A Mashford-Pringle
Biographic Data
| ID | 32824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Mashford-Pringle |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mashford-Pringle |
| SIGNATURE | MASHFORD-PRINGLE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5623-7053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Piloting an Indigenous cultural safety online program: Baseline and endline survey results from health and social work faculties in Toronto, Canada
Indigenous cultural safety training is imperative for addressing health inequities and improving health and well-being for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis (FNIM) Peoples across Canada. We conducted a mixed-methods pilot study evaluating participants' experiences, perspectives, and knowledge retained from the New Respect Cultural Safety (NRCS) online training program. Participants were recruited from health (i.e., medicine, public health, and nurs…
Indigenous Community Research Partnerships: The Development of an Open-access Training Resource to Promote Community-centered and -driven Research
Indigenous Community Research Partnerships is an open-access online training resource. It supports researchers and others in academic and institutional research settings to engage in learning about ethical and equitable research partnerships that respect and honor Indigenous priorities and benefits in research. Our interdisciplinary team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, with the support and encouragement of community partners, have d…
Co-developing an inclusive interprofessional health workforce minimum data standard for enhanced planning and decision-making: A Canadian case with international relevance
BACKGROUND: Comprehensive and standardized health workforce data are the foundation of more robust planning and evidence-informed decision-making in the face of multiple crises. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the process, results, and lessons learned in co-developing an inclusive, interprofessional health workforce minimum data standard (MDS) for planning. METHODS: A four-phase development process was undertaken: 1) we gathered existing data sta…
Zaagi’idiwin, Mnaadendiwin: Love, respect through the creation of new respect online Indigenous cultural safety program
There have been increasing calls for cultural safety training in recent years, but it is not a new concept. We outline the developmental process used to create an intensive online Indigenous cultural safety training led by Indigenous Peoples. We describe the process and framework developed with the Indigenous Content Committee for creating this online program that includes 24 hours of content, and the final course structure and administration. Th…
Flipping data on its head: Differing conceptualisations of data and the implications for actioning Indigenous data sovereignty principles
Indigenous data sovereignty is of global concern. The power of data through its multitude of uses can cause harm to Indigenous Peoples, communities, organisations and Nations in Canada and globally. Indigenous research principles play a vital role in guiding researchers, scholars and policy makers in their careers and roles. We define data, data sovereignty principles, ways of practicing Indigenous research principles, and recommendations for app…
Nats’eji (healing): Examining patient and provider experiences with hospital-based Indigenous wellness services in Northwest Territories, Canada
The findings extend understandings of hospital-based Indigenous wellness services by surfacing relationships between deeply rooted forces, organizational structures, and Indigenous patients' experiences. Altogether, they suggest that to advance care for Indigenous patients and improve the integration of Indigenous healing practices, a system-wide transformation is necessary, which includes Indigenous governance at the hospital and a recognition o…
Using the Medicine Wheel as theory, conceptual framework, analysis, and evaluation tool in health research
The Medicine Wheel is used in many Indigenous communities across Turtle Island (North America) with many different teachings and symbolisms. The Medicine Wheel is a circle with four equal quadrants representing vast teachings, which are specific to local First Nations, which can used as the conceptual framework as well as theory. Through a rapid narrative review of literature on the Medicine Wheel and associated uses as well as the authors’ Anish…
Indigenous Cultural Safety Training for Applied Health, Social Work, and Education Professionals: A PRISMA Scoping Review
Anti-Indigenous racism is a widespread social problem in health and education systems in English-speaking colonized countries. Cultural safety training (CST) is often promoted as a key strategy to address this problem, yet little evidence exists on how CST is operationalized and evaluated in health and education systems. This scoping review sought to broadly synthesize the academic literature on how CST programs are developed, implemented, and ev…
Designing accountability measures for health professionals: Results from a community-based micro-credential: case study on Indigenous cultural safety
Accountability tools are important to sustain the long-term effects of cultural safety education and prioritize the wellbeing of Indigenous communities. Our experience can provide guidance to health professionals in creating and measuring the efficacy of Indigenous cultural safety education to foster an anti-racist work culture as well as improved health outcomes among Indigenous communities
Appraising Canada's 1979 Indian Health Policy: Informing co‐development of distinctions‐based Indigenous health legislation
Aiming to improve the health of First Nations in 1979, the federal government implemented the Indian Health Policy to strengthen community development and the relationship with First Nations peoples, and nurture a trilateral relationship in the healthcare landscape. The Indian Health Policy remains the foundation for First Nations health policy and program development today, even without ever having an implementation plan. We critically appraise …
