Publishers

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CIRCUMPOLAR HEALTH PUBLISHERS (IACHP)

(in alphabetical order)

 

Danish-Greenlandic Society for Circumpolar Health and the Greenland Institute of Health Research

The Danish-Greenlandic Society for Circumpolar Health is a member of the International Union for Circumpolar Health open to all interested in health in Greenland. The Greenland Institute of Health Research is an umbrella for several health research activities in and about Greenland, notably the Danish-Greenlandic Society for Circumpolar Health, the School of Nursing in Greenland, Government institutions in Greenland and Universities in Denmark. The institute was formally established in 2008; it is located in Nuuk, Greenland. The purpose is to secure the transfer of research based knowledge to the Greenland community by facilitating research cooperation between researchers from Greenland, Denmark and other countries and to contribute to education in Greenland at the pre- and postgraduate level. The researchers affiliated with the institute cover a broad field of topics and methods range from qualitative research to clinical and laboratory research.

Contact person
Gert Mulvad, vice chairman of the board
Greenland Institute of Health Research
Email: gm@peqqik.gl
Website: www.gms.suite.dk

 

Institute for Circumpolar Health Research

The Institute for Circumpolar Health Research is a health research network based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. The network is registered under the NWT societies act and is governed by a board of directors. The network’s vision is to build on the strengths and knowledge of all cultures to achieve health in the territory. The network fosters partnerships for the development of northern health knowledge through research, facilitation and training. The Institute for Circumpolar Health Research supports activities which build sustainable health research infrastructure in the north as well as engage northern partners in health research projects. The network is engaged a broad spectrum of research projects and activities including community based participatory projects, territory wide research projects, surveillance development, knowledge translation, enhancing research capacity in territorial organizations and the training and support of graduate students.

Contact person
Susan Chatwood
Email: Susan.chatwood@ichr.ca
Website: http://www.arctichealth.ca/

International Network for Circumpolar Health Research (INCHR)

The International Network for Circumpolar Health Research is a network of research scientists, trainees and supporters of research, incorporated as a non-profit organization in Toronto, Canada. It includes a volunteer international board of directors, as well as a Network Coordinator responsible for the Networks administration. The INCHR will (1) conduct, sponsor and promote research programs and projects investigating the patterns, determinants and impact of health conditions among circumpolar peoples and the strategies for improving their health; (2) support research training at all levels and increase capacity for circumpolar health research in communities, service delivery agencies and higher educational institutions; (3) facilitate exchange, communication and dissemination of research data; and (4) strengthen the health information system in the circumpolar region. The Network improves health indirectly through the promotion and dissemination of research, the creation of new knowledge and the translation of knowledge into health policies, practices and programs, and the training of a new generation of researchers in circumpolar health. The activities of the network include a full range of research, from laboratory to the community; research is broadly defined and multi-disciplinary in scope. Membership is open to all researchers and users of research.

Contact person
Kue Young, Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Email: kue.young@utoronto.ca
Website: www.inchr.com

International Union of Circumpolar Health (IUCH)

The International Union for Circumpolar Health (IUCH) is an international non-governmental organization, with members, five adhering bodies and affiliates located throughout the circumpolar regions. There has been a long-standing need for the exchange of medical knowledge, as well as the results of recent research and demonstrated solutions to problems for the benefit of humankind. Arctic communities, with the general and specific medical and health problems found in this region, obviously share this need with the rest of the world. The health problems and needs of northern peoples has become the focus of the only organization of its kind dedicated to the health problems of the circumpolar regions — the International Union for Circumpolar Health (http://www.iuch.org/). In 1981, the IUCH was formally established as a unique entity at the 5th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The IUCH is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Alaska. Thus, the IUCH is a multilateral scientific union which strives to contribute to the growing body of scientific medical and public health research data for the circumpolar regions and globally. In order to support its members and affiliates, and the scientific and indigenous communities at large, the IUCH has clearly established working groups that concentrate on specific health problems of importance to circumpolar populations, organizes triennial Congresses, and supports international efforts through the Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) of the Arctic Council, universities, research associations and other groups.

Contact person
Pamela Orr, M.D. President,
International Union for Circumpolar Health
Email: porr@hsc.mb.ca
Website: www.iuch.org

Nordic Society for Arctic Medicine (NSAM)

The Nordiska Sällskapet för Arktisk Medicin (NSAM), or the Nordic Society for Arctic Medicine in english, was registered in Finland on November 22, 2002. The NSAM is an internordic scientific organization.

The missions of the society are to improve and disseminate scientific studies on health problems in circumpolar areas. The organization realizes it missions by organizing scientific meetings and publishing the International Journal of Circumpolar Health. The target populations are health care professionals, physicians and researchers interested in circumpolar health in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The society was originally established to replace the Nordic Council for Arctic Medicine.

