Dr Richard Oster, PhD, is Scientific Director of the Indigenous Wellness Core of Alberta Health Services, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at both the University of Alberta and University of Calgary. Dr Oster is immersed in Indigenous health and his academic research program is specifically related to perinatal health. Dr Oster’s research takes a strengths-based and partnership approach, building specifically on Indigenous ways of knowing and the resilience and strength within communities, as opposed to using a deficit-focused western lens which tends to dominate the field.