Dr. Julie Bull
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and U of T
Julie Bull is an award-winning Southern Inuk researcher and educator and is a member of NunatuKavut, Labrador, with more than 15 years of experience in community-based research and education with Indigenous communities. She is a Research Methods Specialist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto and a sessional professor in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Toronto. She works with communities, researchers, educators, and policy-makers to implement wise practices involving Indigenous people and is an invited lecturer and speaker at many events throughout Canada and around the world. Julie was the founding director of the Mawi’omi Aboriginal Student Resource Centre at the University of Prince Edward Island and was an expert advisor to the College of the North Atlantic’s development of an Aboriginal Centre on the Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador campus. Among Julie’s many awards and accolades are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Vanier Graduate Scholarship, the Scientific Director’s Award of Excellence from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research -Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health, and the National Aboriginal Role Model Award from the National Aboriginal Health Organization. Julie is active in both academic and grassroots initiatives such as a committee member for education and outreach with the Panel on Responsible Conduct of Research and a member of the NunatuKavut Community Council Research Review Committee. She also volunteers extensively as an international council member with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists.
