International Exchanges

INCHR Visiting Fellows – 2004

During 2004 INCHR supported international exchanges involving two of its members:

The INCHR will co-sponsor similar scientific exchanges of scientists or trainees in partnership with circumpolar health research centres and institutes.

1. Dr. Tine Curtis, research scientist at the Centre for Health Research in Greenland, National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, spent the first 6 months of 2004 at the Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments of Université Laval in Québec, Canada. During her stay she participated in the planning of the Inuit Health in Transition Study to be conducted across various Arctic regions. In June, with support from INCHR, she was able to travel to Western Canada and visited the Centre for Aboriginal Health Research and the J.A.Hildes Northern Medical Unit at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and also the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre of the University of Saskatchewan and First Nations University in Regina. The visit offered her an opportunity to discuss research issues with Canadian researchers in Aboriginal health and also observed first-hand living conditions on some Aboriginal communities.

2. Professor Andrew Kozlov of the ArctAn-C Innovative Laboratory and the
International Independent University of Ecological and Political Sciences, Moscow, visited the University of Toronto and University of Manitoba in Canada in December and presented a progress report on his research project in Chukotka (Nutrition and Health of Northern Indigenous Peoples - NUHIP) supported by the International Arctic Science Committee.

The INCHR will co-sponsor similar scientific exchanges of scientists or trainees in partnership with circumpolar health research centres and institutes