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 Center has been awarded $1.1 million for two years to catalog Alaska research resources as part of a nine-institution consortium. The funding comes from the National Institutes of Health Center for Research Resources and made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read here... Bill Knowler, CANHR President's Professor, is in the news. According the Oct. 29 online edition of The Lancet, his study showing diet and exercise can keep diabetes at bay for a decade, cutting the risk for the disease by more than a third in the most susceptible people.Read here... Jordan Lewis has been appointed to the National Institutes of Health's Director's Council of Public Representatives, the advisory committee to NIH Director Francis Collins.		EVENTS Brian Trimble, M.D., will give an update on Alaska Native Stroke Registry on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2-3:30 p.m. at 401 IARC. Trimble is the registry's principal investigator and staff neurologist at the Alaska Native Medical Center. For more information call 907-474- 5528 or email Diana Campbell, CANHR communication specialist. JOBS CANHR is looking a biostatistics professor, a prevention trial field research coordinator, programmer analyst, a data entry technician, and field research technicians. To apply for the biostatistics position, click here. To apply for the prevention trial field research coordinator, click here. To apply for the programmer analyst position, click here. To apply for the part-time data technologist position, click here. To apply for the part-time field research technician pool, click here.
	The Elluam Tungiinun research project is featured in the Fall 2009 edition of UAF's Aurora magaine. A Way From Despair After eight suicides in a year and a half, the survivors in one small Alaska village knew they had to do something. more. . .
The latest CANHR newsletter is out. Click here for digital edition. 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...
Interesting link... The ancient tools of the Yup'iks are proof they are true scholars of the arctic. The Yuungnaqpiallerput website showcases their knowledge. 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