Group for Research with Indigenous Peoples

GRIP's mandate is to encourage population and public health research that mobilizes partners to help create, reinforce and sustain conditions conducive to healing, reconciliation and self-determination.

Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2009, p. 7

OCAP – Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession

GRIP promotes research practices that are holistic, informed by the determinants of population health and apply the best evidence in Indigenous health research. GRIP has active working relationships with local, regional, national, and international organizations to facilitate research networks and knowledge translation to policy and programming. GRIP hosts the Community Advisory Council, which includes community members who serve as liaisons to the broader community and who can advise on research processes including the handling of principles of ethical research (OCAP – Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession).

Download the OCAP FAQ document

Indigenous Health Research Forum

As part of their activities, the group holds an annual research forum (this year: May 15, 2018 - a full agenda is available here; register here), as well as a journal club entitled "Decolonizing Journal Club", which occurs the last Tuesday of each month.

View Invitation and Call for Abstracts

GRIP Speaker Series

Watch epidemiological oncologist Dr. Gail Garvey’s presentation on improving cancer outcomes among Australia’s Indigenous population at the inaugural Group for Research of Indigenous Peoples (GRIP) Speaker Series.

To watch the recording of this event, please email iph@ucalgary.ca

For more information, please contact: Rita Henderson, rihender@ucalgary.ca Sign up here for the GRIP email list

Group for Research with Indigenous Peoples

GRIP

OCAP – Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession

Indigenous Health Research Forum

Annual Reports

Important Documents

GRIP Speaker Series