INQ-MCGILL Northern research chair in respiratory health & health services
Chairholder
Faiz Ahmad Khan
Université McGill
Mission
The Chair concentrates on two core objectives:
1) Enhance the capacity and effectiveness of Nunavik’s health and housing services to strengthen and protect lung health by studying novel, evidence-based, multidisciplinary interventions that address biomedical and social determinants of lung health.
2) Partner with the Indigenous health research community, Québec’s northern Indigenous health authorities, and community representatives to develop a common approach to facilitate Indigenous health research while ensuring ethical conduct and co-ownership of research.
Context
The Chair’s clinical and policy work in Nunavik provide insight into the challenges Nunavimmiut face when seeking medical care, as well as into the structural barriers that undermine the healthcare system’s capacity to meet patients’ needs. His clinical and policy work in Nunavik have shaped a health research program focused on Nunavimmiut patient and community priorities and grounded in partnerships with community members and Inuit health leadership. The research program strives to uphold, and be consistent with, the reclamation of rights, identities, lands, and autonomy by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Québec.