Circumpolar Health Metrics Conference
An international conference was organized by the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research on October 31, 2011, featuring international experts from circumpolar countries and regions discussing existing health data sources and how they can be managed and utilized to improve population health and health systems performance.
Participants also toured the future site of the Statistics Canada Regional Data Centre at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Conference themes included:
- metrics, health systems, and health policy
- circumpolar health data sources and applications
The program is presented below:
Sunday, October 30
| 5:30 | Evening Meet and Greet @ 9 Otto Drive (Tel: 766-2808) |
Monday, October 31
| Breakfast @ The Institute for Circumpolar Health Research ICHR, 2nd Floor, 3506 McDonald Drive |
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| 8:00 – 8:20 | Minivan departure from Explorer Hotel |
| 8:20 – 9:30 | Continental breakfast |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Van return to Explorer Hotel |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Morning Session @ The Explorer Hotel |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome and Introduction – Susan Chatwood, Scientific and Executive Director, Institute for Circumpolar Health Research, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Health research and development innovations in remote resource constrained settings: a tropics to polar view – Don de Savigny, Head of the Health Systems Interventions Unit, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Using the Greenland Mortality Database to identify Greenland’s public health priorities – Peter Bjerregaard, Professor of Arctic Medicine, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, and Department of Health, Greenland Government, Nuuk |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Chronic disease surveillance in to northern territories: the power of linked administrative databases – Lisa Lix, Chair in Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 17:00 | Afternoon Session |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | The Alaska Native Tumour Registry as a tool for cancer surveillance and program evaluation - Janet Kelly, Epidemiologist, Alaska Native EpiCentre, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Methodological approaches to studying Inuit health in northern Canada - Paul Peters, Technical Specialist, Health Analysis, Statistics Canada, Ottawa |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Naasautit Project – Dianne Kinnon, Director, Inuit tuttarvingat, National Aboriginal Health Organization, and Martin Lougheed, The Inuit Qaujisarvingat: The Inuit Knowledge Centre |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Coffee Break |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Circumpolar health data: What we know, what we don’t know, what we don’t know we don’t know – Kue Young, Professor and TransCanada Chair in Aboriginal Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Roundtable discussions |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Wine and Cheese Reception and Posters |
| Dinner Session @ Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre | |
| 19:00 | Transcending borders: sharing our knowledge, perspectives and jurisdictions for public health in the North – David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada |
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