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Dr. Alika Lafontaine

Team lead, Indigenous Health Alliance

Dr. Alika Lafontaine, an an Oji-Cree anesthesiologist in northern Alberta, was born and raised in Southern Saskatchewan/Treaty 4 territory. As a team leader within the Indigenous Health Alliance, he competed in and won the 2016 Great Canadian Healthcare Debate, a competition voted on by more than 700 health leaders from across Canada. Lafontaine currently sits on the council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as well as the board of HealthCareCAN and is immediate past-president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada. In April, he was awarded with the Emerging Indigenous Leaders Award from the Public Policy Forum, presented by the Prime Minister of Canada.

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    Opinion

    Close the gap between Indigenous health outcomes and the rest of Canada

    Dr. Alika Lafontaine says years of limited funding and perpetual crises have predictably lowered the expectations for what Indigenous health systems are supposed to deliver.
    Indigenous
    Opinion

    'Side conversations' root of First Nations health tragedy

    Amid chronic failure of health care systems serving First Nations, governments are now referring to First Nation health systems as “broken.”
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