Alex McComber

Otsehtokon Alex McComber is Bear Clan Kanien’keha:ka from Kahnawake Territory, Qc., a husband, father and grandfather, he has worked for his community since 1976 including director of an alcohol abuse prevention program (1976-1978), teacher and principal with the Kahnawake Survival School (1978-1994); and an over thirty-year association wit the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program where he serves as a community activist and researcher and general consultant. 

Alex was an assistant professor with the McGill Department of Family Medicine from 2019-2026. His areas of expertise include Indigenous health research methods and ethics, Indigenous health promotion, cultural safety, community mobilization, patient participation in health research, community-based participatory research, and diabetes prevention.

His current projects include:

• Co-investigator and Knowledge User - KSDPP Mobilizing Resilience through Community-2-Community Exchange: Seven Generations Thinking for Wellness and Diabetes Prevention
• KSDPP Training Coordinator, Kahnawake, Qc.
• Director of the Indigenous Expertise and Indigenous Patient Advisory Circle, SSA Support Unit Strategy for Patient Oriented Research, Support Unit of the Health Learning Unit, Unité de soutien au système de santé apprenant (SSA)
• Indigenous Advisor for the Institute for Population and Peoples Health, Université de Montréal, Qc.
• Member of the National Circle for Indigenous Medical Education (NCIME) Elders and Knowledge Keepers Circle (EKKC)
• Member of the Cultural Safety and Ethics Working Group, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
• Member, Indigenous Advisory Circle for the Indigenous Health Professions Program, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
• Member, Indigenous Advisory Circle, John Abbott CEGEP, Montreal, Qc.
• Co-investigator with the Tahatikonhsatatie: Quebec Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research, Kahnawake, Qc.