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Posted: Jan 29, 2021 10:36 AM CT | Last Updated: January 29 A wildfire rages through the La Ronge, Sask., area in 2015.(Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations) Saskatchewan researchers have been awarded a grant to work toward changing emergency response in First Nations and Métis communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) was named one of the 15 winners of the North American 2020 TD Ready Challenge presented by TD Bank Group. A $650,000 grant from the TD Bank Group will see researchers from the U of S's First Nations and Métis ...

A $650,000 grant from the TD Bank Group will see researchers from the First Nations and Métis Health Research Network (FMHRN) which is based at USask work with partners Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) and Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN–S). 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 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 memb...