Programme

There will be Key Note Speakers, but also great possibilities for all circumpolar colleagues to present their projects and reports. Primary health care is a wide area, and all relevant topics are welcome.

One half day will be issued for the Arctic Human Health Initiative (AHHI) related to the International Polar Year (IPY).

Special meetings in NSAM, IUCH, IJCH Publishers, IJCH Scientific editors will be arranged during the conference. The SDWG and AMAP HHAG will be especially encouraged to participate and present new plans for cooperation and development of work under the Arctic Council umbrella.

The plan is to get together Monday night 12 May; with full scientific program Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday until lunch. For those who have not experienced the Norwegian national day 17 May, this is a unique opportunity.

PDF files:
Program outline INCHR 2008 last update 12th May.pdf

INCHR annual meeting_final agenda.pdf

Social programme.pdf

Program outline INCHR 2008

Monday 12 May
18.00	Nordic Society of Arctic Medicine (NSAM) at Rica Ishavshotel
19.00	Get together reception at Rica Ishavshotel

Tuesday 13 May
08.00	Registration at Teorifagbygget, University of Tromsø
08.30	Opening remarks by conference leader Jon Øyvind Odland and IUCHR leader Kue Young
08.35	Official opening by rector Jarle Aarbakke, University of Tromsø
The Indigenous Day. Co-chairs: Torkjel Sandanger and Kue Young.
08.45	Key Note Speaker Larissa Abrjutina. Indigenous health perspectives, with emphasis on the Russian populations.
09.45	Key Note Speaker Valery P. Chashchin. Results and follow up of the Russian PTS-study 2002-2004.
10.30	Coffee break. Continued registration
10.45	Anne Silviken. Suicide among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway, 1970-1998.
11.00	Tore Sørlie. Sami patients encountering Norwegian psychiatry
11.15	Jens Ivar Nergård . Sami cosmology and psychotic phenomena
11.30	Cecilie Javo. Competence and behaviour problems in a birth cohort of indigenous Sami and Norwegian preadolescents in Arctic Norway. Parent and teacher reports.
11.45	Ketil Lenert Hansen. Ethnic discrimination and bullying in the Sami and Non-Sami populations in Norway: The SAMINOR Study.
12.00	Torkjel Sandanger. Maternal plasma levels of PFCs and PBDEs in women from Naryan Mar and Taimyr, Russia, and Bodø, Norway.
12.15	J. Cowan. Then and Now. Have the rates of birth defects in infants of Inuit mothers of the Eastern Arctic changed since the onset of mandatory folic acid fortification in Canada.
12.30	Lunch. Continued registration
13.30	Key Note Speaker Jens C. Hansen. The "Globesity" Epidemic. Emphasis on Greenland.
14.30	Anna Rita Spein. Existing knowledge about substance use among young indigenous Sami living in Norway.
14.45	E. Alaraudanjoki. Arctic Children`s neuropsychological characteristics, emotion regulation and psycho-social well-being.
15.00	Tove Nystad. Sami Speakers are less satisfied with general practitioners`services.
15.15	Magritt Brustad. Dietary patterns in areas with both Sami and Norwegian populations - the SAMINOR Study.
15.30	Coffee break
15.45	Aileen A. Espiritu. Social capital and civil society: promoting quality of health in the Circumpolar North.
16.00	P. Homøe. Hearing outcome after mobile ear surgery.
16.15	A. Kumar. HIV among Inuit in the Canadian Arctic. Assessing HIV risk and exploring related issues in Nunavut Territory, Canada
16.30	Erik Eik Anda and Anton Kovalenko. a. Initiation, quality control and selected pregnancy outcomes of the Murmansk County Birth Registry (Russia). b. Application of the Murmansk County Birth Registry in the Health Reform of Russia
17.00	Close up of the scientific program
17.30	Rica Ishavshotel: Annual meeting of the INCHR. Chair: Kue Young.
19.00	Rica Ishavshotel: Book release with champagne and tapas snacks!
Board/committee meetings at Rica Ishavshotel:
19.45	International Journal of Circumpolar Health editorial group.
20.45	International Journal of Circumpolar Health, publisher meeting.

Wednesday 14 May
08.30	K. Härkönen. The Network Approach - a tool for better practice in diabetes prevention and management.
08.45	T. Saaristo and Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi. National Type 2 diabetes prevention programme in Finland: FIN-D2D.
09.00	Key Note Speaker Peter Bjerregaard: Inuit Health in Transition; The NuKa study.
Oral presentations. Co-chairs Peter Bjerregaard and Eric Dewailly.
10.00	Émilie Counil. Junk food and its cardiometabolic correlates in Nunavik: a focus on trans-fat and soft drinks.
10.15	Charlotte Jeppesen. Inuit Health in Transition – the diet of young Inuit in Greenland.
10.30	Coffee break
10.45	Annie Ferland. Is higher dairy consumption associated with lower body weight and fewer cardiometabolic disturbances among the Inuit population of Nunavik?
11.00	Michel Lucas. Omega-3 and mental health.
11.15	Inger Dahl-Petersen. Physical activity in Greenland – a methodological perspective.
11.30	Marit Eika Jørgensen. Determinants of fat distribution among Greenland Inuit.
11.45	Marie-Ludivine Chateau-Degat. Metabolic syndrome, diabetes and related conditions in Inuit from the Nunavik.
12.00	Martin Noel. Cardioprotective effect of omega-3 among Nunavik Inuits: Not necessarily attributable to an atherosclerotic attenuating effect.
12.15-13.00	Lunch
13.00	Anni B. S. Nielsen. Contaminant issues in the Greenland population studies.
13.15	Beatriz Valera. Influence of environmental Mercury on cardiovascular risk factors.
13.30	Daniel R. Witte. Inflammatory biomarkers in the aetiology of Type 2 Diabetes: an epidemiological perspective.
13.45	Cecilia Petrine Pedersen. The social epidemiology aspect of Inuit health in transition.
14.00-15.00	Key Note Speaker. Pal Weihe. Contaminated sea food – risks and benefits in the Faroese studies.
15.00	Plenary. Pal Weihe and Pamela Orr, co-chairs.
15.00	Børge Ytterstad. 22 years of injury prevention and safety promotion in Harstad, Norway. Local, circumpolar and global engagements.
15.30	Grace Egeland. International Polar Year Inuit Health Survey for Nunavut.
15.45	Chantelle Richmond. Examining social support among Canadian Inuit.
16.00	Vasiliki Douglas. The Rankin Inlet Birthing Centre: Community midwifery in the Inuit context.
	Coffee, tea fruit and cakes available
15.00-18.00	Break out session for the Canada-Greenland cooperation. Eric Dewailly and Peter Bjerregaard, co-chairs. Room 1323, 3. floor.
16.15-18.15	Plenary. The International Polar Year
	Welcome Introductions (Pam Orr; Alan Parkinson) Overview and Updates Arctic Human Health Initiative – (Alan Parkinson) Network updates Circumpolar Human Health Human Advisory Network; Updates from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (Karen Perdue, Harald Finkler) International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) (Alan Parkinson) International Network of Circumpolar Health Researchers (Kue Young) Arctic Health Research Network (Gwen Healey) Research updates Study of indigenous health in the Russian North: contribution of ArctAn Lab to the IPY (A. Kozlov) The burden of infectious diseases in Greenland-means of evaluation and reduction (Anders Koch) Does exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) increase the risk of breast cancer? Focus on the Arctic women (Eva C. Bonefeld-Jørgensen ) Women's reproductive behaviour in northern regions of the Russian Federation (G.Vershubsky, A.Kozlov) Sexual health and sexually transmitted infections in northern frontier populations, and updates from Alaska meeting ( Dionne Gesink Law, Rhonda Johnson, Audrey Steenbeek, Alan Parkinson) Outreach, Education & Communication International Symposium Climate Change & Impacts on Human Health in the Arctic Anchorage Alaska February 13-15, 2008 (Alan Parkinson)
Rica Ishavshotel:
19.00	International Union of Circumpolar Health (IUCH)

Thursday 15 May
08.30	Key Note Speaker Eva B. Jørgensen. The actual bioactivity of xenobiotic mixtures in human serum and its potential relation to health effects.
09.30	Plenary. Co-chairs Juhani Hassi and Arja Rautio.
09.30	Tiina Mäkinen. Body composition and its changes in Finnish young men during military service.
09.45	Juhani Hassi. Cardiovascular cold symptoms in persons having Type 2 diabetes or self-reported impaired glucose tolerance.
10.00	Kåre Edvardsen. UV-radiation, Vitamin D and Health in Polar Regions.
10.15	Amy Pronovost. Vitamin D and bone health in Inuit women 40 years of age and older.
09.30-12.30	Break out session about Canada-Greenland cooperation, continued. Eric Dewailly and Peter Bjerregaard, co-chairs. Room 1323, 3.floor.
10.30	Coffee break
10.45	Anna Kozlovskaya. Secular trend in secondary sex ratio in the Russian Arctic: a study on 26 000 birth in Vorkuta, Komi Republic.
11.00	T. Sovershaev. Teenagers' awareness in healthy lifestyle questions in the Arkhangelsk Region.
11.15	E. Sidorova. Psychological adaptation of Indian students to the European North.
11.30	F. Ishekov. Adaptation of the cardiorespiratory system during fifteen days of normobaric hypoxytherapy course.
11.45	Anna Iakovleva. Acute myocardial infarction in young patients in the European North of Russia.
12.00	N. Grozina. Intravenous access in newborn infants for infusion therapy used in the Archangelsk regional children`s hospital.
12.15	Magnus Evander. Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Northern Sweden.
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Poster presentations. Co-chairs Valery Chaschin and Jon Øyvind Odland.
Presenters:	Solrunn Hansen and Anna Sofia Veyhe. The North Norwegian birth cohort. Natalia Petrenya. Sea food and cardio-vascular disease in Arkhangelsk County. Trine Kvitberg. Arctic People`s adaptation to contaminant problems and climate change. M. Melhus et al.. The SAMINOR study. Description of the study sample. C. Fletcher et al.. Plants for Life! A community – university collaboration on Sahtuot`ine health and healing. O. Boucher et al.. Contribution if in utero exposure, breast feeding duration and traditional food consumption to environmental contaminant and nutrient body burden in 10-year-old Inuit children. Ariane Dubé Linteau et al. Gene-environment interactions and Inuit's health in Nunavik. Sylvie Dodin. Indigenous women"s health. Leon M. McClusky. Male reproductive organs and cadmium accumulation: insights from a shark testis model. M. Long et al.. AhR transcriptional activity in serum of Inuits across Greenlandic districts. Lena Nilsson. Consumption of filtered and boiled coffee and sex-specific risk for acute myocardial infarction in Northern Sweden. Cibele Rudge. Correlations between metal levels in maternal and cord blood among delivering women and their outcomes in South Africa. Amanda J. Ritchie. A study design to explore the determinants of breast cancer survival in First Nations women. Ragnhild Kalstad. Center for Sami Health Research. A presentation. Ahmed Sheikh Mashhood. A study on students on the basis of their levels of anxiety, depression and homesickness and its effect on their study progress. E. Romanova and F. Rudmin. Acculturation of Russian speaking immigrants in Norway.
14.30	Key Note Speaker Eric Dewailly. Contaminants and chronic disease – is there a link?
15.30	Coffee break
15.45	Oral presentations. Co-chairs Arja Rautio and Juhani Hassi.
15.45	Evgeny Bojko. Modern nutritional style and micronutrients content in population inhabited in Russian European North.
16.00	Natalya Potolitsyna. Thiamine status of inhabitants of the Russian European North.
16.15	Svetlana Bojko. Hearing problems in northern inhabitants based on serum lipid metabolism abnormalities.
16.30	Olga Parshukova. Selenium and thyroid function in healthy humans in the European North of Russia.
16.45	N.A. Vakhnina. Seasonal oxidative stress in healthy humans in the European North of Russia.
17.00	Close up for the day
17.30	Rica Ishavshotel: Arctic Human Health Initiative Steering Committee meeting
19.00	Bus to Fjellheisen from Rica Ishavshotel: Get together in the hotel reception for the official conference dinner at 20 o’clock at Fjellheisen

Friday 16 May
08.30	Key Note Speaker Arja Rautio. Human health and wellbeing in the climate change context.
09.30	Oral presentations. Chairs Jon Øyvind Odland and Aleksey Dudarev
09.30	Irina Dardynskaia. Exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds and reproductive outcomes.
10.00	Anita Iversen. Parity, age at first birth and estradiol levels among women aged 25-35 years in Northern Norway. The EBBA-I study.
10.15	Jody Walker. The Arctic Health Research Network – Yukon.
10.30	Coffee break
10.45	Halina Røllin. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme – North-South collaboration. Results of the pilot study in South Africa.
11.15	Key Note Speaker Kue Young. Establishing A Circumpolar Health Observatory.
11.45	Closing remarks by the scientific committee: Jon Øyvind Odland, Juhani Hassi and Kue Young.