Directeur par intérim

Simon  Brascoupé, (Anishinabeg/ Haudenausanee – Bear Clan) Acting Chief  Executive Officer, National Aboriginal Health Organization is  a  member  of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, Maniwaki, Quebec. Simon Brascoupé is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies  at  Trent  University  in  Peterborough,  Ontario  and  an Adjunct Research  Professor  at  Carleton  University.  He has a B.A. and M.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo, where he is also completing his Ph.D.  He has a strong interest in tradition medicine and traditional knowledge.   He conducts research and writes on cultural competency and safety. He published an article Cultural Safety – Exploring the Applicability of the Concept of Cultural Safety to Aboriginal Health and Community Wellness in the Journal of Aboriginal Health. Oxford University Press released Visions of the Heart, Canadian Aboriginal Issues, in April 2011 that has a chapter by Simon on ‘Rekindling the Fire: Indigenous Knowledge and New Technologies.’

Simon  Brascoupé teaches Aboriginal  health  and  healing  at  Carleton  University and University  of  Manitoba.  Previously Simon Brascoupé was Acting Director, Primary Health Care Division, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada  and Director, Aboriginal Affairs Branch, Environment Canada. He has written and  worked in the field of traditional knowledge and intellectual Property  Rights  and  is  on Trent University’s Ph.D. Indigenous Knowledge Council.   He has been involved internationally on Indigenous environmental issues, particularly the protection of Indigenous knowledge.