About
Lyana Patrick
Dr Patrick is Dakelh from the Stellat’en First Nation and Acadian/ Scottish. She joined Simon Fraser University in 2019, and is now Assistant Professor and Faculty Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Health Sciences, where her work focuses on the intersection of Indigenous health, planning and justice.
Dr Patrick received her BA and MA from the University of Victoria, where she specialized in Canadian history, film studies and Indigenous Governance. She went on to study Indigenous documentary film at the University of Washington through a Canada/US Fulbright Fellowship.
She received a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to pursue a PhD in the School of Community and Regional Planning where in 2019 she became the first Indigenous PhD graduate. Her doctoral studies brought together research interests in Indigenous community health and well-being and self-determination in urban health governance models. These interests have been informed in part by three years spent completing prerequisites for medical school, several years working in the BC Government in treaty negotiations, and her experiences in community engagement and evaluation of Indigenous health programming.
Dr Patrick incorporates film and other multimedia in her work and is committed to public scholarship as a creative and collaborative process of exploration with Indigenous communities.
Education
Ph.D. in Community and Regional Planning, 2019, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
M.A. in Indigenous Governance, 2004, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
B.A. in History and Creative Writing, 1997, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Awards
Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Service, 2022-2023
Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
CERi Researcher-in-Residence, 2020-2021
Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Not Short on Talent Competition, 2020 (Awarded Film: Train Station)
Telefilm Canada – Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, Vancouver, BC
Indigenous Doctoral Completion Scholarship, 2018-2019
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Irving K. Barber Aboriginal Master’s/Doctoral Student Award, 2015-2018 The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society, Victoria Foundation, Victoria, BC
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF), 2015-2018
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2012-2015
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship, 2011-2015
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Kloshe Tillicum Aboriginal Health Research Award, 2011-2012
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Aboriginal Media Arts Program Grant, 2005-2006
Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON
Canada/US Fulbright Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
Fulbright Canada, Ottawa, ON