Indigenous Health / Health Equity
Dr. Roach is a Métis health services researcher specializing in embedding a person- and community-centred paradigm in Indigenous health services and health professional education, aiming to improve health systems safety and cultural congruity for Indigenous persons and their families by understanding the links between health services and medical education. Her research prioritizes enhancing health equity and safety for Indigenous patients accessing health care in Canada through embedding critical Indigenous health and anti-racism education across medical schools to further improve health outcomes. This research program addresses systemic barriers to improving population level healthcare for Indigenous people by targeting research at the health systems, services, and individual levels. She has been developing foundational understandings to the provision of high-quality Indigenous virtual care and patient experience tools; Indigenous-led development of dementia care approaches based on lived experience, and working to redefine professionalism in the context of postgraduate medical education to create systems-level changes.