Dr. Janet Smylie is a family physician and public health researcher. A Métis woman, Dr. Smylie, acknowledges her family, teachers, and lodge. She currently works as a research scientist in Indigenous health at St. Michael’s hospital, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute where she directs the Well Living House Applied Research Centre (www.welllivinghouse.com ) and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations. Her primary academic appointments are as a Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She maintains a part-time clinical practice with Inner City Health Associates at the Auduzhe Mino Nesewinong clinic. Dr. Smylie has practiced and taught family medicine across diverse Indigenous communities both urban and rural. She is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario, with Métis roots in the prairies. Her applied research program is focused on actively addressing Indigenous health inequities by enhancing Indigenous led, high quality health information systems; disrupting anti-Indigenous racism in health services; and promoting Indigenous community health and wellbeing solutions. Dr. Smylie currently leads multiple research projects in partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities/organizations. She has participated on multiple expert advisories. She was honoured with a National Aboriginal Achievement (Indspire) Award in Health in 2012 and is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada. She is also an international member of the National Academic of Medicine.