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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
Paradigm
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KSTE
Scientific Knowledges
Research
Best Practices and the
Present
• Indigenous
Knowledges
– Community and
Culture
– The Past, Present and
Future
– Tension of World
Views
The National Collaborating Centre at UNBC
The National Collaborating Centre
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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
- Based on relationships
- Rooted in interactions
with the environment
- Holistic
- Accepted truths
- Often intuitive
- Time enhances
knowledge
- Steadily evolving
• Scientific knowledge
– Analytical
– Sceptical
– Based measurement
and replicable
evidence
– Highlights differences
– Knowledge constantly
changing
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