Donna Kurtz, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Development Dr. Kurtz is Métis. She is a nurse educator and qualitative researcher. She uses decolonizing approaches of Indigenous led community based Indigenous methodologies in health promotion, Indigenous wellness and health system policy change for chronic disease prevention that benefits Indigenous peoples and communities. She has led multi-sector university-Aboriginal community education and research teams in the development of university level health science cultural safety curriculum development and delivery; urban Aboriginal health care access and delivery, Aboriginal nursing student recruitment and retention, to foster respectful non-racist, non-discriminatory health care provision and policy change. She currently holds a CIHR Institute of Aboriginal Health grant for urban integration of traditional healing for Primary Health Care in diabetes/obesity services. Her work is mainly focused in Western Canada and expanding research and education collaboration with Australia (Federation University Mt. Helen) and New Zealand (Whakauae Research Services). She is actively involved with the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada Research Sub-committee and is the International co-chair of the International Network of Indigenous Health Promotion Professionals.