Master’s program in the Health and Well-being in the Circumpolar Area (led by UOulu and endorsed by UArctic) was a joint international effort to establish a long-lasting education program. It was running from 2005 to 2017, and there were graduated altogether 20 Masters, and two of those have also finished their PhD studies.
In January-February of 2018, the TN Health in the Arctic circulated the questionnaire to its members with the aim of identifying the involvement and developmental prospects. We have updated the research and educational activities to which the members were involved and profiled their interests for the future ones. Total of 32 respondents, it was found out that two thirds of members are actively involved on several levels: (1) Leading the network, (2) Organizing and co-teaching PhD courses, (3) Cooperating in joint projects concerning environmental and human health and presented at the UArctic and ICCH congresses, (4) Learning and receiving mobility grants to participate at the summer schools for students. Several population groups have found to be most addressed in the studies such as women and children, elderly people, Indigenous people, as well as other priority research lines in environmental health, health care system and multidisciplinary research. The important food for thoughts was to point out the need for anchor projects to work on together and apply for joint grants and funding for the further courses.
Completed activities in research and education:
- Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and Other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learnt Special Issue of Arctic Yearbook, 2022-2023.
- CLINF-GREEN project March 2022 - March 2024.
- The PhD course "Arctic community perspectives on COVID-19: Collaboration, methodology and lessons learned 28-29 Sep 2022 in Nuuk in connection with NUNAMED 2022
- Coordination and participation in the networking and research ongoing project "Indigenous and non-indigenous residents of the Nordic-Russian region: Best practices for equity in healthy ageing (NORRUS-AGE)", Oct 2020 - May 2022. Final workshop in Mar 2022.
- PhD course "New Technology and Community Perspectives in Arctic Health Research" on 13-15 Nov 2021 in Nuuk and online.
- ICASS X, June 15-20, 2021, Arkhangelsk, Russia, online
- UArctic Congress 2021, May 15-18, 2021, Reykjavík, Iceland, online
- ASSW21 panel on One Health, March 25, 2021, Lisbon, Portugal, online
- PhD course in Nuuk, Greenland, October 31 - November 2, 2020, University of Nuuk
- Summer School in Arctic Health, August 10-21, 2020, University of Copenhagen
- One Health - One Future conference, March 11-14, 2020, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks
- DWG AHHEG, Finnish co-chairmanship 2017-2019
- Nunamed X – Movement in Health, October 5-7, 2019, Nuuk, Greenland.
- PhD Course in conjunction with Nunamed X:"Community based health research – methods and strategies", October 2-7, 2019, Nuuk, Greenland
- One Arctic – One Health Conference 2019,07-09 February, Oulu, Finland
- ICCH17, 12-15 August 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Summer course in Arctic Health, 12-15 August 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark
- PhD course, 26-30 June 2018, Nuuk, Greenland
- Summer School on Arctic Health, August 2017 at the University of Copenhagen
- Participated in the organization of ICASS IX, June, 2017, Umeå, Sweden. Theme on Health & Well-being.
- Organised of a PhD course in connection with the ICASS IX, June 2017, Umeå, Sweden
- Collaborative Arctic Summer School in Epidemiology (CASE), June 2017, Arkhangelsk, Russia
- Master's program in Health and Well-being in the Circumpolar Area, 2009-2017, at the University of Oulu.
