IIPH, IGH and the Canadian Nurses Foundation, in partnership with First Nations Health Authority, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), Research Manitoba, New Brunswick Health Research Foundation, Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation and Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, plan to support Research Chairs in Indigenous Health Nursing. This initiative is expected to:

• Support research and development of knowledge and best and wise practices in the area of Indigenous health nursing;
• Investigate structural factors, including gender, that support and impede Indigenous health nursing and Indigenous health;
• Explore, describe and/or explain Indigenous research paradigms and their theoretical and methodological implications for Indigenous health nursing standards;
• Advance the understanding and conceptualization of Indigenous health nursing and its role in the nursing profession;
• Examine the recruitment and retention of people into the nursing discipline (i.e., practice, education, research and administration) and nurses into the specialty of Indigenous health nursing
• Create opportunities and the will for nurses and trainees to engage in Indigenous health nursing; leadership; and

Provide mentorship and training for students.