Janet K. Smylie

Dr. Smylie is Director of the Well Living House (www.welllivinghouse.com) at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations in Canada; and Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Her research is focused on addressing Indigenous health inequities in partnership with Indigenous communities. She has practiced and taught family medicine in diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Metis community contexts for 30 years. A Métis woman, Dr. Smylie acknowledges her family, traditional teachers, and ceremonial lodge.