Janelle Brown-Walkus

2022 McCall MacBain Scholar

McGill Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, DMD, Dental Medicine

Education:
University of Toronto (MSc’21)

Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada

While pursuing her undergraduate studies at McGill, Janelle helped run AISES, a campus group for Indigenous students in STEM, and co-coordinated First Nations, Métis, and Inuit youth outreach for the Let’s Talk Science chapter. She also started a non-partisan club for public policy discussions, served on the executive team of the pre-dental student society, and worked as a mentorship program coordinator. Janelle earned a Master of Science in Dentistry degree from the University of Toronto, where she wrote a thesis on First Nations perceptions of quality preventive oral health care in First Nations communities. She worked as a statistical data analyst for the First Nations Information Governance Centre. As a McCall MacBain Scholar, Janelle entered the professional undergraduate dental program (DMD) at McGill.