NCCs collaborate on a national forum, focus on eliminating TB in northern Indigenous communities
By
Dianne Oickle (she/her)
on
March 07, 2018
Dianne Oickle (she/her), MSc
Knowledge Translation Specialist
Dianne has been with NCCDH since 2014. Formerly a registered dietitian for 26 years, her practice included 16 years of frontline public health nutrition focused mostly on reproductive and child health in rural settings with many diverse clients. As a white settler cis-gendered woman, her passion for meaningful engagement of people with lived expertise of inequities to inform public health priorities drives her motivation. Her work at NCCDH focuses on community engagement, language and terminology of health equity, mental health promotion, 2SLGBTQI+ health, environmental public health, food systems/justice and digital equity. Dianne earned a BSc at St. Francis Xavier University and an MSc at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Back in early February, four NCCs came together to host an NCC Knowledge Exchange Forum Towards TB Elimination in Northern and Indigenous Communities. The event was designed to bolster collaboration between the NCCs and experts in the field regarding this ongoing health crisis in Canada.
Read the event recap here.
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CollaborationIndigenous healthInfectious disease