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Background

Dr. Renée Monchalin is a public health feminist scholar whose research focuses on culturally safe health service access in Canada, with particular attention to Métis Peoples’ health service access and abortion access for Indigenous communities. Renée holds a Michael Smith Scholar Award, and is the Director of the Fireweed Project, a community-led research initiative that works with Indigenous organizations, service providers, and community members across Canada to better understand barriers to abortion access and to develop practical, culturally safe resources for abortion seekers and providers. Her scholarship is grounded in public health feminist praxis, qualitative and decolonizing methodologies, and community-based participatory research. Renée is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario from the historic Métis community of Sault Ste. Marie. Her family’s relationships to the Great Lakes and surrounding waterways remain an important part of how she understands Métis identity, kinship, and place.

Select publications

Monchalin R, Pérez Piñán AV, Wells M, Paul W, Jubinville D, Law K, Chaffey M, Pruder H, Ross A. (2023). A qualitative study exploring access barriers to abortion services among Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Contraception. 

Monchalin, R., Auger, M., Jones, C., Paul, W., & Loppie, C. (2022). “I would just like to see more acknowledgement, respect and services for the people who are in between, just Métis people”: recommendations by Métis women to improve access to health and social services in Victoria, Canada. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 18(3), 327-334.

Monchalin, R., Smylie, J., Bourgeois, C., & Firestone, M. (2019). “I would prefer to have my health care provided over a cup of tea any day”: recommendations by urban Métis women to improve access to health and social services in Toronto for the Métis community. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 15(3), 217-225.