WELCOME
Welcome to the Center for Alaska Native Health Research. We embrace a collaborative research model while working with Alaska Native communities, organizations and individuals. At every stage of CANHR research, faculty and staff work with tribal groups and health care agencies to frame research questions, develop methodologies and procedures, and to interpret and apply data to prevention and treatment.
$1.4 million project funds suicide prevention efforts
The Center for Alaska Native Health Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has received $1.4 million to support rural Southwestern Alaska Yup’ik communities in their suicide and substance abuse prevention efforts. Read more here. For more information about the studies, click here.
UAF Chancellor’s Gala to benefit Center for Alaska Native Health Research
The 3rd annual UAF Chancellor’s Gala, Dancing with the Cars, will raise funds for CANHR’s student scholarships and Fairbanks Memorial Hospital’s J. Michael Carroll Cancer Center. The festive event will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, 6:30-11:00 p.m. at the Fountainhead Antique Car Museum.
The tickets are $80 per person.
Suggested dress is 1920-1950 party attire. Here’s a link to help you start planning your outfit.
See you there! Quyana, Chancellor Rogers. For more information and to purchase tickets, go here.
For CANHR past news, click here.
Photo by James Barker
