Sophie is a Project Coordinator for the NT-NEIHR and a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health with specializations in bioethics and Indigenous health. Sophie holds a CIHR Patient-Oriented Research Fellowship, and she was the recipient of a 2017-2020 CIHR Doctoral Research Award and a 2018-2019 CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship. She is passionate about community-based research and northern health and has worked over the past seven years on a wide-range of community-led projects with various Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories. She has an MSc in Health Policy and has experience developing and supporting policy initiatives in Ontario, Yellowknife, Whitehorse, and Uganda.