Dr. Janet Smylie
Well Living House, DLSPH
Dr. Janet Smylie, Co-Principle Investigator, is a family physician and public health researcher. She currently works as a research scientist at St. Michael’s hospital, Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH), where she holds a CIHR Applied Public Health Research Chair in Indigenous Health Knowledge and Information and directs the Well Living House Applied Research Centre for Indigenous Infant, Child and Family Health. Her primary academic appointment is as an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She maintains a part-time clinical practice at Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto. Her research interests are focused in the area of addressing the health inequities that challenge Indigenous infants, children and their families through applied health services research. Dr. Smylie is mother to six children and grandmother to two grandchildren. As a Métis woman, she acknowledges her family, traditional teachers, and ceremonial lodge.