Indigenous Harm Reduction (with Andrea Medley)

Presented by Andrea Medley, MPH, this webinar explores explores substance use and harm reduction in Indigenous communities (originally recorded August 28th, 2024.)

Andrea (Jaad ahl’ K_iiganga), is from the Dadens Yahgu laanas Raven Clan, Haida Nation. She is of Haida and mixed white settler ancestry, and was fortunate to grow up in her home community of Old Massett, Haida Gwaii. Andrea joined the Center for Indigenous Health May of 2022 as a Research Associate, after graduating from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Since 2011, she has worked in public health and Indigenous health in several capacities, including public health programming, policy and education. She is passionate about harm reduction, community-led health initiatives, Indigenous cultural safety and reproductive justice, and has worked with Indigenous communities across Turtle Island facilitating conversations about harm reduction, substance use and sexual wellbeing.

This webinar series is hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health's CIRCLE Center of Excellence. To find out more about CIRCLE, visit http://cih.jhu.edu/CIRCLE.

CIRCLE is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under award number P50DA058619. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

Indigenous Harm Reduction = Reducing the Harms of Colonialism:
https://cih.jhu.edu/wp-content/upload...

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introductions
1:28 Presentation