Developing an Indigenous cultural safety micro-credential: Initial findings from a training designed for public health professionals in southern Ontario
Cultural safety training is a resource that healthcare institutions and staff can rely on to end anti-Indigenous racism in their organisations and to shift service providers' attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge of Indigenous people. The aim of this study was to understand the initial knowledge and interest about Indigenous Peoples that a southern Ontario public health unit's (PHU) staff hold. A cultural safety micro-credential project was developed…
I Think the Mental Part Is the Biggest Factor”: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Covid-19 and Its Negative Effects on Indigenous Women in Toronto, Canada
This article explores the unique and understudied experiences of Indigenous women living in Toronto, Canada during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to better document the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous women in Toronto, Canada to better understand unmet needs, as well as lay the groundwork for more targeted research and potential interventions based on these needs. Using i…
What do you mean by engagement? – evaluating the use of community engagement in the design and implementation of chronic disease-based interventions for Indigenous populations – scoping review
Many studies have begun to adopt community engagement strategies to better meet the needs of Indigenous Peoples. With the lack of a clear guideline to approach Indigenous-based participatory research, we recommend that researchers focus on 1) building partnerships, 2) obtaining study approval and 3) adapting interventions to the local context
Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada
More than a structure: Exploring the relationship between Indigenous homemaking practices and wholistic wellbeing
Indigenous conceptualizations of home extend beyond the physical and social environments in which a person lives. Home can be conceived as the relationships that connect a person to all that surrounds them including people, plants, animals, insects, and land as well as ancestors, stories, languages, songs, and traditions. These relationships, and the homemaking practices that facilitate them, have direct and significant implications on the health…
Using Ocap and IQ as Frameworks to Address a History of Trauma in Indigenous Health Research
Indigenous people have been studied at great length. To counter deficit-based research that can reinforce stereotypes, the National Aboriginal Health Organization introduced principles of ownership, control, access, and possession (OCAP ® ) to reduce historical trauma to individuals, families, and communities from research and reporting of findings. A further step in promoting culturally safe and responsible research with Indigenous peoples is to…
Early Learning for Aboriginal Children: Past, Present and Future and an Exploration of the Aboriginal Head Start Urban and Northern Communities Program in Ontario
This article provides some key findings from a case study of the Aboriginal Head Start Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) Program in Ontario. Some of the key findings were improved self-reported health status, commitment to cultural and linguistic revitalization, reduced tobacco use, improved knowledge of healthy living practices among Aboriginal children and their families. The number of off-reserve Aboriginal children that can experience A…
Many lenses for planetary health: Seeding citizen engagement for sustainable futures visioning with new ways of seeing
Education in uncertainty: Academic life as Indigenous health scholars during Covid-19
Evaluation of the Aboriginal Relationship and Cultural Competency Courses among a sample of Indigenous Services Canada nurses
In 2015, Cancer Care Ontario launched the Aboriginal Relationship and Cultural Competency (ARCC) courses, which stress the importance for healthcare professionals to understand and apply First Nations, Inuit, and Métis (FNIM) cultural safety to provide effective person-centred care. The courses address a key recommendation from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report, to provide skills-based training in cultural competency, confl…
Moving Systems to Cultural Safety
All Indigenous peoples across the globe have experienced multiple historical colonial aggression and assaults. In Canada and the USA for example, education was used as a tool of oppression for Indigenous peoples through residential school. Child welfare, health and health care, and forced land relocation are also sites of intensive and invasive harms
Moving and Enhancing System Change
All Indigenous peoples across the globe have experienced multiple historical colonial aggression and assaults. In Canada and the USA for example, education was used as a tool of oppression for Indigenous peoples through residential school. Child welfare, health and health care, and forced land relocation are also sites of intensive and invasive harms. Health services continue to be a site of systemic and personal oppression for Indigenous peoples…
A barrier-free health system for Indigenous Communities
The Issue N.1 2018, contains research articles on different topics related to Indigenous peoples' health in Canada and internationally
Welcome to the First Edition from Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health
The Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (WBIIH) is thrilled to produce its first volume of the International Journal of Indigenous Health (IJIH). At the WBIIH, work in research, training, and policy development is grounded in Indigenous knowledges and community partnerships. Indigenous knowledges have been used globally since time immemorial. These knowledge systems evolve and adapt over generations, yet remain consistent in that th…
Death and Dying: Healing and supporting journeys
In this issue, we explore three articles about Indigenous knowledge, ceremonies and experiences about the effects of death and dying on Indigenous people. Articles included describe different point of views on a topic that is considered "taboo", however death and dying affect all of us in different ways. These articles are intended to open space for conversations Indigenous death and dying
