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Kristen Jacklin, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
University of Minnesota Medical School
Duluth, Minnesota, United States

My academic career began in Canada at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (2005-2017). I was recruited to the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus in 2017 as a founding investigator and Associate Director of the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team – Health Equity (MK-MDT). Since 2021, I have served as the Executive Director. The MK-MDT addresses brain health equity in older Indigenous and rural populations. As a leader, I am fully committed and deliberate in my actions to equalize the academic landscape for under-represented groups by creating structures, processes, and opportunities to support equity.

I am a medical anthropologist with over 25 years’ experience conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) with Indigenous and rural communities. I conduct multi-site and regional ethnographic research. My research focuses on the intersections of culturally based knowledge systems with western medicine and pathways to health equity for. I pursue scientific questions that support health equity and employ methods that disrupt traditional power relations. My expertise is in CBPR, Indigenous methodologies, two-eyed seeing, qualitative and ethnographic methods and I specialize in highly integrative research designs.

My current focus is on dementia in disparity populations, project examples include: The American Indigenous Cognitive Assessment Project (NIA R01AG074231) seeks to create the first cognitive assessment designed for Indigenous populations in the US; Indigenous Cultural Understandings of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias-Research and Engagement (NIH-NIA R01AG062307) a multi-site community-based ethnographic research concerning Indigenous experiences and knowledge of dementia; and Community Engaged Rural Dementia Research (UMN AIRP) to develop a robust program of dementia research with rural populations. I am the founder and current co-Chair of the International Indigenous Dementia Research Network (IIDRN) and am funded by NIA to host an annual conference for five years aimed at sharing scientific knowledge, building collaborations, and mentoring (1R13AG085939-01).

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