Margo Pearce

Margo Pearce is a non-Indigenous person living/working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Səl̓ilwətaɁɬ, Nations. She is a postdoctoral fellow (early career investigator) with the University of British Columbia and BC Centre for Disease Control and an Adjunct Professor at UBC School of Population and Public Health. Since 2005, Margo has been a staff and co-investigator with the Cedar Project - an Indigenous governed cohort study involving young Indigenous people who use drugs in BC. The wealth of Indigenous expertise offered by the Feast Centre would be integral to ensuring this empirical research is relevant and useful to BCCDC and the Cedar Project and improves the wellbeing of First Nations individuals, families, and communities affected by HCV. As a member of NARAC since 2015, Margo will continue to support the work of the AHA Centre as well as the Feast Centre. She will offer the Feast Centre her support based on her background in epidemiology and qualitative research methods, with an ongoing commitment to decolonizing health research.