The research is led by Dr. Caroline Tait (PhD), a medical anthropologist with expertise in gender and cultural safety in the USask College of Medicine and a member of Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN–S), and Dr. Simon Lambert (PhD), an Indigenous (Māori) researcher in the College of Arts and Science with expertise in Indigenous disaster risk reduction, and a member of the Tūhoe and Ngāti Ruapani tribes from Aotearoa New Zealand. Dr. Tait leads the FMHRN Saskatchewan’s Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) centre, and this team co-leads the national co-ordinating centre for the nine NEIHR networks across Canada, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).