The United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls-to-Action, and McGill's own Provost's Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education speak individually and collectively to the rights of Indigenous Peoples to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and the need to revisit and re-establish ethical and respectful requirements for university research carried out within Indigenous communities or on Indigenous territories.

McGill's Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE) is an independent, multi-disciplinary research and education centre created in 1992 by Canada's Aboriginal leaders. CINE's mission is to collaborate with indigenous and local communities in research and education related to food systems and ecological health.

In this masterclass, Murray Humphries, PhD'01, Associate Professor, McGill Northern Research Chair, Director Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE) Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, BSc(NutrSc)'93, MSc'96, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier II in Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Food Security, Associate Director Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE) and Niladri Basu, PhD'05, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Health Sciences will discuss Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition, Food Security, and Well-being, including how new CINE initiatives in research and education relate to international-to-institutional calls-to-action. Panelists will discuss the absence of a specific focus on food systems and their contributions to health and self-determination within these calls-to-action and identify promising steps forward related to Indigenous Peoples' food security and well-being that need to be better supported.

Brought to you by the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Une présentation de la Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'environnement.

Please click here to watch this event on September 25 at 3:30 p.m.