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UNIVERSITY BASED RESEARCHERS > Dr. John O' Neil
Dr. John O' Neil
 Dr. John O'Neil received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of California (San Francisco-Berkeley) in medical anthropology and is
currently a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at
Simon Fraser University. He was the Founding Director of the Manitoba
First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research in the Department
of Community Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine at the
University of Manitoba. He was also the founding chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Aboriginal People's Health at the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and a CIHR Senior Investigator from 2000 to 2006.
From 1993-1996 he was the Research Advisor to the Health and Social Policy Team for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. He has published over one hundred papers and several monographs on a variety of Aboriginal health issues including self-government and health services, perceptions of environmental health risks, birthing options in remote communities, and health communication. More recently he has led several HIV/AIDS prevention projects in India, China and Afghanistan.
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