Bryant, Leslie

Leslie Bryant

Leslie Bryant
MSC, CSEP-CEP

Regional Practice Leader, Research and Indigenous Engagement

Research Department | Interior Health | Community Health and Services Centre

Contact Info

Research Department | Community Health and Services Centre
Interior Health
Kelowna  BC

Tel:  250-469-7070 ext 12790
email:  leslie.bryant@interiorhealth.ca

  • Regional Practice Lead, Research and Indigenous Engagement, Interior Health
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan
  • Indigenous health services and policy research and knowledge translation and exchange
  • Community engagement and capacity building in areas of quality improvement
  • Chronic disease management
  • Indigenous health services
  • Cultural safety

The CLARITY (Community-Led Actions for Resiliency Important Throughout Youth) Research Program
Co-PIs:  Sana Shahram, Katrina Plamondon
Co-Is: Shelly Ben-David, Melissa Feddersen, Deanne Taylor,  Tom Kemp, Jocelyn Lynette, Leslie Bryant
Date: 2018 – 2021
Funded by: KGH Foundation, Blenk Family Fund, Interior Health

Decolonizing and Reorienting Health Systems Towards Health Equity: The xaȼqanaǂ ʔitkiniǂ (Many Ways of Working Together)
Principal Applicant: Bernie Pauly, Sana Shahram
Principal Knowledge User: Christopher Horsethief
Co-applicant: Alex Kent, Hereditary Chief Sophie Pierre
Knowledge User: Leslie Bryant
Date: 2019
Funded by: CIHR $100,000

Building Indigenous Pathways for Diabetes and Obesity Prevention and Management with Urban and Rural Communities in BC
PI: Donna Kurtz
Principal Applicant : Charlotte Jones, Leslie Bryant (collaborator effective July 2019)
Co-applicant : Julianne Barry, Alexandra King, Danielle Wilson, Jonathan Little, Jonathan McGavock, Malcolm King, Mary Ann Murphy, Mary Jung and Peter Hutchinson
Date: 2018
Funded by:  CIHR $849,152

xaȼqanaǂ ʔitkiniǂ (Many Ways of Working Together): Laying the Foundation for a Participatory Action Research Project Plan
Principal Applicant: Bernie Pauly, Sana Shahram
Principal Knowledge User: Christopher Horsethief
Co-applicant: Alex Kent, Hereditary Chief Sophie Pierre
Knowledge User: Leslie Bryant
Date: 2019
Funded by: Vancouver Foundation Convene Grant $19,930

xaȼqanaǂ ʔitkiniǂ (Many Ways of Working Together)
Principal Applicant: Bernie Pauly, Sana Shahram
Principal Knowledge User: Leslie Bryant
Co-applicant: Christopher Horsethief , Alex Kent, Hereditary Chief Sophie Pierre
Date: 2017
Funded by: CIHR $150,000

Embracing a vision for Indigenous Health: Community access to prevention, self-management and integrated diabetes
PI: D. Kurtz
Co-I: L. Bryant MacLean, O. Guerra, P. Hutchinson, C. Jones, M. Jung, J. Nyberg, D. Wilson
Dates: 2015-2016
Funded by: CIHR – Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal Peoples Operating Grant, $99,990

 

Macklin, C. D., Marchand, C., Mitchell, E., Price, R., Mitchell, V., & Bryant, L. (2021). Planting the seeds: Insights for researchers interested in working with Indigenous Peoples. International Journal of Indigenous Health16(1), 1-15. doi: 10.32799/ijih.v16i1.33193 (available here – https://www.proquest.com/docview/2501295100/fulltextPDF/34A9804916B14AD1PQ/1?accountid=14656

 

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