Debbie Martin, PhD

Education

• Interdisciplinary PhD, Dalhousie University
• Master of Arts (MA) Health Promotion, Dalhousie University
• Bachelor of Recreation (BRec), Honours (Co-operative), Memorial University of Newfoundland

Cross appointments

• Faculty of Dentistry
• Faculty of Management (School for Resource and Environmental Studies)

Status

Currently accepting new graduate students. Please contact me at the above address.

Affiliations

• Chair, Institute Advisory Board, Canadian Institutes of Health Research — Institute for Indigenous Peoples Health
• Nominated Principal Investigator, Atlantic Indigenous Mentorship Network 
  
• Associate Research Scholar, Healthy Populations Institute
• Nominated Principal Investigator, Wabanaki-Labrador Indigenous Health Research Network

Research Interests

For far too long, Indigenous peoples have been the recipients of research with little to no benefit accruing to them for their involvement in research. My program of research is largely aimed at building capacity for Indigenous peoples and communities to use research as a tool for their benefit, on their terms.

One way my research aims to build capacity for research is through the Atlantic Indigenous Mentorship Network, which has been operating for nearly 5 years, and offers funding and mentorship support for Indigenous students pursuing graduate degrees in health and health-related fields throughout the Atlantic provinces.

I am also the Nominated Principal Investigator of the Wabanaki-Labrador Indigenous Health Research Network, which is one of nine Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research that is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Through a $10.5 million investment from CIHR, our Network launched in 2020 and is aimed at shifting research into the hands of our Indigenous community partners from throughout the Atlantic region by offering both long and short-term funding opportunities for community-led health research.