Dr. Susan Chatwood, is the Northern Strategy Lead at the University of Alberta, a Professor at the School of Public Health and Scientific Director at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research. Her research interests include circumpolar health systems governance, policy, performance, and the synthesis of knowledge that promotes broader connotations of systems for health and wellness in the Arctic. She has spent most of her career in remote and northern communities, working in the clinical setting, public health and research. Much of her work focuses on capacity building through improving northern-based research and access to education in northern Canada. Susan has longstanding experience supervising and supporting northern and Indigenous learners and working with Indigenous Elders and community groups. She was awarded the McCalla Professorship at the University of Alberta for the integration of research and education. Her contributions to northern research, community engagement, and health systems policy were recognized through the Governor General of Canada’s Polar Medal. Susan’s Arctic network is extensive, she is the Canadian representative to the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), she is an executive member and commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Arctic Health, and was an interdisciplinary scholar in the Fulbright Arctic Initiative. Susan engages through the tri-council agency as a CIHR grant holder, committee chair, reviewer and advisor on program and grant development. She also sat on the NSERC council.