| 10:00 – 12:00 |
Morning Session @ The Explorer Hotel |
| 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 |
