b'HEALTHRaising Community VoicesDr. Alika LafontaineA s past president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), Dr. Alika Lafontaine is well stresses importance ofacquainted with the power of communication collaboration for healththrough media.The year I was CMA president, we had enormous media transformation pickupthe social media impressions I was involved in were like 6.6 billion over that year and I did more than 240 By Rick Garrick interviews, a bunch of op-eds, Lafontaine says. An award-winning anesthesiologist and Mtis citizen, Lafontaine has been involved in Indigenous health advo-cacy for about two decades and has been practicing in Treaty 8 territory and Mtis settlements in Grande Prairie, Alta. for the last 12 years.The first national project I became a part of leading was in 2013-2018 with the Indigenous Health Alliance, Lafontaine says. That was a political movement for health transformation that started with three First Nations inSaskatchewan.12 INDIGENOUS INNOVATORS, ICONS & INFLUENCERS |ISSUE 1, 2023'