Dr Heidi Eriksen is an Indigenous Sámi physician and leads the unit of Sámi psychosocial support, Uvjj-Uvjâ-Uvja. Since 2005, she has worked as the Chief Physician at Utsjoki Health Care Centre, in the northernmost municipality in Finland where the Sámi people are the majority. After finishing her PhD in biochemistry in 2010, her interests have been on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples, culturally sensitive mental health care, suicide prevention, and research ethics. Dr Eriksen has served as an elected member of the Sámi Parliament from 2008 to 2011 and has been a member of its Social and Health Board since. She advises on various Sámi health projects and has contributed to suicide prevention initiatives under the Arctic Council. She has lectured on topics such as the health and wellbeing of Sámi people, psychological traumas, with special focus on historical traumas within Indigenous populations, and suicide prevention.