As a board member of Ecohealth International and research member of the Canadian Community of Practices in Ecosystem Approaches to Health, and co-founder of the Ecohealth Knowledge to Action Research Group, Dr. Gislason is actively engaged in scholarship that looks at the interconnections between human, animal and ecosystem health. Passionate about social justice, Dr. Gislason focuses her research on the equity dimensions of social-ecological gamers such as climate change and the health impacts of intensive resource extraction on rural, remote, subarctic and Indigenous peoples.