Panel Members
Two Panel Indigenous Research Technical Advisory Committee (2PIRTAC)
Sean Hillier
Associate professor and York Research Chair in Indigenous Health Policy & One Health
Faculty of Health
York University
Dr. Sean Hillier is an associate professor & York Research Chair in Indigenous Health Policy & One Health in the Faculty of Health of York University. He is a member of the Qalipu First Nation. Sean sits on the National Interagency Panel on Research Ethics. His collaborative research program spans the topics of aging, living with HIV and other infectious diseases, and antimicrobial resistance, all with a concerted focus on policy affecting health care access for Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
Kelly Bannister
Co-Director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance
Centre for Global Studies
University of Victoria
Kelly Bannister (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.) is Co-director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria. She is an ethnobiologist with an academic background that transverses the natural and social sciences and applied ethics. She has extensive experience in ethics policy analysis and development within Canada and internationally, including serving on the CIHR-Institute for Aboriginal Health’s ethics working group (CIHR-AEWG) to develop the CIHR Guidelines for Health Research Involving Aboriginal People (2007-2010) and the PRE-Technical Advisory Committee on Aboriginal Research (PRE-TACAR) that advised on development of TCPS Chapter 9. Kelly is committed to collaborative approaches to biocultural diversity research, education and policy development that are based in cross-cultural values and relational ethics. She actively pursues ongoing professional training in conflict resolution, intercultural communication, leadership development and somatic education as part of her commitment to ethics as embodied relational praxis. Her particular interest is influencing and evolving ethics policy and practice in ways that prioritize and uphold Indigenous wisdom traditions, rights, and responsibilities regarding stewardship of the natural world and accountability to future generations. Kelly is a fourth-generation Canadian settler of Ukrainian (maternal) and British (paternal) immigrants. She lives with her family in unceded Coast Salish territory of the Pune'luxutth people on the southwest coast of British Columbia.
Keeta Gladue
Manager of Indigenous Research Services
University of Calgary
Keeta Gladue (she/her) is a Cree and Métis scholar committed to advancing ethical, community-engaged Indigenous research. She serves as Manager of the Indigenous Research Support Team in Research Services at the University of Calgary, where she works across institutional leadership, researchers, and communities to strengthen ethical research practices and align with national frameworks including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and ii’ taa’poh’to’p, the University of Calgary's Indigenous Strategy.
Her work focuses on institutional ethics in Indigenous research, including community engagement, Indigenous data governance, and practices towards relational research accountability. Through her role, she supports the development of policies, processes, and guidance that enable responsible conduct of research in complex academic environments.
Her own academic research explores the Indigenization of academic integrity and the ethical implications of artificial intelligence in post-secondary research and learning contexts, with particular attention to questions of authorship, knowledge caretaking, and integrity in evolving digital environments. Keeta joined 2PIRTAC because policy is powerful; Chapter 9 necessitates institutions focus on ethical research conducted with Indigenous Communities rather than extractive research conducted on us. This is the first step of a long journey.
She is dedicated to advancing accountable, equitable, and future-oriented research practices across institutional contexts, grounded in a commitment to ethical relationships and accountability to the communities and knowledge systems that research is intended to serve.
Dr. Robert Henry
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Justice and Wellbeing
Associate Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan
Nominated Principal Investigator, nātawihowin and mamawiikikayaahk Research Networks (SK-NEIHR)
Lead of National Coordinating Centre for NEIHR Networks
Nominated Principal Investigator – Indigenous Engagement Platform for Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM)
Robert Henry is Métis and a citizen of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, from Prince Albert, SK, and holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Justice and Wellbeing. His research focuses primarily on the experiences of Indigenous Peoples engaged in street lifestyles, where he uses a survivance lens to challenge pathologized understandings of their experiences. Much of his research consists of using an Indigenous research framework focused on relational accountability through arts-based research methods. Working with Indigenous ex-gang members and collecting life narratives using visual research methods, he examines how their notions of identity are impacted with their involvement within and across multiple social systems. Through this work he has published two manuscripts with Indigenous gang and ex-gang members – Brighter Days Ahead (2013) and Indigenous Women and Street Gangs: Survivance Narratives (2021), and co-edited four other books on Indigenous health, settler colonialism, and Indigenous sociology. He has published in the areas of Indigenous methodologies, arts-based research, Indigenous criminology, prison cultures, and Métis data sovereignty. Along with Drs. Caroline Tait and Chelsea Gabel, he has developed Métis data principles in relation to the ethical engagement across Métis communities.
