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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 – – – – 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 • • • • 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