Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth

Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, CCFP, PhD, is a local family doctor with an interest in supportive GP psychotherapy, women’s health, and GBLTQ health. She spent fifteen years before her medical training as a medical anthropologist with expertise in social determinants of health; body image, gender, sexuality and feminist theory; partnerships in health policy development; Indigenous self-determination; disability studies; and interdisciplinary action-based research methods. She’s taught women’s health, written journal articles and published two books, Hard Yakka: Transforming Indigenous Health Policy and Politics (2007) and Women Who Care: Women’s Stories of Health Care and Caring (co-edited in 2010). A third book is to be released by Pottersfield Press in spring 2017,  Much Madness, Divinest Sense: Women Who Care About Mental Heath (also co-edited). Her three children keep her on her toes, her husband teaches her guitar, and she quilts for friends.

Learn more about Dr. Kaplan-Myrth on her website: http://www.drkaplanmyrth.ca/