Harlan Pruden
Two-Spirit in Health Research: Collecting Data in a Culturally Affirming Way
Biography:
Harlan Pruden (nēhiyo/First Nations Cree Nation), works with and for the Two-Spirit community locally, nationally and internationally. Currently, Harlan is an Indigenous Knowledge Translation Lead at Chee Mamuk, an Indigenous public health program at BC Centre for Disease Control and is also a co-founder of the Two-Spirit Dry Lab, North America’s first research group/lab that exclusively focuses on Two-Spirit people, communities and/or experiences. Harlan is also the Managing Editor of the TwoSpiritJournal.com and an Advisory Member for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Gender and Health. Before relocating to Vancouver in 2015, Harlan was co-founder and a Director of NYC community based organization, the NorthEast Two-Spirit Society and was a President Obama appointee to the US Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) and provided advice, information, and recommendations to the Secretary of Health & Human Services and the White House. (In December 2018, Harlan was (happily) fired or dismissed from PACHA by Mr. Trump via Fedex.)
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this presentation the audience will be able to:
- Explore what and who is Two-Spirit and differences between non-Indigenous understandings, notions and ways such as LGBTQI
- Discuss practical guidance of best practices for doing more respectful, reciprocal, relevant, and responsible (decolonizing) health research
- Receive recently published guidance on how to collect Two-Spirit date in a culturally affirming and sensitive way – “Meet the Methods Series: ‘What and Who is Two-Spirit?’ in Health Research”