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Research Assistant
Samantha Martin-Ferris is an award-winning youth activist and Indigenous researcher from the Gitksan Nation in Northern BC. In 2023, she took home first place at the International UN Worlds Challenge alongside fellow lab mate Piper Scott-Fiddler for her culturally based Indigenous health intervention, ‘the Lifegivers Box’. Her research primarily focuses on Indigenous youths’ rights to good health through measuring quantitative data and advocating for them through community-based health reports. She is currently co-supervised by Dr. Sarah Munro and Dr. Aline Talhouk as a part of UBC’s WACH program. Samantha is currently assisting as lead data analyst with the national Indigenous women two-spirit research priority setting survey on sexual difficulties and genito-pelvic pain as a part of the SHAPE Hub.
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