How these Indigenous pharmacists are building trust and confronting health care's legacy of systemic racism

Unreserved49:29Good medicine from two top Indigenous medical professionals

When Jaris Swidrovich entered pharmacy school in 2006, he couldn’t find another Indigenous person in the program — even the entire field.

“I didn’t see myself represented in the profession anywhere. I don’t recall ever seeing a — visibly identifiable anyway — Indigenous pharmacist going into a pharmacy. No other pharmacy professors,” he told Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild.

“I can’t think of a single … textbook or learning material for pharmacy students that was written by Indigenous people.”

At the time, there weren’t any Indigenous pharmacy-related associations in Canada. So last year, the now full-fledged pharmacist