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.
CANHR News... The latest CANHR newsletter is out. Click here for digital edition. The National Institutes of Health has awarded CANHR a $2.9 million grant to continue prevention research in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta. The research, spurred by the Anchorage Daily News' Pulitzer Prize-winning series "People in Peril," has been well received in Alakanuk. Click here to read their story. Lori Townsend, of APRN, interviewed Bert Boyer for National Native News about his National Institutes of Health- funded research looking at obesity and genetics in Yup'ik Eskimos. He wants to see if subsistence lifestyles protect against problems associated with obesity, as early data suggests. Click here to listen. Jerry spoke with Pete Van Nort, on KIAK FM 102.5 about the Center for Alaska Native Health Research. Click here to listen to the mp3 file. Jerry then headed down the hall to meet up with Charlie O'Toole, of AM 970 KFBX, for a longer chat about what we're doing at the Center! Click here to listen. Diane O'Brien's article "Red blood cell d15N: a novel biomarker of dietary eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid intake," was recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. More...	EVENTS Todd O'Hara is in the YK delta collecting data until the first week of July. Nancy Schoenberg, CANHR President's Professor and professor/researcher with the University of Kentucky, will visit UAF June 22 for 11 days. JOBS CANHR is looking for a fiscal professional and an administrative assistant. To apply for the fiscal professional position, click here. For the administrative assistant, click here.
On the river Gunnar Ebbesson, CANHR.
Top photo: Ayuk, or Labrador tea, is used by Alaska Yup'ik Eskimos as a hot drink or for purification practices. Photo by Jeff Pederson, GI Digital Design Center