Jennifer Walker is a Haudenosaunee member of Six Nations of the Grand River with a Ph.D. in Community Health Services (Epidemiology). Dr. Walker’s work focuses largely on Indigenous community-engaged research using large health services databases. Her program of research is supported by a Canada Research Chair for Indigenous Health at Laurentian University and through her work as a Core Scientist and Indigenous Health Lead at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Dr. Walker’s primary academic appointment is at Laurentian University within the School of Rural and Northern Health; she also holds professor status at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Walker’s research aims to work with Indigenous populations so that they are able to take ownership and control of their health data in order to use it toward the benefit and wellbeing of their people and communities.