Dr. Meera Kachroo PhD

Meera Jo Kachroo (PhD, McGill University) is a Professional Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health. She has completed several phases of qualitative research and data collection on First Nations health projects led by Dr. Dosman and Dr. Pahwa. She has worked on co-created qualitative research including a focussed ethnography of experiences, aspirations, and cultural memories of sleep, and a study of on-reserve youth experiences of mental health. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, USask in 2024. 

Meera is an experienced socio-cultural anthropologist, whose doctoral research brought a robust ethnographic focus to a south Indian religious tradition which was previously studied only for its texts and histories. In doing so, it affirmed the role of specific contemporary communities as agents and creators of their tradition, and re-centres emic analytical voices which have been dismissed in academic works on the topic. Dr. Kachroo is also an Adjunct Professor at St. Thomas More College and has extensive experience teaching culture, philosophy, and religion at the University level.

Returning to her hometown of Saskatoon after having worked and studied in Quebec, Europe, and South Asia, Meera is excited to take part in a local research project and enact her commitments to community engagement and Reconciliation in Treaty 6.