Executive Director, Aboriginal Women’s Health and Healing Research Group
Rosalin Hanna is the Executive Director of Aboriginal Women’s Health and Healing Research Group (AWHHRG). The AWHHRG is a national network of First Nations, Métis and Inuit women researchers interested in community-based research focused on the health of Aboriginal women, their families and communities and is situated at the University of British Columbia within the College of Health Disciplines. Dr. Hanna is Nlha7kápmx and a member of Lytton First Nation, British Columbia. She completed her Education, Doctoral Degree, Curriculum and Instruction, major Exercise Science, and her Graduate Certificate in Non-Profit Management at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Hanna’s dissertation research topic was the “Attainment of Doctoral Degree for American Indian and Alaska Native Women”. She has also written other papers on Attainment of Education to Advance Aboriginal Leaders (2007), and the Importance of Aboriginal Sport in Canada (2006).
