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First Nations, Inuit and Métis Health

Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital are working closely with First Nations, Inuit and Métis on research to improve health. Ottawa has the highest urban Inuit population in Canada and The Ottawa Hospital is the designated tertiary hospital for the Eastern sector of Nunavut.

This page includes selected news stories about research at The Ottawa Hospital involving First Nations, Inuit and Métis.


Labs and Groups

These research teams may include multiple scientists, investigators, staff and trainees all working towards a common goal, or they can represent a single scientist and their team.

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Research Group
Hatching Ideas Lab
The Hatching Ideas Lab is a research lab headed by Dr. Simon Hatcher based out of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Our program of research f...
Dr Gonzalo Alvarez
Scientist

Gonzalo Alvarez

Senior Scientist, Inflammation and Chronic Disease
Simon Hatcher
Scientist

Simon Hatcher

Scientist, Neuroscience
Smita Pakhale
Scientist

Smita Pakhale

Senior Scientist, Inflammation and Chronic Disease
Timothy Ramsay
Scientist

Timothy Ramsay

Senior Scientist, Methodological and Implementation Research

Publications

The following research publications from The Ottawa Hospital are pulled from PubMed, with publication date of 2020 or later. Note that PubMed is hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and is only available in English.

Participant Diversity and Inclusive Trial Design: A Meta-Epidemiologic Study of Canadian Randomized Clinical Trials.

2025-12-08 Go to publication

A field-test of Not Deciding Alone to support Inuit with health decision making: co-production of a mixed methods study guided by aajiiqatigiingniq.

2025-12-01 Go to publication

Sun-Safety Understanding Among Canadian Elementary Students: A Survey-Based Cohort Study Across Racial/Ethnic Groups.

2025-09-01 Go to publication

Real-World Selection of Patients for Allogeneic HCT at a Single Centre: Lack of a Suitable Donor and Other Reasons for Not Proceeding.

2025-08-29 Go to publication

Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine confidence among Arab, Asian, Black, Indigenous, and White individuals in Canada: Latent profile analyses.

2025-08-13 Go to publication
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