Nicole Redvers

Nicole Redvers

Associate Professor and Western Research Chair, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University (London, ON); VP Research, Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (London, ON)

Dr. Nicole Redvers is a member of the Denı́nu Kų́ę́ First Nation (Northwest Territories), and is an Associate Professor, Western Research Chair, and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. She also currently serves as the Vice President Research at the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC). Dr. Redvers has had previous appointments in both the Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Department of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota where she helped co-develop the first Indigenous Health PhD degree program in North America. She has been actively involved at regional, national, and international levels promoting the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in both human and planetary health research and practice. Dr. Redvers sits on the Canada Research Coordinating Committees’ Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research (ILCR), is a member of the Government of Canada’s Strategic Review Committee for the Biomedical Research Fund and Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund, and is a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Arctic Health as well as the Lancet Commission on the Prevention of Viral Spillover. She additionally sits on the steering committee for the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) based out of John Hopkins, and is an advisory member to the World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on embedding ethics in health and climate change. Her scholarly work engages a breadth of scholarly projects attempting to bridge gaps between Indigenous and Western ways of knowing as it pertains to individual, community and planetary health. Dr. Redvers is the author of the trade paperback book titled, The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles.


Role: Panel Member
Report: The Future of Arctic and Northern Research in Canada

Nicole Redvers is also a member of the CCA’s Scientific Advisory Committee.