Dr. Stephanie Montesanti is a settler Canadian of European descent who is grateful to live and work in amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 Territory in western Canada. She is a Professor and Scientist with the Centre for Healthy Communities in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, and Academic Lead for the Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit’s Learning Health System Team. She is an applied health policy and systems researcher with a strong focus on advancing Indigenous health equity and supporting Indigenous-led health system transformation. Dr. Montesanti’s research applies policy analysis, systems thinking, integrated knowledge translation, transdisciplinary and engaged research approaches for transforming health systems to be better equipped to address the conditions driving health disparities and disease burden among underserved populations in Canada and globally. A significant portion of her work is conducted in partnership with Indigenous communities, organizations, and leaders, with a focus on Indigenous primary health care, culturally grounded models of care, and workforce development. She collaborates with health system leaders, decision-makers, front-line service providers, patients, and communities on research spanning primary health care improvement, mental health service delivery, patient-and-family centred care, and health system responses to domestic and family violence.