Brenda Cleary

Researcher, Art Therapist and Northern Nurse: mission-driven for health equity, inspired by a vision of healing in divisive times, sustained by a heart of service

Canada

About

Experience

  • RN/Acting Director of Health Programs at Government of Nunavut
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    Managing regional primary healthcare delivery, operations, over site of facilities management and staffing. Assisting policy updates and health research review. December 2024-current

  • Community Health Nurse at Agency
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    Offering complex sexual health, tuberculosis, chronic viral infection, childhood vaccination, home health and COVID support to Inuit communities in Nunavik on contract. Serving anglophone and francophone palliative care patients' end-of-life physical care and offering accompaniment for patient and family psychospiritual needs as well as contractual Medical Surgical, pediatric and ICU care within the Outaouais CISSS on contract. Delivering quality wound, oncology, geriatric and hospice home health nursing CBI Home Health Agency managed clients March 2021- current

  • Pediatric Nursing Research at Centre universitaire de santé McGill | McGill University Health Centre
    May 2019 - Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 8 mos

    Facilitating, via participatory arts, a first-of-it’s-kind child-sourced ethics framework for the care of childhood osteogenesis imperfecta patients as fellow of the Le Réseau de Recherche en Santé Buccodentaire et Osseuse (RSBO) and boursière of the Chang Family Foundation at McGill University Faculty of Medicine at the Shriners Hospital for Children Montreal.

  • Coordinator, Institute for Human Development and Well-being at McGill University
    Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Coordinating daily operations for up and coming research institute of over 50 active International academic members focusing on transdisciplinary perspectives on human development and well-being. Secured funding for creation of 2 new administrative positions, designed and managed think tank and International conference events, funding proposals, promotional materials, and designed graduate student alliance programming.

  • Community Health Researcher at Centre universitaire de santé McGill | McGill University Health Centre
    Sep 2016 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Jan 2017-Nov 2017 Contract: First Nations Information Governance Centre in partnership with McGill University's Department of Transcultural Psychiatry. Collaborated on a comprehensive framework for culturally specific wellness indicators for First Nation Youth programming. May 2017- December 2017 Conservation Consultants Incorporated first author on a nationwide report and tailored policy recommendations for the Pittsburgh municipal government on federal, state, and in-depth municipal case studies on lead, mold and radon hazard policies that support pediatric health. January 2017-April 2018 as RA under Dr Warren Linds and Concordia University’s Indigenous Directions Leadership Group focusing on promoting Indigenous youth well-being through decolonizing education. Further projects included an inter-institutional partnership with the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families “Promoting Art-based Research Methodology with War Affected Youth" Sept 2016-December 2016 Awarded Martha Kate Artist Grant from Boulder County Artists Alliance to pursue independent artistic production authoring poetry and overview of arts based community health promotion career Summer 2025 Consulting on revitalization of Trauma Healing Society Operations. An original project of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation