Media Appearances
Our Team
Principal Investigator
Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle
Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle is an Algonquin woman from Timiskaming First Nation who was born, raised and resides in the Toronto area. She is an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Health Lead and Associate Director at the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mashford-Pringle is the Program Director the Master of Public Health in Indigenous Health (MPH-IH). Angela is the founding editor of the Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health (TIJIH), a graduate student-led journal. Angela has moved toward Indigenous pedagogies and ontologies by using Land as Teacher in her graduate teaching (land-based learning). She is the recipient of the OISE Leaders and Innovators Award (2021) and the University of Toronto Early Career Teaching Award (2022). Her research is with urban and rural Indigenous groups and communities at the intersection of Indigenous health and education including culture, language, land-based learning, climate action, and policy analysis. Angela holds Tri-Council funding for storywork with previously incarcerated Indigenous peoples and Indigenous parents who have experience with child welfare. Her previous work included over a decade at the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada in Indigenous early childhood initiatives.
Research Officer
Sterling Stutz, MPH
Sterling (she/they) is a Research Officer at AMP Lab located in the Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Sterling is a white settler of Ashkenazi Jewish and Irish/English/German ancestry. They were born in Toronto, on Treaty 13 lands, and now split their time between Toronto and Michi Saagiig territory near Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, ON). Sterling has a Master of Public Health in Indigenous Health from DLSPH and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Environmental & Health Studies from Glendon College, York University.
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In their role, Sterling works with Indigenous community partners, other researchers, practicum students, and research assistants to further the work of the AMP Lab. Most of this research is related to Indigenous cultural safety, health policy, land-based learning, and the social determinants of health. Outside of their work with AMP Lab, Sterling is an avid gardener and current DLSPH PhD student whose work looks collective healing and supporting anti-colonial spaces and futures within diaspora Judaism.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Jessica Penney
Jessica Penney (she/her) is a Nunatsiavut Inuk researcher whose family is from Rigolet, Nunatsiavut and Carbonear, NL. She was raised in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and for the last 9 years has lived, studied, and worked between Scotland (University of Glasgow), Labrador, and Nunavut. Jessica’s work focuses on the intersections between Inuit health and wellbeing, the land, water, and ice, and settler colonialism. Jessica is also a Research Associate at Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre and sits on various research review and ethics committees which promote Inuit involvement in research.
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Jessica’s PhD in Sociology from the University of Glasgow focused on the lived experience of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, as well as community health and safety concerns related to traditional food contamination and changing ice and water conditions. She has a strong interest in Inuit research methodologies and ethics, culturally-informed health risk communications, and settler colonialism’s impacts on social determinants of Inuit health. During her Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jessica hopes to continue expanding her research on environmental contaminants amongst young people using creative methods, and she also intends to explore methods for evaluating Inuit health programming and policies.
Research Assistants
Gabriel Tjong
Gabriel Tjong (he/him) is a settler of Chinese ancestry. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences and Global Health at the University of Toronto and is a second-year MPH Indigenous Health student at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Gabriel is a Research Assistant in the AMP Lab and supports Indigenous cultural safety training projects. His research interests include communicable diseases, health equity, and cultural safety.
Epiphany Hunt
Epiphany Hunt (she/her) supports the AMP Lab as a Peer Researcher, focusing on the impacts of incarceration on Indigenous mothers, mother-figures, and two-spirit parents. She is of Red River Métis and Faroese heritage, registered with the Manitoba Métis Federation. During her evenings and weekends, Epiphany is studying with Thompson Rivers University, working towards a Bachelor of Social Work. When weather permits, she can often be found swimming or canoeing in one of Ontario’s many lakes.
Tenzin Butsang
Tenzin Butsang is a doctoral candidate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is a Tibetan settler born on unceded Coast Salish territory. Tenzin’s research examines the multi-dimensional and interconnected notions of settler colonialism, carcerality, parenthood, health, power, and Indigeneity in the lives of previously incarcerated Indigenous mothers, mother-figures, and Two-Spirit parents in the settler state of Canada.
Stephanie Cunningham-Reimann
Stephanie Cunningham-Reimann (she/her) is a settler of Scottish, French and German descent. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology (Bishop's University), Graduate Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization (Bishop's University), current student at Dalla Lana in the Indigenous Health Public Health (MPH). Her work with the AMP lab includes working on child welfare and looking at Master of Public Health with Indigenous Health specializations in Canada and the United States. Her research interests include Climate Change and Indigenous mental health, Indigenous health policies and discrepancies within health care delivery and systems.
Thilaxcy Yohathasan
Thilaxcy Yohathasan is a settler of Tamil ancestry. Thilaxcy obtained a Master of Public Health in Indigenous Health with a specialization Public Health Policy at the University of Toronto. She has also received a Bachelor of Health Studies from York University. Thilaxcy supports research in areas of Indigenous child welfare and early learning and child care.
Emma Rice
Emma is a research assistant at the AMP Lab, involved in projects on cultural safety, Indigenous health policy, and land-based learning. She has received a Master of Public Health degree in Indigenous Health from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Studies from the University of Waterloo. Emma is a settler of Irish, Scottish, English and German ancestry. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, reading, and spending time with her two cats.
Dr. Lynn Henderson
Dr. Lynn Henderson is a settler of British descent living in Guelph with her daughter, three cats and dog Violet. Dr. Henderson is the Veterinary Director of the Kim & Stu Lang Community Healthcare Partnership Program at the University of Guelph where she is responsible for program development and delivery, ensuring student experiential learning, and providing outreach to Indigenous communities in remote regions of Ontario. In 2021, Dr. Henderson completed a Master of Education in Higher Education in the Professions at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and a Collaborative Specialization in Indigenous Health at the University of Toronto. In her role with the AMP Lab, Dr. Henderson is involved in researching and designing Indigenous cultural safety training for health care providers.
Aisha Faruqui
Aisha (she/her) is a settler of South Asian descent and a Master of Public Health candidate specializing in health promotion. She holds a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience and evolutionary biology and ecology from the University of Toronto. Aisha is a practicum student at the AMP Lab with interests in cultural safety, Indigenous food sovereignty, and criminalization and the justice system. Aisha also supports the Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health (TIJIH) through her role as Communications and Peer Review Coordinator. In her free time, she loves camping, birdwatching, cooking, gardening, practicing piano, and playing video games.
Aarti Doshi
Aarti Doshi (she/her) is a settler of South Asian (Indian) ancestry. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University as well as a Bachelor of Commerce in Healthcare Management from Humber College. In her role, Aarti supports knowledge dissemination through manuscript writing. Her research interests broadly center Indigenous mental health, stigma, and cultural safety.
Practicum Students
Jepriya Sayanthan
Jepriya Sayanthan (she/her) is a settler of Tamil descent. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Waterloo and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health in Indigenous Health at the University of Toronto. Jepriya is interested in the interconnectivity of cultural identity and its relationship to Indigenous health. She feels very privileged and excited to join the AMP Lab as a practicum student