Biography

Ben Geboe, LMSW PhD, tiospaye wakankdiduta (family unit Redlightning) is an enrolled member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota which has affiliations in the Dakota First Nations of Manitoba. Ben has several years of experience working with Indigenous community organizations in Canada and the United States focusing on identifying barriers to Indigenous health services and advocates for Indigenous participation in all levels of healthcare services. Since 2021, he has been a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University working with Inuit communities in Nunavik to improve tuberculosis care through reconciliation and decolonization informed community-based participatory research.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Inuit experiences and expertise on the 21st century TB epidemic in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada: A qualitative community-based participatory study

Nunavimmiut called for shifting from program-centered to person-centered and community-driven tuberculosis care, which will necessitate increasing resources and entrenching Inuit agency over services through reconciliation- and decolonization-aligned policy changes.

Source: Conference 2024