Many lenses for planetary health: Seeding citizen engagement for sustainable futures visioning with new ways of seeing
Education in uncertainty: Academic life as Indigenous health scholars during Covid-19
Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada
Appraising Canada's 1979 Indian Health Policy: Informing co‐development of distinctions‐based Indigenous health legislation
Aiming to improve the health of First Nations in 1979, the federal government implemented the Indian Health Policy to strengthen community development and the relationship with First Nations peoples, and nurture a trilateral relationship in the healthcare landscape. The Indian Health Policy remains the foundation for First Nations health policy and program development today, even without ever having an implementation plan. We critically appraise …
Adverse birth outcomes and infant mortality according to registered First Nations status and First Nations community residence across Canada
Supporting Successful Transitions to Post-Secondary Education for Indigenous Students: Lessons from an Institutional Ethnography in Ontario, Canada
This study examines some of the ways institutional policies and practices can support or hinder the successful transition to post-secondary education for Indigenous people. Tracing the path from Indigenous high school student to post-secondary education applicant and utilizing knowledge gained from interviews, focus groups, and online surveys as part of an institutional ethnography approach, we offer recommendations for institutions and applicant…
Aboriginal Knowledge Infusion in Initial Teacher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto
Knowledge of the Aboriginal socio-political history in Canada has historically been excluded from public education. In Ontario, public school children learn about Aboriginal people at specific times in the curriculum. However, teachers frequently only teach the bare essentials about Aboriginal people in Canada because they do not have adequate knowledge or feel that they lack the ability to teach about this subject. The Ontario Institute of Studi…
Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada: Beyond the Social edited by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay, and Charlotte Reading
A barrier-free health system for Indigenous Communities
The Issue N.1 2018, contains research articles on different topics related to Indigenous peoples' health in Canada and internationally
Welcome to the First Edition from Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health
The Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (WBIIH) is thrilled to produce its first volume of the International Journal of Indigenous Health (IJIH). At the WBIIH, work in research, training, and policy development is grounded in Indigenous knowledges and community partnerships. Indigenous knowledges have been used globally since time immemorial. These knowledge systems evolve and adapt over generations, yet remain consistent in that th…
Death and Dying: Healing and supporting journeys
In this issue, we explore three articles about Indigenous knowledge, ceremonies and experiences about the effects of death and dying on Indigenous people. Articles included describe different point of views on a topic that is considered "taboo", however death and dying affect all of us in different ways. These articles are intended to open space for conversations Indigenous death and dying
Adverse birth outcomes and infant mortality according to registered First Nations status and First Nations community residence across Canada
Evaluation of the Aboriginal Relationship and Cultural Competency Courses among a sample of Indigenous Services Canada nurses
In 2015, Cancer Care Ontario launched the Aboriginal Relationship and Cultural Competency (ARCC) courses, which stress the importance for healthcare professionals to understand and apply First Nations, Inuit, and Métis (FNIM) cultural safety to provide effective person-centred care. The courses address a key recommendation from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report, to provide skills-based training in cultural competency, confl…
Moving Systems to Cultural Safety
All Indigenous peoples across the globe have experienced multiple historical colonial aggression and assaults. In Canada and the USA for example, education was used as a tool of oppression for Indigenous peoples through residential school. Child welfare, health and health care, and forced land relocation are also sites of intensive and invasive harms
Moving and Enhancing System Change
All Indigenous peoples across the globe have experienced multiple historical colonial aggression and assaults. In Canada and the USA for example, education was used as a tool of oppression for Indigenous peoples through residential school. Child welfare, health and health care, and forced land relocation are also sites of intensive and invasive harms. Health services continue to be a site of systemic and personal oppression for Indigenous peoples…
More than a structure: Exploring the relationship between Indigenous homemaking practices and wholistic wellbeing
Indigenous conceptualizations of home extend beyond the physical and social environments in which a person lives. Home can be conceived as the relationships that connect a person to all that surrounds them including people, plants, animals, insects, and land as well as ancestors, stories, languages, songs, and traditions. These relationships, and the homemaking practices that facilitate them, have direct and significant implications on the health…
Using Ocap and IQ as Frameworks to Address a History of Trauma in Indigenous Health Research
Indigenous people have been studied at great length. To counter deficit-based research that can reinforce stereotypes, the National Aboriginal Health Organization introduced principles of ownership, control, access, and possession (OCAP ® ) to reduce historical trauma to individuals, families, and communities from research and reporting of findings. A further step in promoting culturally safe and responsible research with Indigenous peoples is to…
