Projects by Researcher Name

After two years of grassroots work, CANHR’s Ellen Lopez, along with Freda Williams of Fairbanks Native Association, are establishing a Fairbanks area Alaska Native Cancer Survivor Group for cancer survivors and their loved ones.

The Alaska Native Stroke Registry represented an important project to investigate the prevalence of vascular disease in Alaska, as well as a chance to develop culturally appropriate stroke prevention and intervention programs for Alaska Native populations.

WATCH: Western Alaska Tribal Collaborative for Health: Four NIH-funded research projects, in partnership with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, combined data sets to better characterize the prevalence and incidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Yup’ik and Inupiaq people. This study engaged tribal groups and community representatives to help prioritize community needs and to inform future interventions and research direction.

Despite Alaska Native (AN) peoples having worse alcohol outcomes and a distinct history that has strongly shaped beliefs about alcohol, research has not examined attitudes toward alcohol treatment among AN people who may benefit from intervention.

Many aspects of health are related to diet, but those relationships are hard to detect because diet is difficult to measure accurately.

Arctic Horizons is a multi-institution collaboration that aims to provide the Arctic social science research community an opportunity to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs in the diverse disciplinary and trans-disciplinary currents of social science research in the circumpolar North for the next decade.

Contemporary dynamics of rapid social change have dramatically affected the political, cultural, and economic systems of circumpolar Indigenous people. This study explores community responses to this social transition through life experiences of young people with a shared genealogy and language group.