Lyana Patrick

Dr. Lyana Patrick is Dakelh from the Stellat’en First Nation and Acadian/Scottish. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Her research program addresses intersecting aspects of human, animal and planetary health that converge in Indigenous frameworks of health and well-being.

She has worked in communications and education for over two decades. Dr. Patrick worked in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia where she developed curriculum, managed education programs, and promoted knowledge translation of Indigenous research findings to health care providers and health sciences students. She has worked on evaluation projects connected to Indigenous health and education. She received a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to pursue a PhD in the School of Community and Regional Planning where in 2019 she became the first Indigenous PhD graduate.

Dr. Patrick’s research builds on robust research partnerships with urban and First Nations communities to better understand how Indigenous peoples counter wide-spread anti-Indigenous racism by asserting self determination. Key to this work is the mobilization of land-based, Indigenous knowledge to transform relationships between Indigenous peoples and industry/health service agencies. She incorporates film and other multimedia in her work and is committed to public scholarship as a creative and collaborative process of exploration with Indigenous communities.