Our Envisioned Future.

  • We believe our first responsibility is to the First Nations communities who utilize our data sets to improve health outcomes of their community members.
  • Community data return and data requests must be serviced promptly and accurately.
  • We are responsible to the communities in which we serve providing sound knowledge and support in all areas of research.
  • We must be ethical in all our work and be respectful of communities’ protocols and processes.
  • We are a credible Research Training Centre easily accessible to all those we serve.
  • Our policies and protocols our founded on the principles of First Nations Cultural knowledge and Traditional Ways of Knowing.
  • We incorporate a Research Ethics Board that informs and guides all research whether by First Nations or by non-First Nations.
  • We act as a data repository for our communities’ data and other data sets entrusted in our systems.
  • We are trusted and respected as Data Stewards by First Nations, with their community data. We provide competent management of their information systems in a just and ethical manner.
  • We are best practice in First Nations community-based participatory research.
  • We are proactive and committed to assisting First Nations communities’ development of protocols and policies in information management.
  • We are engaged and ensure the deeper sciences of research (e.g. bio-sampling) are based on respect for First Nations cultural protocols and are ethical in practice.