Dr. Debbie Martin (Nick Pearce photo)

Starting this Fall, Dr. Debbie Martin (School of Health and Human Performance) will be teaching the course “IPHE 2201 – Introduction to Aboriginal Peoples’ Health and Healing.”  The course, open to all undergraduate students in the Faculty of Health Professions, will provide an opportunity to learn about Aboriginal perspectives regarding health, as well as about the multiple and complex challenges facing Aboriginal peoples with respect to key health issues such as; health and social inequities, the epidemiology of disease and culturally appropriate service provision.

In a recent Global Martimes interview, Dr. Martin said that one aim of the course is to help students look at health issues from an indigenous perspective, and to provide health care with that angle in mind, further stating, “There are different ways of approaching health and health care that we don’t often think about.”