Successful PhD course on Arctic Covid-19 perspectives

By Julie Flyger Holflod

With funding from the University of the Arctic, Greenland Centre for Health Research at the Institute of Health & Nature at Ilisimatusarfik and the Centre for Public Health in Greenland (National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark) planned a two-day PhD course focusing on Arctic societal perspectives on Covid-19 and methodological approaches to research in the Arctic.

The course focused on the different experiences of Arctic communities in dealing with the epidemic at different levels, presented different research projects as well as methods, and discussed different options and strategies for cooperation, sharing of resources and knowledge, and involvement of communities across the Arctic regions.

After several years with Covid-19, we have developed a successful hybrid format - but compared to the past two years, most students could attend in person in Nuuk.

Participants came from Greenland, the UK, Denmark, Norway, Canada and Alaska (USA). The course was held in conjunction with the NunaMed 2022 conference in Nuuk. NunaMed is a 3-day conference for researchers and health professionals with an interest in Greenlandic and Arctic health research - and all participants from the course who were in Nuuk also attended NunaMed.

The PhD course is an activity of the UArctic Thematic Network on Health and Wellbeing in the Arctic. For more information about the Thematic Network - contact Gert Mulvad at [email protected]. For more information about activities in Greenland Centre for Health Research - contact [email protected].