Day 1 of the ECHO Network Knowledge Exchange Sessions on “Honouring Complexity: Making Space to Address Cumulative Impacts, Climate Change and Co-Benefits”

‘Healing Indicators’: ECHO Network Round Table Panel and Discussion

This Healing Indicators session brings together a panel to discuss emerging research in Indigenous health and wellness in unceded northern BC. The session will explore the space between resource development, Impact Assessment and nation-based sovereignty and self-determination over health, as inextricably interconnected with the environment, and ongoing needs for ‘healing indicators’ that reflect these relationships.

The panel will lead into discussion and reflections from members of the ECHO network to explore these themes in different contexts, ranging from Indigenous-led experiences in Aotearoa/New Zealand, through to health authority experiences in northern BC. The session will also create space for discussion among participants about forward thinking work that realizes and promotes Indigenous leadership in the regulation of Health Impact Assessment and other integrative approaches to environment, equity and health.

Learning objectives are two fold:

• To analyze and discuss indicator work being done in support of community and nation driven health and wellness priorities.
• To explore health and wellness as a space to amplify Indigenous self-determination and nation-based sovereignty over wellness programming and decision making.

To register, visit: https://unbc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wtcumhpz0sEteFNkJhHz8MghpVPQfqr3QG