Robin Roots

Health and Well-being | Rural Health Services | Indigenous Health | Northern Issues | First Nations | Health Equity | Community | Education | Health | Rehabilitation, rural, rural health, health service delivery models, health equity, Indigenous health, health profession education.

After completing her physiotherapy degree at McMaster as part of the Northern Studies Stream, Robin worked as a PT in private practice in Parksville before taking a sole charge position on Northern Vancouver Island for the Mt. Waddington Health region. Following 15 years of rural physiotherapy practice across the province, Robin returned to school to complete a research masters looking at barriers to and facilitators for rural rehabilitation practice which led into laying the foundation for the Northern and Rural Cohort clinical education program. Her teaching and research interests are in rural health service delivery and service- learning models that increase access to rehabilitation services for northern, rural, remote and Indigenous communities.