Peter Allan ᔫᑕᐃ McKitrick
Community Representative
Peter Allan ᔫᑕᐃ McKitrick grew up in my small northern community of Coral Harbour, Nunavut. His mom is one of the youngest in a large Inuit family and he grew up learning from my uncles and aunts out on the land, camping and hunting. His dad's family is from Thunder Bay, Ontario where he went to high school and later university. He studied Chemistry at first, and then Mathematics for his undergrad and would return to Coral in the summers. Afterwards, he did his master's degree in Education, hoping this field of study would bring work closer to home. He taught the 6th grade for a year in my hometown, before finding other work in Nunavut research regulation. His hobbies include camping, kayaking, playing guitar and bass, as well as woodworking and carpentry.
Penny Moody-Corbett, Ph. D.
Professor
Division of Medical Sciences
Northern Ontario School of Medicine University
Dr. Moody-Corbett trained in Physiology, PhD Medicine, McGill University and post-doctoral scholar, Harvard Medical School and Tufts New England Medical. As an independent investigator, at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), she studied the developmental expression of electrical properties of nerve and skeletal muscle. Over twenty years at MUN her scholarly interests expanded to include research ethics and integrity, health policy, patient-oriented research and social accountability. She served as Associate Dean Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Medicine for eleven years.
Dr. Moody-Corbett has held a number of senior leadership positions including President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience; Chair of the Ethics Committee for the International Union of Physiological Sciences; Chair of the committees responsible for establishing the Newfoundland and Labrador Health Research Ethics Authority (Bill 23); Director of Ethics and Strategy on Patient Oriented Research at the CIHR; and Associate Dean Research and Senior Associate Dean at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM).
At NOSM, Dr. Moody-Corbett helped facilitate community-based research including projects led by or involving Indigenous communities. Dr. Moody-Corbett co-led, with the Director of Indigenous Affairs, the Indigenous Research Gathering, highlighting Indigenous-based research practices and the Pathways to Well-Being workshop to address the topic of suicide in Northern Ontario. Internationally, she was a member of the Training for Health Equity Network and her research included the European Union Recruit and Retain Project, Making It Work.
Dr. Moody-Corbett currently serves as the Chair of the tri-Agencies' Panel on Responsible Conduct of Research and is a member of 2-PIRTAC.
The 2-PIRTAC committee is represented by two members from the PRE (Panel on Research Ethics) and one member from the PRCR (Panel on Responsible Conduct of Research). Penny is the representative from PRCR. The topic of how Indigenous voices are represented is very important to her and she hopes to make a helpful contribution from the RCR community.
Taylor Wilson
PhD candidate, Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems
University of British Columbia
Taylor Wilson (she/they) is an Ojibwe, Cree, and Filipina scholar and a member of Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 territory, with community connections to Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1), Fairford First Nation (Treaty 2), and the Ilocano region of the Philippines. She grew up between Fisher River and Winnipeg and currently lives and works on the traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nation. Taylor is a PhD student in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. Her work focuses on Indigenous food sovereignty, land-based health and wellbeing, onto-epistemology of land, and community-led research and evaluation. She brings knowledge in Indigenous research ethics, relational accountability, data sovereignty, and anti-colonial methodologies, grounded in long-term relationships with Indigenous communities and organizations across central and western Canada. As a member of panel, Taylor is particularly interested in strengthening Chapter 9 of the TCPS and the RCR framework to better reflect Indigenous governance, community-defined ethics, lived research realities, and student, researcher, and institutional accountability. She approaches this work as a learner, listener, and helper, guided by the teachings of her grandparents, mentors, and the lands that continue to shape her responsibilities to community and future generations.
Nancy Wiscutie-Crépeau, Ph. D.
Minwashin
Ojitodan –Anicinabe language protection and revitalization
Scientific Director
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
INRS-UQAT Joint Research Unit Indigenous Studies
Adjunct Professor
Originally from Senneterre in the Abitibi region of Quebec, Nancy Wiscutie-Crépeau is a member of the Lac Simon Anishnabe Nation and serves as Director of Research, Education, and Knowledge Transmission at the Anicinabe organization Minwashin. In this role, she acts as a steward of an approach grounded in respect for Anicinabe knowledge systems, human relationships, and Indigenous and collaborative methodologies across a range of projects, with a commitment to the decolonization of knowledge. The initiatives she leads focus on the revitalization of the Anicinabe language, the reclamation of archival heritage and Anicinabe history, research governance, and the development of educational resources to support the transmission of knowledge to future generations. She served two terms (2017-2020 and 2021-2026) as the Indigenous member of the Human Research Ethics Board (REB) at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT). She was also an Assistant Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) from 2021 to 2026. Since June 2026, she holds an Adjunct Professor status at the School of Indigenous Studies at UQAT.
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