Contact person
Tiina Ikäheimo
P.O.Box 5000, 90014 Unversity of Oulu, Finland
Email: tiina.ikaheimo@oulu.fi
Website: http://www.oulu.fi/nsam

 

 

University of Alaska Anchorage
Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies (ICHS)

The MPH in Public Health Practice program at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA)  enhances health in diverse communities across Alaska, the circumpolar north, the nation, and the world.  This is accomplished through excellence in the education of public health practice leaders, scientific investigation of public health issues, and engaging communities in an organized effort to identify, assess, prevent, and mitigate community health challenges.

For more information about this distance-delivered graduate program in public health focused on northern and circumpolar health issues, please see our website at http://health.uaa.alaska.edu/mph/index.htm

We welcome your interest and questions.

Contact person

Rhonda M. Johnson, DrPH, MPH, FNP
Chair, Department of Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Public Health
University of Alaska Anchorage
DPL 404, 3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK 99508-4614
tel:  907-786-6545
fax: 907-786-6572
Email: Rhonda.Johnson@uaa.alaska.edu
Website: http://www.ichs.uaa.alaska.edu/ichs/

University of Manitoba

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University of Oulu

The mission of our university is to advance the education and wellbeing of Northern Finland by being a high level international science university of state-of-the-art research. The Northern and environmental issues comprise the focus areas that encompass the entire university. We study the survival of Man and animals in cold environments where light conditions vary greatly according to time of year. We also study the intellectual and material culture created by Man in different eras, and his influence on the northern environment. The wide scientific base of our university enables us to study the state of nature, its future development and the processes that aid its preservation. Together, medical sciences, technology and natural sciences are able to provide the means to improve the well-being of northern inhabitants, for example. The University of Oulu is co-ordinating the Graduate School of Circumpolar Wellbeing, Health and Adaptation, which includes over 80 students performing research in various disciplines. This school will produce experts of northern health and wellbeing operating in a broad sector of our society. The University is also engaged in establishing an international Masters Program related to circumpolar health and wellbeing. The target population of the university’s activities is the surrounding northern society. The objective is to promote the wellbeing and health of these inhabitants through high quality education and research.

Contact person
Arja Rautio
University of Oulu
Email: arja.rautio@oulu.fi
Website: http://www.oulu.fi/english/

University of Tromsø
The Institute of Community Medicine

The Institute of Community Medicine at the University of Tromsø in Norway is a research and educational institution. The education provided by the institute covers a range of subjects within the collective concept of community medicine. The main activities are centered around the topics of environmental medicine, general and clinical epidemiology and prophylactic medicine. Teaching is often based on research conducted by the scientists at the institute. The different research projects cover wide fields both with regard to topic and methodology; from biostatistical analyses of large population based epidemiological datasets to consultations in family medicine. The projects constitute a collection of comprehensive studies of epidemiology and prevention of most prevalent chronic diseases in Norway, including investigations of how the health care system treats patients with these diseases.

The organization improves health and wellbeing in circumpolar areas through research and educational activities in public health issues. Furthermore, the institute provides basic information about northern living conditions strengthening the knowledge of both health care workers, as well as administrative and legislative bodies.

The target population of the institutes activities are the people living in and dealing with circumpolar and/or comparable surroundings.

Contact person
Jon Øyvind Odland
Email: jon.oyvind.odland@ism.uit.no
Website: http://uit.no/samfmed/4810?Language=en

CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS
(in alphabetical order)

Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk

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The Komi Branch of the Kirov State Medical Academy

The Komi Branch of the Kirov State Medical Academy – a higher educational institution. Established in 1996, the institute is located in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Republic of Komi. The Republic occupies a vast territory in the European North of Russia, circumpolar areas included.

There is one faculty of therapeutics, comprising the following departments: medical biology and chemistry, physiology, two clinical departments and the department of languages and social sciences. All clinical teaching, and most clinical research, takes place in the hospitals.

The mission of the institute is to prepare highly qualified medical specialists to meet the needs of the Republic in doctors, particularly general practitioners, who can provide clinically competent medical care. The institute trains specialists in medicine, thus contributing to solving the problem of the shortage of doctors in the Republic. It also provides development courses for future applicants. Most of the teaching staff carries out clinical and scientific research.

The target population includes all groups of the population of the Republic. As for the research, much attention is being paid to the problems faced by the indigenous population.

Contact person
Evgeny Bojko, Professor, MD, PhD, Deputy Director
The Komi Branch of the Kirov Stute Medical Academy
Syktuvkar, Russia
Email: erbojko@physiol.komisc.ru
Website: http://racem.org/english/parthers/engGMA