School of Kinesiology and Health StudiesCurrent Projects
CIHR Team Grant # DRW-187410: Team Grant: Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness
Nominated Principal Investigator: Lucie Lévesque (Queen’s)
Co-Principal Investigators: Alex M. McComber (KSDPP), Treena Delormier (McGill), Brittany Wenniseri:iostha Jock (McGill), Dave Bergeron (UQAR)
The C2C Team grant builds on our CIHR-funded project (CIHR#PI3-15132) to explore how a community-driven model of T2D prevention transfers from one community to another. Building on the relationships established during our ongoing research, we will continue to work with our community partners to implement and research an innovative Community to Community (C2C) mentoring intervention. Mentorship activities in northern and remote communities are supported by a Lawson Foundation Grant (Child & Youth Diabetes Strategy - GRT 2022-58) to Treena Delormier, Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program.
Research Aim: To test and refine a C2C mentorship middle-range theory that leverages community resilience to provide novel insight into the implementation of Indigenous-led, community-based T2D prevention mobilization.
CIHR Grant # GA7-177785: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps and Priorities – Indigenous Health Research
Nominated Principal Investigator: Lucie Lévesque (Queen’s)
Co-Principal Investigators: Treena Delormier (McGill), Brittany Wenniseri:iostha Jock (McGill)
The overarching aim of the proposed research is to explore the complexities of community mobilization in response to COVID-19 in 4 First Nations Reserves as they navigate the pandemic both within their respective communities and in relation to health systems outside of communities. Research questions include:
What are the drivers and impacts related to community mobilization in the context of COVID-19?
How can community mobilization for an emergency pandemic response be leveraged to address the long term wholistic health consequences of the pandemic?
How have systemic racism, access to care and confidence in science impacted communities’ mobilization response to COVID-19?
CIHR Grant PCS-195131: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support with Institute of Population and Public Health
Nominated Principal Investigator: Lucie Lévesque
Co-Principal Investigator: Leslie Walwyn (American University of Antigua)
Co-investigators: Danielle Walwyn, Kelechi Kemnele, Ian Janssen
CIHR PCS-197304 Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support with Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
Nominated Principal Investigator: Lucie Lévesque
Co-Investigators: Kelechi Kemnele, Mojisola Oluwasanu (University of Ibadan), Folasade Aladesuyi
Funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR)
Nominated Principal Investigator: Treena Delormier (McGill, KSDPP)
Co-Principal Investigators: Lucie Lévesque (Queen’s), Amelia Tekwatonti McGregor (KSDPP), Amélie Blanchet-Garneau (Université de Montréal), Anne-Marie Leclerc (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Annie Pullen Sansfaçon (Université de Montréal), Brittany Wenniserí:iostha Jock (McGill), Dave Bergeron (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Julie Girard (Regroupement des centres d'amitié autochtones du Québec), Julie Rock (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Marie Claude Tremblay (Université Laval)
The Tahatikonhsontóntie’ - The faces yet to come - » Quebec Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (QcNEIHR) is a community-based health research network hosted by the Kahnawà:ke Schools Diabetes Prevention Program (KSDPP) in Kanien’kehá:ka territory of Kahnawà:ke.
Recently completed projects
CIHR - Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps and Priorities - Indigenous Health Research
Nominated Principal Investigator: Karen Yeates (Queen's University)
Co-Principal Investigators: Elaine S. Innes, Elizabeth Brule, Sandra Kioke, Lucie Lévesque, Mary Smith
CIHR P14 - #175354: Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Population and Public Health - Global Health Policy
Nominated Principal Investigator: Lucie Lévesque
Co-Principal Investigators: Kate Storey (University of Alberta) and Leslie Walwyn (American University of Antigua)
CIHR - P13-151327 - Pathways 2 Implementation Grant
Nominated Principal Applicant: Lucie Lévesque (Queen’s University)
Co-Principal Investigators: Treena Delormier (McGill); Alex M. McComber (KSDPP)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Indigenous Research Capacity & Reconciliation - Connection Grant
Co-Principal Investigators: Lucie Lévesque and Treena Delormier (McGill)
CIHR Pathways 3: Implementation Research Team Grant
Nominated Principal Investigator: Jon McGavock, University of Manitoba
Co-Principal Investigators: Lucie Lévesque, Alex M. McComber, Leah Ferguson, Kate E. Storey, Joannie M. Halas, Nancy L. Young
Funded by CIHR Training Grant: Indigenous Mentorship Network Program:
Nominated Principal Applicant: Chanelle Richmond (Western)