Josée Lavallée, BScN, RN, MSc
Director of the Office of Social Accountability in Nursing
Faculty Lecturer, Indigenous Health
680 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2M7
Office: 1926
josee.lavallee [at] mcgill.ca
Josée Lavallée (she/her) is Red River Michif and member of the Manitoba Métis Federation’s Bison Local. She obtained a Baccalauréat en Sciences Infirmières (BScN) from Université de Saint-Boniface. Josée has spent most of her clinical career in community health and advocating for culturally safe, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive nursing practice and education. Josée has a Master of Science in Community Health Sciences (MSc) from the University in Manitoba where she explored the interrelated nature of Red River Métis culture and health. Josée used her thesis as an opportunity to critically examine and challenge how a thesis is expected to be written by Indigenizing her writing to reflect the value of relationality from the knowledge that she gathered and was gifted.
Areas of Interest
- Indigenous well-being and ways of knowing
- Indigenous research methodologies
- Distinctions-based Indigenous approaches
- Anti-racist pedagogy
- Community health