In order to advertise the Burden of Illness (BOI) project in Rigolet, the AngajukKâk (Mayor) of Rigolet made announcements on the Rigolet Community Radio endorsing the IHACC project, outlining the dates of the survey, what information was being collected and by whom. Similarly the Rigolet Community Newsletter helped spread the word of the BOI survey to the people of Rigolet, notifying community members of what was coming to their door and what IHACC's research is accomplishing in their community. A letter was also written to the Rigolet Council to inform the politicians of the IHACC project's activities in their community.
Welcome back Mya
Undergraduate independent study student, Mya Sherman, recently returned from fieldwork in the Peruvian IHACC communities. She worked on developing an ethical framework to guide health research with remote Indigenous peoples.
New Partners
Kate Thomas, Public Health Agency of Canada - much appreciated organisation and PHAC's financial contributions to this project and wisdom regarding our various projects. Nunavut Research Institute – many thanks for hosting Philip in Iqaluit and co-organisation of the discussion on Climate Change and Waterborne Illness in the Canadian North.
Canadian Public Health Association 2012 conference, Creating and Sustaining Healthy Environments. Edmonton, Alberta, June 11-14, 2012
Sherilee Harper will be presenting two posters from the IHACC work in the Arctic: Harper, S.L., V.L. Edge, J. Ford, K. Thomas, S.A. McEwen“Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change: Burden of Self-Reported Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Canadian Inuit.” and Harper, S.L., V.L. Edge, J. Ford, M. Wood, A. Cunsolo Willox, S.A. McEwen. June 2012. “Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change: Climate-Related Health Priorities in Nunatsiavut, Canada.” For more information go to : http://www.cpha.ca/en/conferences/conf2012.aspx
2nd Advances in Health Informatics Conference (2012)- Towards Integrated Diagnostics: Bringing Crucial Information to the Point of Care, Toronto April 25-27 2012
The IHACC iCollect team of University of Guelph, Gabriela M. Henriques, Laura Lamanna, Daniel Kotowski, Hlomani Hlomani, Deborah Stacey and Philip Baker will present "An Ontology-driven Approach to Mobile Data Collection Applications for the Health-Care Industry". For more information on this conference, go to http://www.ahic.nihi.ca/