Grant Funding within the last four fiscal years
(April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2010)
The social environment and the health of first nations women and men
Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias
Co-Investigators: Javier Mignone, Jitender Sareen, John O’Neil, Brian Cox
Manitoba First Nations health report card: A collaborative network project to understand health disparities
Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias
Co-Investigators: Erich Kliewer, Patricia Martens, Javier Mignone, John O’Neil
CIHR/CCMB Team in First Nations cancer research
Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias,
Co-Principal Investigator: Donna Turner
Co-Investigators: Patricia Martens, Sharon Bruce, Alain Demers, Piotr Czaykowski, Erich Kliewer, E. Jane Griffith, Loraine Marrett
Resilient indigenous health workforce networks: constructing an international framework
Principal Investigator: Judith Bartlett
Co-Investigators: Y. Iwasaki, Eduardo Jovel, Malcolm King, John O’Neil
Manitoba network environment for aboriginal health research
Principal Investigator: Catherine Cook
Co-Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias
Co-Investigators: Javier Mignone, Judith Bartlett, Sharon Bruce, Valerie Galley, Michael Moffatt, Patricia Martens, Kathi Avery Kinew, John O’Neil, Rachel Eni
Treatment of DMARD naïve patients with poor prognosis rheumatoid arthritis using Rituximab: A pilot study evaluating synovial outcomes
Principal Investigator: Hani El-Gabalawy
Co-Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias
Co-Investigators: Fawzi Aoudjij, Carol Hitchon, Walid Mourad
Provincial support - Networks of Centres of Excellence – NCEPrincipal Investigator: Hani El-Gabalawy
Co-Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias
Co-Investigators: Fawzi Aoudjij, Carol Hitchon, Walid Mourad
Implementing and evaluating a knowledge translation framework using Metis specific health information to adapt Manitoba’s health programs and services to better meet Métis needs
Principal Investigators: Judith Bartlett, Loretta Bayer, Catherine Cook
Co-investigators: Sheila Carter, Brenda Elias, Patricia Martens, Julianne Sanguines
Leaving for the city: An exploration of cultural, social, health and economic dimensions of Manitoba first nations relocating to urban centres to access medical care
Principal Investigator: Josèe Lavoie
Co-Investigators: Tracey Galloway, John O’Neil
Towards an evidence-informed clinical and indigenous knowledge translation intervention to address co-morbidity disparities in indigenous cancer outcomes (Letter of Intent)
Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias
Co-Principal Investigator: Catherine Cook
Co-Investigators: Alain Demers, Erich Kliewer, Vallerie Gordon, Piotr Czaykowski, Joseph Kaufert, Marshal Pitz
Using evidence to identify the need for investments in primary health care services on Manitoban first nations reserves
Principal Investigator: Josèe Lavoie
Co-Investigators: Evelyn Forget, Patricia Martens, John O’Neil
Indigenous western and traditional doctors forum
Principal Investigator: Marcia Anderson
Comprehensive primary health care in the Island Lake communities: What does this mean and how does it look?
Principal Investigator: Marcia Anderson
Working together: Indigenous western and traditional doctors
Principal Investigator: Marcia Anderson
Total $6,628,785.00
Associated Grant Funding (within U of M) within the last four fiscal years (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2010)
Unraveling the disability trajectory of First Nations families of children with disabilities: Advancing Jordan's Principle
Principal Investigator: Roberta Woodgate
Co-Investigators: Christine Blais, Brenda Elias, Joannie Halas, Donna Martin, Michael Moffatt, Gina Rempel, Jacqueline Ripat
Interactive and adaptive exercise and educational gaming therapy system for intervention of children with neuro-developmental disorders, Letter of Intent Development Grant
Principal Investigator: Tony Szturm
Co-Investigators: Alex Brodsky, Brenda Elias, Lorna Jakobson, Jonathan Marotta, James Peters, Eleoussa Polyzoi, Sheela Ramanna
Early identification of rheumatoid arthritis in Canadian First Nations
Principal Investigator: Hani El-Gabalawy
Co-Investigators: Brenda Elias, Elizabeth Ferucci, Carol Hitchon, Kiem Oen, Christine Peschken
International symposium on rheumatoid arthritis in indigenous people: Molecules to Communities
Principal Investigator: Hani El-Gabalawy
Co-Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias
Comparing rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease by serology, gene studies and ethnicity: Using commonalities and differences to develop etiologic hypotheses
Principal Investigator: Charles Bernstein
Co-Investigators: Hani El-Gabalawy, Brenda Elias, Mark Silverberg, Xikui Wang
From risk factors to cultural sensitive intervention: A programmatic approach to Aboriginal suicide
Principal Investigator: Jitender Sareen
Co-Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias
Co-Investigators: Murray Enns, Laurence Katz, John O’Neil, Catherine Cook, Brian Cox
Early identification of rheumatoid arthritis in First Nations
Principal Investigator: Hani El-Gabalawy
Co-Investigators: Brenda Elias, Elizabeth Ferucci, Carol Hitchon, Kiem Oen, Christine Peschken
Describing service and treatment needs of children and adolescents in the child welfare system - their morbidity and mortality
Principal Investigator: Laurence Katz
Co-Investigators: Brenda Elias, Murray Enns, Jitender Sareen, Patricia Martens, Noralou Roos
Improving the capacity of Cree community members to recognize youth at risk for suicide: A culturally grounded cluster randomized controlled trial
Principal Investigator: Jitender Sareen
Co-Investigators: Brenda Elias, Murray Enns, Laurence Katz, Garry Munro
Consequences of suicide bereavement: A population-based study in Manitoba
Principal Investigator: James Bolton
Co-Investigators: Brenda Elias, Laurence Katz, Patricia Martens, Leslie Roos, Jitender Sareen
Total $5,395,259.00
Associated Grant Funding With Other Universities within the last four fiscal years (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2010)
National centre for Aboriginal HIV/AIDS research (Letter of Intent), (U of Victoria)
Principal Investigators: Charlotte Loppie Reading, J. Kevin Barlow
Co-Investigators: Roy Cain, Brenda Elias, Dionne Gesink Law, Robert Hogg, Judith Mill, John O’Neil, Barbara Paterson, Raven Sinclair, Patricia Spittal
Research demonstration project in homelessness and mental health (Sub-Project) (U of Winnipeg)
Principal Investigator: Jitender Sareen
Co-Investigators: Brenda Elias, Murray Enns, Laurence Katz, et al
Culturally based, family centered mental health promotion for Aboriginal youth ( U of McGill)
Principal Investigator: Laurence Kirmayer
Manitoba Co-Investigators: Brenda Elias, Murray Enns, Laurence Katz, Jitender Sareen