What is the situation? Despite Canada’s commitment to universal healthcare, Indigenous communities are still facing persistent inequities in accessing care. These inequities contribute to higher rates of chronic disease, worse health behaviours, and lower overall health expectancy (Liddy et al., 2019). Ear and hearing health is one of the more obvious examples of these disparities faced. Chronic otitis media occurs more often, earlier, and with higher severity among First Na

Another semester end has snuck up on me! This semester brought a lot of personal challenges, and I am grateful to have had the space to learn here. It was interesting how closely aligned the topics were in this course with learnings in my career. Being able to attend the First Nations Health Managers Conference in the middle of the semester was such an incredible opportunity to listen and learn from lived experiences and apply what I had heard to assignments and reflections.

The midpoint for this course is shaped by a lot of humility and an openness to learn and do better moving forward. This week I had the utmost privilege of attending the First Nations Health Managers Association (FNHMA) Conference where I experienced a very moving (and full) two days. Being surrounded by Indigenous peoples sharing their stories, community successes, and lived experiences was both inspiring and difficult to hear, knowing that my people (I identify as Caucasian)