KD King, BScN, MPH, RN, CPSO

Area of Study / Keywords

Sexual Health Indigenous Health Mental Health Public Health Nursing

About

Born and raised in northern Alberta, I grew up on a farm, my father was a farmer, and my mother a nurse. I moved to Edmonton for University and completed my BScN in Nursing at the UofA in 2004. I subsequently worked for a year as a Registered Nurse in a few areas, including Plastic Surgery, Mental Health, and Neurosurgery, before moving to Perth, Western Australia to commence my Masters of Public Health (MPH). I moved back to Canada in 2006 to work in mental health and addictions in Toronto for three years, before relocating to London, UK, where I conducted my thesis research on HIV testing in acute and community psychiatric mental health and addictions settings. After 6 years in the UK, I returned to Canada and worked with Alberta Health Services doing Health Service Quality and Accreditation work, before joining the Faculty of Nursing in 2017 as a Faculty Lecturer. In 2019 I became an Assistant Teaching Professor, and in 2020 took and educational leave to complete my PhD research looking at HPV-related cancer prevention in Métis communities in Alberta. As a proud two-spirit Métis, my research seeks to center the voices of the people involved and develop strategies to improve outcomes related to HPV in our Nation.

NS 376 - Indigenous Demography and Disease

This course focuses on the historic epidemic diseases that devastated Indigenous communities following the arrival of Europeans in this hemisphere. Students will study evidence for health and disease and for the size of the Indigenous population before contact, the epidemiology and impacts of infectious diseases that accompanied Europeans to the Americas, and the transition to a different disease profile in the 20th century. Indigenous and European approaches to well-being and disease will be considered. Prerequisites: NS 110, 111 and 240 or 290 or consent of the Faculty.

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