Important Announcements

Registration Open for the Aboriginal Health Speakers Series "Aboriginal Nursing: Pathways Among Communities, College and University"

DATE: Monday, February 13th, 2012
TIME: 9:00am-3:30pm
LOCATION: Celebration Hall (basement, Kenneth Taylor Hall), McMaster University

"Aboriginal Nursing: Pathways Among Communities, College and University" is the second and final Aboriginal Health forum in the Aboriginal Students Health Sciences (ASHS) office Aboriginal Health Speaker Series for 2012. The series focuses on the health priorities specific to First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. Including Aboriginal and Indigenous speakers from across the country who represent community based workers, clinicians, researchers, scholars, policy makers, Elders and Traditional healers; the health forums are discipline specific and collaborative.

For more information or to register, please click here to go to the web page.

Posting: ASHS Faculty Advisor

McMaster University's Faculty of Health Sciences is searching for a Faculty Advisor to work with the ASHS office. The ASHS Faculty Advisor is an Aboriginal health professional with a faculty appointment in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at McMaster University. Working in collaboration with the ASHS Director and the Aboriginal Health Subcommittee, the Faculty Advisor (ASHS) is one of the representatives of FHS on the President’s Committee on Indigenous Issues.  The Faculty Advisor (ASHS) reports to the Associate Dean (Education) FHS.

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Posting: Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies

McMaster University’s Indigenous Studies Program invites applications from Indigenous scholars of international reputation, established prominence, or dynamic promise for the Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies, effective July 1, 2012.

The role of the Chair will be to contribute significantly to the body of scholarship in Indigenous knowledge, with particular emphasis on the importance of strengthening and preserving Hodinohsó:ni  knowledge, languages, culture and history. We seek a candidate who holds a PhD (or equivalent) and has an outstanding record of collaborative community partnerships, teaching, and research accomplishments.

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