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Hannah Nelson 

Research Assistant

Areas of interest

Hannah is passionate about Indigenous cultural safety in healthcare, strengthening health system capacity in rural and remote communities, and improving diagnostic acceptability and accessibility.

Education

• BSc with a Combined Major in Science and Minor in Kinesiology, UBC
• MSc in Experimental Medicine, UBC (in-progress)(in-progress) 

Biography

Hannah (she/her) is Liロ妢i��dax妢 from the We Wai Kai Nation on Vancouver Island, with mixed M矇tis and European ancestry. She moved to Vancouver in 2017 to pursue secondary school, and now works and lives as an uninvited guest on the traditional and unceded territories of the x妢m��庛k妢��y����m (Musqueam), Skwxw繳7mesh (Squamish), and S��l��穩lw��ta��优 (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She works on several projects pertaining to infectious disease diagnostics at BC Children���s Hospital, including her thesis research that focuses on validation and implementation of self-collected sample types for respiratory pathogens. Her recent work as a research assistant has focused on barriers and facilitators to community-based molecular diagnostic testing in collaboration with the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA).