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/

Climate Change and Waterborne Illness in the Canadian North, March 13th, 2012

The Nunavut Research Institute is inviting to a discussion group on Climate Change and Waterborne Illness in the Canadian North.

This one day event will bring together experts, stakeholders and interested groups in order to exchange information, discuss issues, inspire new ideas, and inform future research. This dialogue is organized in partnership with the IHACC Arctic Team. The discussion will take place on March 13th, 2012 in the Nunavut Research Institute in Iqaluit, Nunavut. For more information, contact Philip Baker at bakerp@uoguelph.ca or Jamal Shirley at jamal.shirley@arcticcollege.ca