The Benoit lab conducts community engaged and priority driven transdisciplinary Indigenous health research. We focus on Indigenous peoples and specifically Indigenous women with diverse experiences from living with HIV to mental health concerns ranging from stress to substance use with the goal to impact their determinants of health and the systems influencing their health and wellbeing.
Anita C. Benoit, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Department of Health and Society, Scarborough Campus
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, St. George Campus
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Adjunct Scientist, Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital
I am Mi’kmaw and French Acadian with family living in Esgenoopetitj First Nation and Brantville, New Brunswick. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa and my M.Sc. from Dalhousie University, both in Microbiology and Immunology. I obtained a M.Sc. from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in Health Services Research at the University of Toronto while conducting my postdoctoral fellowship at Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital.
Publications
Simon D, Aden M, Greene S, O'Brien-Teengs D, Loutfy M, Benoit AC. The need to change the narrative, to change the context: Urban indigenous women surviving-or-thriving responses to stressors. Wellbeing, Space and Society. 2025 Jun 1;8:100249. doi: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100249
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​Quelch J, Jackson R, Toombs E, Robinson M, Serghides L, Aker A, Gauvin H, Sinoway C, Barkman L, Mushquash C, Gesink D,
Amirault M, Benoit AC. 2023. Evaluating facilitators' experience delivering a stress-reducing intervention for Indigenous women with and without HIV. Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 2023. doi: 10.1155/2023/9219287
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Roher S*, Martin DH, Yu Z, Pride T, Amirault M, Rand JR, Benoit AC. 2024. How Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing is used in Indigenous health research: A scoping review. PLoS One, 19(9): e0310247. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310247
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Simon D, Burns N, Hunter-Porter NR, Lanceleve T, Prefontaine N, Herkimer J, Roan S, Auger J, Benoit AC, Morton Ninomiya M, Morton Ninomiya ME, Bourque Bearskin ML. 2023. Embodied in Indigenous research: How indigeneity, positionality, and relationality contribute to research approaches and understanding. Healthy Populations Journal, 3(1): 30-43. doi: 10.15273/hpj.v3i1.11475
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Lin JC, Toombs E, Sanders C, Sinoway C, Amirault M, Mushquash CJ, Barkman L, Young M, Deschamps M, Gauvin H, Benoit AC. 2023. Looking beyond the individual – the importance of accessing health and cultural services for Indigenous women in Thunder Bay, Ontario. PLOS One, March 1, 2023. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282484
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Aker A, Serghides L, Cotnam C, Jackson R, Robinson M, Gauvin H, Mushquash C, Gesink D, Amirault M, Benoit AC. 2023. The impact of a culturally-grounded community-based stress management intervention on stress biomarker levels and mental health indicators in an Indigenous community. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Jan 18 doi: 10.1007/s10865-023-00391-0​
Contact Information
Department of Health and Society
HL230, Highland Hall
647-601-4566
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, M1C 1A4
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