About me
Dr. Mashford-Pringle is a member of Timiskaming First Nation, but was born and resides in the Toronto area. She is an Associate Professor at the Social & Behavioural Health Sciences division at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Her research has focused on cultural safety, land-based learning, and social justice. She developed, piloted and evaluated the New Respect Cultural Safety Training Program ((2021) providing over 24 hours of content with specific case studies in social work, education, nursing, public health and medicine. Her research is grounded in First Nations research methodologies based on the Medicine Wheel as a theory, evaluation and policy tool, and a lens for analysis.