & Moore, J. E. (2023). Equity Guiding Questions. The Center for Implementation. Retrieved from https://thecenterforimplementation.com/equity-guiding-questions
These guiding questions were created to help all of us reflect on equity in different ways throughout each implementation action or activity. From The Center for Implementation.

Leadership Development

Diversity among health care leaders in Canada: a cross-sectional study of perceived gender and race
Sergeant, A., Saha, S., Lalwani, A., Sergeant, A., McNair, A., Larrazabal, E., CMAJ, 194(10), E371–E377.
Getting Real About Inclusive Leadership, Why Change Starts With You
Leading outward is what you do to ensure team members are treated fairly, empowered, and able to flourish. Leading inward requires a hard look at who you are and your inner ability to act courageously, learn, and self-reflect.
Hospital Leadership Diversity and Strategies to Advance Health Equity
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Vol 44(9), Sep 2018, pages 545-551
Healthcare leadership's diversity paradox
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Leadership in Health Services, 30(1), 68-75 Silver, R. (2017).
Advancing Diversity Leadership in Health Care
Nursing Administration Quarterly 37(3):p 269-271, July/September 2013. DOI: 10.1097/NAQ.0b013e318296923d

Anti-Racism

“Who has been here that looks like me?”: A narrative inquiry into Black, Indigenous, and People of Color graduate nursing students' experiences of white academic spaces
Neda Hamzavi Helen Brown
Open Access. Nursing Inquiry, 2023. DOI: 10.1111/nin.12568

Toward a Moral Horizon: Nursing Ethics for Leadership and Practice
Starzomski, Rosalie; Storch, Janet L.; Rodney, Patricia.
Publication date: 2023 Apr 25
Open access. Click on "show full item record" to view PDFs of each chapter.
Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility and anti-racism
British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (BCCN&M)
Anti-Racism Resources
School of Nursing, UBC
PHSA Education Conversations
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Occurs on the last Wednesday of every month with conversations on topics such as; Microaggressions, Allyship, Bias, and more. Each month will feature a different topic.
Equity Oriented Health Care
EQUIP Health Care is a research and implementation program that involves health equity interventions implemented in a range of health care settings.
Anti-Racism Resources, artwork, reminders
From the Government of BC
Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network
Anti-racism tools and resources
Racism and Health Equity
Tips for embracing critical, decolonizing and anti-racist approaches in public health practice and discusses roles public health can engage in to address racism.

Books to borrow from the CW Study and Learning Commons

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Trainers by Maria Morukian
Call Number: REF NR 100 MOR 2022
ISBN: 9781953946058
Publication Date: 2022-01-11
When done well, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training creates space for courageous conversations that acknowledge hard truths around systemic inequities and explores topics that touch on people's vulnerabilities in all facets of their lives. For those of you who do this work, there has not been a clear path to follow for making progress.
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
Call Number: REF NR 100 DIA 2018
ISBN: 9780807047415
Publication Date: 2018-06-26
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
How to Be an Inclusive Leader, Second Edition by Jennifer Brown
Call Number: REF NR 100 BRO 2022
ISBN: 9781523002009
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
On Being Included by Sara Ahmed
Call Number: 9780-8223-52365
ISBN: 9780822352365
Publication Date: 2012-03-28
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life.

Respectful Relations & Workplace Culture

Integrating Workforce Health Into Employer Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
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American Journal of Health Promotion, 35(5), 609–612. Sherman, B. W., Kelly, R. K., & Payne-Foster, P. (2021).
Racism Is Still a Problem in Healthcare’s C-Suite
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Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity
Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 60-65 (6 pages)
Better Decisions Through Diversity
Phillips, K., Liljenquist, K. & Neale, M. (2010).
The Reality for Minorities Exploring Nurse Executive Leadership
The Journal of Nursing Administration, 51(6):p E18-E19, June 2021. | DOI: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000001026
How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
Robert Livingston, Harvard Business Review, September-October 2020
Film: The Unforgotten
Created by BUILD. Films and Networked Health, with funding and support from the Canadian Medical Association, this film is shining a light on the impacts of colonialism and systemic racism.
Test Your Implicit Bias - Implicit Association Test (IAT)
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures the strength of associations between concepts and evaluations or stereotypes to reveal an individual’s hidden or subconscious biases.
Respectful Language Guide, PHSA
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This guide is designed to enhance how PHSA engages with Indigenous people as an organization and as individuals.
APA Inclusive Language Guidelines
Intentional Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Decision-Making
The purpose of this tool is to support units, departments, faculties, and divisions1 in intentionally considering equity, diversity, and inclusion as part of their decision-making processes.
Mapping Your Journey to the 50-30 Challenge
From the government of Canada: Organizations limited in diversity harness only a fraction of their talent’s potential and leave opportunities for creativity, innovation, and impact untapped
Health Equity Is Everyone's Job in a Hospital
This shift in perspective is an essential step toward achieving any hospital’s goals.
By John Cowden, M.D., M.P.H., Jessi Van Roekel, M.P.A. Published April 26, 2022