Wanda Phillips-Beck
Seven Generations Scholar, Anishinaabekwe Scholar and Indigenous Research Chair
Phillips-Beck has worked tirelessly to improve care for Indigenous people for over 30 years, first as a frontline nurse working in remote communities, and then as a researcher and Seven Generations Scholar with First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba. Anishinaabekwe woman from Hollow Water First Nations Territory earned a Master’s of Science degree in qualitative research and in 2021 a PhD in population health research from the University of Manitoba’s Department of Community Health Sciences. She has also spent the last six years studying Indigenous ways of doing research while working with the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba.