Masters Fellowship Awarded
Welcome to Alexandra Kent, the successful candidate of a Centre for Aboriginal Health Research Centre (CAHR) and Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH) Master’s Fellowship in health equity and Indigenous health for 2014.
Alex has been working as a Research Assistant with Dr. Charlotte Reading at the Centre for Aboriginal Health Research exploring current health governance structures as a contributing factor to the disproportionate burden of ill-health experienced by some First Nations communities. She has experience as a Research Assistant in a study on residential school resistance narratives and with Sts'ailes First Nation as a project coordinator for their Education Department.
Alex recently completed a Bachelor of Arts in Health and Community Services at University of Victoria and in fall, 2014 will be entering the Masters of Public Health and Social Policy at UVic. As part of the CAHR/ELPH Masters Fellowship, she will be working directly with Drs. Charlotte Reading, and Jeannine Carriere on an analysis of public health services through an Indigenous health equity lens. Alex will be located at the CAHR and work closely with the ELPH Study one team. We are delighted to welcome Alex as the next generation of scholars in health equity and Indigenous health.