knowledge translation and indigenous perspectives

							Knowledge Translation and
 Indigenous Perspectives:
           A View to the Future


               Margo Greenwood
                    Academic Leader
  The National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
 Framework of the Presentation
• An Evidence Based            • Indigenous
  Paradigm                       Knowledges
  –   KSTE                       – Community and
  –   Scientific Knowledges        Culture
  –   Research                   – The Past, Present and
  –   Best Practices and the       Future
      Present                    – Tension of World
                                   Views
The National Collaborating Centre at UNBC
    The National Collaborating Centre
•   Located at UNBC
•   One of six NCCs established by PHAC
•   Only population based NCC
•   National in scope with provincial and regional
    applications
NCCAH’s Primary Focuses
            • Maternal/Child Health
            • Mental Health and
              Addictions
            • Public Health Policy
              Synthesis and
              Analysis
 Undertaking the NCCAH’s Focus

• Partnerships and
  Collaborations
• Knowledge Synthesis,
  Translation, and
  Exchange (KSTE)
       Accomplishing KSTE
• Systematic Reviews
• Scoping Reviews
Indigenous Knowledges
       Commonalities between
        Indigenous Peoples
• Contact with other cultures
  often led to adversity
• Colonisation & urbanisation
• Socio-economic disparities
• Resource depletion
• Lower standards of health
  Indigenous Knowledge
• Based on relationships
• Rooted in interactions
  with the environment
• Holistic
• Accepted truths
• Often intuitive
• Time enhances
  knowledge
• Steadily evolving
       Two Worlds, One World of
             Possibility
• Indigenous knowledge       • Scientific knowledge
  - Based on relationships     – Analytical
  - Rooted in interactions     – Sceptical
  with the environment         – Based measurement
  - Holistic                     and replicable
  - Accepted truths              evidence
  - Often intuitive            – Highlights differences
  - Time enhances              – Knowledge constantly
  knowledge                      changing
  - Steadily evolving
Making KSTE Meaningful to
    Aboriginal Peoples
             • Ethical spaces
             • Understanding
               Indigenous knowledges
             • Useful and meaningful of
               communities
             • Reciprocity
             • Safe
             • Respect
          Views to the Future
• A connection of two
  world views, an ethical
  space, respectful and
  representative of two
  worlds
• The best of two
  worlds, an ethical
  space