The Northern Health Region is looking to serve the needs of the aboriginal population better.

Vice President of Planning and Innovation, Joy Tetlock tells us about their newly formed Aboriginal Health and Human Resources Committee:

"They advise the board of directors on matters affecting the health and human resources of the aboriginal population within our region. The committee’s membership is comprised both of board members and also public citizens. So the public citizens may be from the organization, or stakeholders, or even individual citizens who were identified by the board of directors".

Tetlock says the committee will offer advice to the board, as well as the CEO on initiatives and research that relates to the health status of the aboriginal population.