Dianne is of Maori descent. Her iwi or tribe is Ngati Kahungunu. She has worked in mental health for several years and has maintained her counseling skills as a family court counsellor. Dianne is of Maori descent. Her iwi or tribe is Ngati Kahungunu. She has worked in mental health for several years and has maintained her counseling skills as a family court counsellor.  She has been involved in many local, regional and national organizations in the field of social work, community work, domestic violence, mental health and Maori health.


She has taught Kawa Whakaruruhau / cultural safety for the past eleven years and coordinates several teaching teams in the area of Hauora (Maori health), mental health and cultural safety within

the Faculty of Health & Sport

Science, Eastern Institute of

Technology, Hawkes Bay.  Dianne has

presented at cultural safety and transcultural

nursing conferences throughout New Zealand

and in the USA.


She has published articles in several journals overseas and New

Zealand and is the editor of Cultural Safety in Aotearoa, New

Zealand and Clinical Supervision in Aotearoa New Zealand: A

health perspective. She is currently working on a second edition

of her book on Cultural Safety.




 
  University of British Columbia
Okanagan
 

Indigenous Studies  

Current Research

INDIGENOUS STUDIES:

Event Organizers

Dr. Rachelle Hole, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan and Okanagan Aboriginal Health Research Action Group (OAHRAG).


OAHRAG is an inclusive committee that is open to all community members and organizations in the Okanagan valley with a stake in Aboriginal health research and all interested University researchers. Our aim is to facilitate communication and relationships between university researchers, community researchers and community organizations regarding ongoing research initiatives and new potential research areas, needs, and opportunities.


Funders

Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Interior Health.


Sponsors

Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) – Health and Social Development Committee, Interior Health and UBC Okanagan.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

Dianne Wepa, B.S.W, C.Q.S.W, Pgrad Dip (Swk), Mphil (Swk), MANZASW, Phd (cand.)  Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand


View Dianne Weba’s powerpoint presentation:



Dr. Jennifer Baker, South Australia, Australia


Dr. Jenny Baker is a Mirning woman whose lands are the area of the Great Australian Bight on the southern coast of Australia. She was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide South Australia, for her thesis Theorising Survival: Indigenous Women and Social and Emotional Wellbeing. She has a Masters in Primary Health Care also from Flinders University and was a Registered Nurse at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital.


She is currently the Portfolio Leader for Teaching and Learning and Postgraduate Program director at the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research at the University of South Australia (UniSA) in Adelaide. Jenny teaches into the School of Nursing at UniSA and

previously worked in the medical

schools at both Flinders University and

the University of Adelaide teaching in the field of Aboriginal health.


Prior to her university work Jenny was involved as clinical manager

at the Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) in Adelaide now called

Nunkuwarrin Yunti. She regards this period at the AMS, when she

was involved in the national meetings for the drafting of the

National Aboriginal Health Strategy (1989) and as a councillor

for the National Aboriginal and Islander Health Organization

(now NACCHO), as having the most formative effect on her

understanding of health and the politics of the health system.

 

Dr. Evan Adams, British Columbia, Canada


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View Dr. Jennifer Baker’s powerpoint presentation:



Dr. Evan Adams is currently the Aboriginal Health Physician Advisor in the provincial Ministry of Health, responsible for monitoring and reporting on the health of Aboriginal people in British Columbia, and tracking progress against performance measures in the First Nations Health Plan. He is also a member of the newly created ActNow BC Leadership Council - to lead British Columbia in the promotion of healthy living and physical fitness.


Evan Tlesla II Adams is a Coast Salish actor-turned-physician from the Sliammon Band near Powell River, BC. Adams completed three years of pre-med studies at the University of British Columbia and

received a Medical Doctorate at the

University of Calgary in 2002. He

completed an Aboriginal Family Practice

Residency program - during which he

was Chief Resident - at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver in 2005.


Adams is the past-President of the Indigenous Physicians

Association of Canada (IPAC) and is the current Director of

the Division of Aboriginal People's Health in the UBC

Department of Family Practice. Adams is also an

award-winning actor, known for his roles in the

Emmy-award winning TV-movie Lost in the Barrens,

on the TV series Da Vinci's City Hall, and the feature

film Smoke Signals.

 

View Dr. Evan Adam’s powerpoint presentation:



Cultural Safety Symposium

Keynote Speaker Bios and Powerpoints