Dr. Jaimy Fischer
Post-doctoral fellow
Public Administration
- Contact:
- jaimy@uvic.ca
- Credentials:
- BA (Geogrpahy, Geomatics, UVic), PhD (Health Sciences, SFU)
About
Dr. Jaimy Fischer is a Michif (Red River Métis) health geographer, educator, and knowledge mobilizer whose community‑engaged research centres on healthy cities, sustainable transportation, and mobility justice. She holds a PhD in Health Sciences from Simon Fraser University and is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria, where she co-leads studies on urban trails as infrastructure for healthy cities, drawing on GIScience, Indigenous methodologies, and implementation science to examine their effects on population health and equity. Her broader orientation is towards exposing the ways colonial structures in urban planning impact Indigenous mobility and access to health-promoting infrastructure, and how Indigenous self-determination can guide the design and delivery of healthy cities initiatives.
Research interests
- sustainable transportation
- moblity equity and justice
- Indigenous methodologies
- Indigenous governance
- Implementation science