Notice Board

Please join us for our Health Interprofessional Seminar Series with speaker Dr. Sean Hillier.

The talk is titled Forced to Move, Forced to Age: Displacement and the Disruption of Indigenous Lifeways

Dr. Sean Hillier is a Mi’kmaw scholar, a member of the Qalipu First Nation. He is an associate professor and York Research Chair in Indigenous Health Policy & One Health at the Faculty of Health of York University. He serves as the Strategic Advisor to the Dean of Health for the School of Medicine Implementation. Hillier sits on the National Interagency Panel on Research Ethics. His collaborative research program spans the topics of aging, living with HIV and other infectious diseases, and antimicrobial resistance, all with a concerted focus on policy affecting health-care access for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Hillier has been successful in receiving funding from each of the three federal granting agencies and is the Associate Director for the CFREF-funded project Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society.