Our Health Counts Winnipeg
Our Health Counts (OHC) First Nations and Metis Winnipeg was launched in research partnership with Well Living House, the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg, Inc. (AHWC) and the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba (FNHSSM) in September 2023, and data collection was successfully completed in July 2024.
This is the seventh OHC project site, and the first one to occur outside of Ontario. OHC projects are designed to address critical gaps in high quality, comprehensive and inclusive health data for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit populations living in urban and related homelands. OHC Winnipeg aims to address these gaps by building community-owned and governed Indigenous urban health databases. This work is founded on the principles of Indigenous self-determination, data governance, and management.
Preliminary OHC First Nations and Metis Winnipeg project findings have exposed health inequities and health service access barriers and show that the census undercounts First Nations and Metis populations living in Winnipeg by a factor of 2-3. We advocate for policy and systems change, and resource allocation that appropriately supports population size, that upholds culture, language, and ceremony and that actively reduces inequities in domains such health and healthcare access, housing and homelessness, harm reduction, and family reunification services.
Our Health Counts (OHC) Inuit Winnipeg, was launched in research partnership with Well Living House, the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg, Inc., (AHWC) and Tunngasugit Inuit Resource Centre in March 2024, and data collection was successfully completed in April 2025.
More details coming soon.