Anita Manshadi

Senior Research Manager

Areas of interest

Indigenous health, cultural safety and humility, Indigenous-specific racism, community-based research, health and wellness indicators, enviornmental health, land-based healing, primary and community care, healthy policy, Indigenization and decolonizing frameworks, practices and policies.

Education

• BA in Health and Community Services, University of Victoria
• MPH specializing in Indigenous Peoples Health, University of Victoria

Biography

Anita Manshadi is a settler of colour with Persian ancestral ties who was raised on the Haisla territory and currently resides as an uninvited guest on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən people. Anita is a recent graduate with a Masters of Public Health, specializing in Indigenous Peoples Health from the University of Victoria. Anita has over 6 years of professional experience working with First Nations communities and organizations, most recently at the First Nations Health Authority. With her most recent experience as a  Wellness Research Coordinator, she supported a three-year First Nations-led and community-driven research project titled, "We Walk Together: Exploring Connection to Land, Water and Territory."

Anita brings relationality, open-mindedness, respect, a cultural safety lens, and a collaborative spirit in every path she takes when engaging and working with Indigenous communities, collectives and organizations. 

She is passionate in exploring structural racism, embedding cultural safety and humility in health policies and systems, ecological health, and First Nations health and wellness indicators.