Join us on Wednesday, June 4th as the AVA Webinar Series presents Exploring Intersections Between Adversity, Socioeconomic and Health Inequities Among Indigenous Women and Gender-Diverse People, and the Complexities of Strength and Resilience with Dr. Malcolm King from the University of Saskatchewan.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
12 – 1:30pm MST
This webinar explores the often-overlooked theme of adversity and its connection to violence and injustice. Focusing on Indigenous women and gender-diverse people, it highlights how social, economic, and health inequities intersect with adversity. Strengths-based, resilience-based, and distinctions-based approaches are used to illustrate the complexity of these relationships. Dr. Malcolm King, a First Nation, white-passing, cis-gender male, reflects on his position of privilege and approaches the topic with humility.
About the Speaker
Dr. Malcolm King is a citizen of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Ontario) and a health researcher at the University of Saskatchewan. Prof. King served as Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health from 2009 to 2016, and is currently the Scientific Director of the Saskatchewan Centre for Patient-Oriented Research. His research is aimed at improving wellness and achieving health equity for First Nations, Métis and Inuit through strengths-based approaches that respect self-determination and privilege Indigenous ways of knowing. Honoured with a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2016 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2021.