Lewis, Diana

I am currently working with a team to develop an Indigenous value-based environmental health risk assessment approach (CIHR Project Grant). I work with Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) on a CIHR Team Grant exploring renewable energy opportunities.

Co-Director, A SHARED Future - http://asharedfuture.ca/

Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RObUofPiN8&feature=youtu.be (CIHR Team Grant - Environments and Health: Intersectoral Prevention Research)

GEOG*4230 Environmental Impact Assessment

Refereed Articles

Rotz, S., Rose, J., Masuda, J., Lewis, D., & Castleden, H. (2022). Toward Intersectional and Culturally Relevant Sex and Gender Analysis in Health Research. Social Science & Medicine, 292, 114459.

Sanchez-Pimienta, C., Masuda, J., Doucette, M.B., Lewis, D., Rotz, S., Native Women’s Association of Canada, Tait Neufeld, H., & Castleden, H. (2021). Implementing Indigenous gender-based analysis in research: Principles, practices, and lessons learned. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(21), 11572–. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111572

Walker, C., Doucette, M.B., Rotz, S., Lewis, D., Neufeld, H., Castleden, H. (2021).

            Non-indigenous partner perspectives on Indigenous peoples’ involvement in renewable energy: Exploring reconciliation as relationships of accountability or status quo innocence? Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-04-2020-1916

Lewis, D., Francis, S., Strickland-Francis, K., Castleden, H. & Apostle, R. (2021). If only they had accessed the data: Governmental failure to monitor pulp mill impacts on human health in Pictou Landing First Nation. Social Science and Medicine, 288, 113184. https://DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113184

Lewis, D., Castleden, H., Apostle, R., Francis, S. & Strickland-Francis, K. (2020). Linking land displacement and environmental dispossession to Indigenous health and wellbeing: Culturally relevant place-based interpretative frameworks matter. The Canadian Geographer, 65(1), 66-81. DOI: 10.1111/cag.12656

Lewis, D., Castleden, H., Apostle, R., Pictou Landing Native Women’s Association. (2020). Government fiduciary failure in Indigenous environmental health justice: The case of Pictou Landing First Nation. International Journal of Indigenous Health, Vol. 15(1), 61-72. https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v15i1.34085

Lewis, D., Williams, L., & Jones, R. (2020). A radical revision of the public health response to environmental crisis in a warming world: Contributions of Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous feminist perspectives. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 111(6), 897-900. DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00388-1

Masuda, J., Lewis, D. Poland, B., & Sanchez-Pimienta, C. (2020). Stop ringing the alarm, it is time to get out of the building. Canadian Journal of Public Health Special Issue: Moving on IPCC 1.5°C: Exploring promising public health research, policy, and practice responses to environmental crisis in a warming world. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 111(6), 831-835. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-020-00437-9

Lewis, D., Castleden, H., Francis, S., Strickland, K., Denny, C. & Pictou Landing Native Women’s Group. (2016). Increasing response rates on face-to-face surveys with Indigenous communities in Canada: Lessons from Pictou Landing. Progress in Community Health Partnerships, Vol. 10(2), p. 197-205. DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2016.0021

Anand, S., Shrikant, B., Castleden, H., Davis, D., Desai, D., de Souza R., Kandasamy, S., Lewis, D., Sergeant, A. (2019). “All about us”: Indigenous data analysis workshop capacity building in the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds First Nations Cohort: Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds First Nations Cohort Research Team. Canadian Journal of Cardiology (CJC), Open 1, 282-288. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjco.2019.09.002

Walker, C., Alexander, A., Doucette, M.B., Lewis, D., Tait Neufeld, H., Martin, D., Masuda, J., Stefanelli, R., & Castleden, H. (2019). Are the pens working for justice? News media coverage of renewable energy involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Energy Research and Social Science, 57, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101230

Stefanelli, R.D., Walker, C., Kornelson, D., Lewis, D., Martin, D.H., Masuda, J. Richmond, C., Root, E., Neufeld, T., & Castleden, H. (2018). Renewable energy and energy autonomy: How Indigenous Peoples in Canada are shaping an energy future. Environmental Reviews, 27(1), 95-105. DOI: 10.1139/er-2018-0024

Castleden, H., Bennett, E., Pictou Landing Native Women’s Group, Lewis, D., & Martin, D. (2017). " Put it near the Indians": Indigenous perspectives on pulp mill contaminants in their traditional territories (Pictou Landing First Nation, Canada). Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 11(1), 25-33. DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2017.0004

I am looking for undergraduate/graduate research assistants and post-doctoral fellows to join my team. We are launching a research program to develop an Indigenous value-based environmental health risk assessment approach and I am interested in students who want to or have worked with Indigenous communities. I am happy to chat with you about your research interests if you have strong skills in Indigenous methods, statistics, ArcGIS StoryMaps, or qualitative methods, and strong software skills. The communities I am working with right now are in southern Ontario and northern Alberta. Please feel free to contact me to discuss available projects and funding opportunities.

I am a member of the Indigenous Mentorship Network of Ontario (https://imnp.uwo.ca/) and the Wabanaki-Labrador Indigenous Health Research Network (http://wabanaki-labradornetwork.ca/).