Pop Up Research-to-Policy Event

The Ontario Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research invites you to a Pop Up Research-to-Policy Event on Thursday November 20, 2025 at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

This Research-to-Policy Forum is an in-person drop-in event at the University of Toronto where research findings from across the CIHR Funded Ontario Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (ON NEIHR) will be presented and discussed with the aim of informing healthy Indigenous mental health policy decisions.

The intended audience is policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and representatives from urban and rural, and reserve First Nations, Metis, and Inuit governments and organizations, as well as municipal, provincial, and federal settler governments.

From 2019 to currently the ON NEIHR has produced hundreds of research results in:

• Land-Based and Planetary Health Solutions;
• Healing from Trauma and Reducing Addictions;
• Indigenous Life Promotion and Complex Crisis Support (for suicide)
• Indigenous Mental Health Knowledges Translation
• Indigenous Homelessness/Houselessness Prevention

Hot and cold beverages will be provided all day, and a light breakfast and lunch.

Info: 20+ research project booths for drop-in knowledge sharing with researchers.
Spirit Wind Drummers in attendance.

Info: Sharing Circle to discuss knowledge translation and policy led by Indigenous Knowledge Keepers and Youth

Host or Publisher Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health