Understanding how Aboriginal children express pain – Dal News

October 19, 2015

Dalhousie School of Nursing Professor Margot Latimer is looking for your vote — but she’s not running for office.

Dr. Latimer and First Nation Health Director Sharon Rudderham head up a groundbreaking community-based Aboriginal health research team which uses knowledge translation tools to promote its research results.

The team’s Aboriginal Children’s Hurt and Healing (ACHH) art project is one of several projects across Canada selected to compete for $35,000 in crowdfunding through Operation Blue Sky and HeroX.

“We could win!” says Dr. Latimer. “But involvement in the competition is about more than the money. It’s about acknowledging to Aboriginal communities that we have heard them, and that this is an important issue.”

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