Early Learning for Aboriginal Children: Past, Present and Future and an Exploration of the Aboriginal Head Start Urban and Northern Communities Program in Ontario
This article provides some key findings from a case study of the Aboriginal Head Start Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) Program in Ontario. Some of the key findings were improved self-reported health status, commitment to cultural and linguistic revitalization, reduced tobacco use, improved knowledge of healthy living practices among Aboriginal children and their families. The number of off-reserve Aboriginal children that can experience A…
Many lenses for planetary health: Seeding citizen engagement for sustainable futures visioning with new ways of seeing
Education in uncertainty: Academic life as Indigenous health scholars during Covid-19
What do you mean by engagement? – evaluating the use of community engagement in the design and implementation of chronic disease-based interventions for Indigenous populations – scoping review
Many studies have begun to adopt community engagement strategies to better meet the needs of Indigenous Peoples. With the lack of a clear guideline to approach Indigenous-based participatory research, we recommend that researchers focus on 1) building partnerships, 2) obtaining study approval and 3) adapting interventions to the local context
Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada
Developing an Indigenous cultural safety micro-credential: Initial findings from a training designed for public health professionals in southern Ontario
Cultural safety training is a resource that healthcare institutions and staff can rely on to end anti-Indigenous racism in their organisations and to shift service providers' attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge of Indigenous people. The aim of this study was to understand the initial knowledge and interest about Indigenous Peoples that a southern Ontario public health unit's (PHU) staff hold. A cultural safety micro-credential project was developed…
I Think the Mental Part Is the Biggest Factor”: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Covid-19 and Its Negative Effects on Indigenous Women in Toronto, Canada
This article explores the unique and understudied experiences of Indigenous women living in Toronto, Canada during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to better document the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous women in Toronto, Canada to better understand unmet needs, as well as lay the groundwork for more targeted research and potential interventions based on these needs. Using i…
Using the Medicine Wheel as theory, conceptual framework, analysis, and evaluation tool in health research
The Medicine Wheel is used in many Indigenous communities across Turtle Island (North America) with many different teachings and symbolisms. The Medicine Wheel is a circle with four equal quadrants representing vast teachings, which are specific to local First Nations, which can used as the conceptual framework as well as theory. Through a rapid narrative review of literature on the Medicine Wheel and associated uses as well as the authors’ Anish…
Indigenous Cultural Safety Training for Applied Health, Social Work, and Education Professionals: A PRISMA Scoping Review
Anti-Indigenous racism is a widespread social problem in health and education systems in English-speaking colonized countries. Cultural safety training (CST) is often promoted as a key strategy to address this problem, yet little evidence exists on how CST is operationalized and evaluated in health and education systems. This scoping review sought to broadly synthesize the academic literature on how CST programs are developed, implemented, and ev…
Designing accountability measures for health professionals: Results from a community-based micro-credential: case study on Indigenous cultural safety
Accountability tools are important to sustain the long-term effects of cultural safety education and prioritize the wellbeing of Indigenous communities. Our experience can provide guidance to health professionals in creating and measuring the efficacy of Indigenous cultural safety education to foster an anti-racist work culture as well as improved health outcomes among Indigenous communities
Appraising Canada's 1979 Indian Health Policy: Informing co‐development of distinctions‐based Indigenous health legislation
Aiming to improve the health of First Nations in 1979, the federal government implemented the Indian Health Policy to strengthen community development and the relationship with First Nations peoples, and nurture a trilateral relationship in the healthcare landscape. The Indian Health Policy remains the foundation for First Nations health policy and program development today, even without ever having an implementation plan. We critically appraise …
Nats’eji (healing): Examining patient and provider experiences with hospital-based Indigenous wellness services in Northwest Territories, Canada
The findings extend understandings of hospital-based Indigenous wellness services by surfacing relationships between deeply rooted forces, organizational structures, and Indigenous patients' experiences. Altogether, they suggest that to advance care for Indigenous patients and improve the integration of Indigenous healing practices, a system-wide transformation is necessary, which includes Indigenous governance at the hospital and a recognition o…
Zaagi’idiwin, Mnaadendiwin: Love, respect through the creation of new respect online Indigenous cultural safety program
There have been increasing calls for cultural safety training in recent years, but it is not a new concept. We outline the developmental process used to create an intensive online Indigenous cultural safety training led by Indigenous Peoples. We describe the process and framework developed with the Indigenous Content Committee for creating this online program that includes 24 hours of content, and the final course structure and administration. Th…
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