Paulette Dahlseide
Congratulations to Paulette Dahlseide, DipDH, MSc, RDH (she/her),
CDHA member and board director from Alberta, on her appointment as
the Network for Canadian Oral Health Research (NCOHR) Indigenous
Peoples’ Health Working Group chair, effective March 1, 2025.
Paulette is a proud Métis woman and citizen of the Métis Nation in
Alberta. Living and working on Treaty 6 territory of the Cree, the
Nakoda Sioux, the Dene, and the Saulteaux, her family names are
Garneau, Lacombe, Lavallee, and Thomas with extensive history and
connection to the Métis homelands of the Red River and into
Northeastern Alberta.
With a Diploma in Dental Hygiene (1994), Bachelor of Science in
Dental Hygiene (2014), and Master of Science in Medical Sciences
(2024) from the University of Alberta, Paulette has been a dental
hygienist for 30 years. Her independent dental hygiene practice, a
storefront and mobile clinic, has been committed to bringing
accessible, preventive oral health care to patients in their
homes, community health centres, schools, and long-term care
facilities since 2010. As a researcher, her work focuses on
community-led, relational, and reciprocal approaches to knowledge
co-creation and translation. She currently works as an assistant
clinical professor in the Mike Petryk School of Dentistry and a
program lead for the Wâpanachakos Indigenous Health Program in the
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta.
NCOHR Working Groups support the strategic goals and priorities of
the network. The mandate of the Indigenous People’s Health Working
Group is to build a foundation for conducting respectful oral
health research with Indigenous communities in Canada.