HRI Winter 2012 Profiling Scholars Symposium

“The Humanities and Health Research”

When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 – 3:30pm-5:00pm

Where: LI 215

All welcome; free admission

“Existential courage and recovery from injury: Resilience, Hardiness, and WCB”

Dr. David Cruise Malloy is the Associate Vice President (Research) at the University of Regina.  He is the Principal Investigator for the International Healthcare Ethics Research Team at the University of Regina;  Foreign Director of the International Bioethics Research Institute of Shandong Province, China;  Principal Investigator and Honorary Dean of the Research Institute for Multiculturalism and Applied Philosophy at Hunan University, China; and, a Fellow of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association in Client Counseling and Organisational Consulting.

Dr. Malloy’s research focus is in applied philosophy in administration. His interests include ethical decision-making, codes of ethics, existential hardiness, personhood, and ethical climate/culture. He has published numerous refereed articles (55 to date) and is the co-author of five texts dealing with applied ethics and philosophy. His current research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canadian Institutes for Health (CIHR), and WorkSafeBC.

“Applied Humanities and Health Research:  A Close Reading of the Human Text”

Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew is a Métis woman born in Manitoba who has been a long time resident of Saskatchewan. On leave from the First Nations University of Canada English Department, Jo-Ann is Director of the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre.  She is Associate Faculty in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies and the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Saskatchewan.
The focus of her research is the applications of Indigenous literature and drama and the role they can play healing Indigenous communities from historical trauma.

She is a Principal Investigator on a CIHR Operating Grant in partnership with the File Hills Tribal Council Health Services that uses theatre to examine and develop Aboriginal youth as health leaders. Research findings have been published in Passion for Action: Building on the Strength and Innovative Changes in Child and Family Services – Voices from the Prairies (2009), Children Under Construction: Play as Curriculum (2010), and the Native Studies Review (2012). She is also a Principal Investigator on a CIHR Operating Grant that will develop respiratory health interventions in two First Nations communities. In 2009, Jo-Ann’s book Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing in 2009 and the First Peoples’ Writing Award in 2010. Jo-Ann is a member of the Board of the Aboriginal Health Research Network and the Lung Association of Saskatchewan.