A Week in the Life of a Field Researcher

LungFIT: Pulmonary Rehab Podcast

In this episode, I share some of my work related to lung health in partnership with Carrier Sekani Family Services and First Nations communities in north central British Columbia. I talk a bit about why I am doing this work, then described some of the activities we did on our recent trip a couple of weeks ago. I mention some of the principles I bring as the researcher to this work, in terms of responsibility, opportunity, flexibility and accountability, and why I’m drawn to the unpredictable nature of research down outside of the hospital or university setting.

If you’d like to know more about Carrier Sekani Family Services, their website is www.csfs.org

If you’d like to hear me speak about this work in more detail, feel free to email me at [e-mail]

If you’d like to read a couple of papers which describe this work, you can find them here: 1. Scoping Review of Telehealth Use by Indigenous Populations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1357633X231158835

2. “Bayis Ilh Tus – A Strong Breath: a community-based research project to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in remote and rural First Nations communities in Canada: research protocol. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-020-01240-1

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