Dr. Nicole Redvers

Biography

Dr. Nicole Redvers, DPhil, ND, MPH, is a member of the Denı́nu Kų́ę́ First Nation (Northwest Territories), and is an Associate Professor, Western Research Chair, and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. She also currently serves as the VP Research for the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC). Dr. Redvers has had previous appointments in both the Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Department of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota, where she helped co-develop the first Indigenous Health PhD degree program in North America. She has been actively involved at regional, national, and international levels promoting the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in both human and planetary health research and practice.

Dr. Redvers sits on the Canada Research Coordinating Committees’ (CRCC) Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research and is an advisory member to the World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on embedding ethics in health and climate change. She is also a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Arctic Health, as well as the Lancet Commission on the Prevention of Viral Spillover; and sits on the steering committee for the Planetary Health Alliance at John Hopkins. Her scholarly work engages a breadth of projects attempting to bridge the gap between Indigenous and Western ways of knowing as it pertains to individual, community, and planetary health. Dr. Redvers is the author of the trade paperback book, “The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles”.