Allison Crawford, MD, PhD is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, where she led the application to join the UArctic. Allison is a psychiatrist and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada’s largest mental health research hospital, where she is Medical Director of Virtual Mental Health and Psychiatry Outreach. She is also the Chief Medical Officer for 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline (www.988.ca), the national suicide prevention service. A key focus of Allison’s work is improving access and equity in mental health care, including research on digital health. The Psychiatry Partnerships with Northern Communities program at CAMH provides mental health services across Northern Ontario and in Nunavut. Allison has worked as a psychiatrist in Nunavut for over 15 years. She has consulted to the Federal Government in the area of suicide prevention and to Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami on the National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy. She also works with the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group on circumpolar wellness and suicide prevention initiatives, and in 2022 was a Fulbright Research Chair at Johns Hopkins Centre for Indigenous Health. Through her HeART Lab (www.healthequityART.com), which centres health equity through Art, Research, and Technology, she hopes to use the UArctic Chair as an opportunity to engage with researchers, Indigenous knowledge keepers, students and community members in co-designing solutions for community-based, culturally safe and affirming digital health care, and to contribute to A Connected Arctic.