![]() ![]() ![]() Jo-Ann’s book Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing (2009) won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing in 2009 and the First Peoples Writing Award in 2010. In addition to leading the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre, a partnership between the University of Regina, University of Saskatchewan, and First Nations University, Episkenew was an active researcher and Co-PI on several Operating Grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and NPI for a team recently awarded a Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Health Research Group Grant. ![]() She made important contributions to SPAR's work through broad research expertise in Indigenous Literatures as applied literatures, narrative medicine, narrative policy studies, and trauma studies. Jo-Ann Episkenew was a member of the SPAR research team from 2012 until her untimely death in February 2016. Jo-Ann Episkenew (Director, Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre, University of Regina Associate Faculty, Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina and Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan Professor of English, First Nations University of Canada) ![]()
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