Canada
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority
- Country:
- Canada
- Entity type:
- Regional Indigenous health authority
- Relationship:
- Health-system and community-connected partner
- Connected work:
- Listening to Our Women; Listening to Elders; Related community-based health research
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority connects WEMA-associated research with communities and health services across the western James Bay and Hudson Bay region. Collaborative work involving Karen Yeates has included cervical-cancer screening and broader community-based research in remote Indigenous settings. The collaboration is shaped by participatory and culturally responsive approaches that keep community priorities, lived experience and local health-system realities central to the research.
How we work together
WAHA brings community relationships, regional health-system experience and locally grounded perspectives into the design and implementation of research.
Contribution to the collaboration
Its involvement helps ensure that research is developed with the people and health services it is intended to support, with careful attention to context, trust and cultural safety.