Greenland center for health research
About
Greenland Center for Health Research (GCHR) at the Institute of Health & Nature was inaugurated at a meeting of the Greenland Medical Society in Nuuk in October 2008.
Objectives
The purpose of the center is to strengthen cooperation between researchers from other countries and health professionals in Greenland, to promote research collaboration within Greenland, and to facilitate interaction between researchers from other countries and Greenlandic society. The center is active in teaching at all levels, from classroom teaching of nursing students to supervision of PhD students. In the longer run, Greenland Center for Health Research will work to establish a data archive and archive of samples collected in Greenland.
Vision
The center's vision is to improve health in Greenland by initiating and coordinating health research.
Mission
Strengthen coordination between research institutions.
Develop, exchange, disseminate, and apply scientific knowledge.
Establish national and international network.
Build local capacity through mentoring schemes and PhD programmes.
Improve engagement with the local community and local partnerships.
Advisory board
Gert Mulvad, MD, Dr. h.c. (Chairman)
Lone Nukaaraq Møller, Head of institute - Institute of Health & Nature (Vice chairman)
Ella Skifte, Chief Nurse - Board of Health and Prevention
Paneeraq Noahsen, Chief Medical Officer
Aka F. Olesen, Head of Department for Health
Kunuk Holm, Research Coordinator at Department of Research
Lene Seibæk, Professor - Institute of Health and Nature
Appointed: Michael L. Pedersen, MD, GP, PhD, Dr. Med. - Greenland Centre for Health Research
Download overview of our research & activities (also download overview of researchers and PhD students affiliated with the centre)
Researchers
The center's researchers
Fulltime
- Aviaaja Hauptmann
- Christine Ingemann
- Gert Mulvad
- Ingelise Olesen
- Lene Seibæk
- Morten Meldgaard
- Tine Aagaard
Associated
- Anders Koch
- Bibi Hølge
- Christina VL Larsen
- Carsten Juul Larsen
- Eva Bonefeld
- Marit E Jørgensen
- Michael L Pedersen
- Preben Homøe
- Stig Andersen
- Stine Byberg
- Tenna Jensen
- Ulla Wewer
Affiliated
- Birgit Niclasen
- Jørgen Bjerggaard Jensen
- Karsten Rex
- Maria Lurenda Westergaard
- Nick Duelund
- Rebecca R Berg
- Ruth Montgomery Andersen
- Umbreen Yousaf
Partnership & network
Greenland Center for Health Research works to establish connections between research centers, independent researchers, students, and healthcare professionals in Greenland and internationally. The center is organized by University of Greenland, Institute of Health & Nature. We have collaborated with the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources on the construction of the new building, Pikialaarfik. The center has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian Institute of Circumpolar Health in Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) and UArctic.
The center cooperates with:
Center for Care Research at UIT The Arctic University of Norway.
Arctic Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network.
University of Southern Denmark on the professional master's program in nursing.
Zealand University Hospital on capacity building in the Greenlandic healthcare system.
Furthermore, Greenland Centre for Health Research is co-organizer of the NUNAMED conference, part of the thematic network on health and well-being in the Arctic under University of the Arctic, including the Nordic Nursing Education Network, and a member of the Circumpolar Health Research Network.
If you would like to join our network of researchers, please send an email to HealthResearch@uni.gl with your name and area of interest.
PhD programme
PhD students:
Anja Jørgensen
Bodil Damgaard Hoffmeyer
Emma Vitale
Helene Nielsen
Mads Bjørn Bjørnsen
Maja Hykkelbjerg Hald
Michael Jensen
Paneeraq Noahsen
Completed PhD projects
- Anna Maria Anderson: "Investigation of atopic dermatitis in Greenland; distinct genotypes, phenotypes and immunotypes"
- Christine Ingemann: "Putting families and local professionals at the heart of implementation research: A qualitative implementation study on Greenland’s universal parenting programme MANU 0-1 Year"
- Hjalte Larsen: "Undersøgelse af hjertesvigt i Grønland"
- Ivalu Katajavaara Seidler: "Trajectories, risk factors and risk patterns for youth suicide in Greenland - A systematic approach based on registries and surveys"
- Julie Flyger Holflod: "Implementation of best practice models in treatment of alcohol and other addictions in Greenland"
- Karen Bjørn-Mortensen: "Tuberculosis in East Greenland - Epidemiologic and Genomic Insights into a TB high incidence setting"
- Karsten Rex: "Hepatitis among Greenlanders in Denmark and in Greenland, and the effect of chronic HPV infection in Greenland"
- Malene B. Demant: "Effekten af øredræn - et randomiseret kontrolleret studie blandt børn i Grønland. The SIUTIT Trial"
- Mette Malene Motzfeldt Jensen: "Cold Metabolism and Brown Adipose Tissue Activation in Inuit and Danes"
- Mette Mørup Schlütter: "Living with uncertainty in old age – an ethnographic exploration of the experience of old age in Greenland"
- Mie Møller: “Aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic in Greenland”
- Mikaela Augustussen: "Palliation til grønlandske kræftpatienter i Grønland og i Danmark"
- Nadja Albertsen: "Cardiac Arrhythmias in Greenland"
- Nick Duelund: "Vision Screening in Greenlandic Children"
- Steven Arnfjord: "Deltagende Aktionsforskning med Socialrådgivere - Empowerment af Grønlands oversete velfærdsprofession"
- Tine Aagaard: "Hverdagsliv med sygdom – Patienters kulturelle perspektiver på sundhedspraksis i Grønland"
- Tobias Todsen: "Surgeon-performed ultrasonography – Collecting validity evidence for assessment of abdominal and head & neck ultrasonography skills"
- Trine Jul Larsen: "Diabetic eye disease in Greenland"
PhD committee
PhD committee of the Institute of Health & Nature (Ilisimatusarfik) consists of:
Lene Seibæk, professor, PhD, Institute of Health & Nature, Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland & senior researcher at Aarhus University Hospital (chair person).
Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann, PhD, post doc, associate professor, Institute of Health & Nature, Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland.
Michael Lynge Pedersen, professor, dr.med., Steno Diabetes Center Greenland and Institute of Health & Nature, Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland.
Magni Mohr professor, ph.d., Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Vice-Rector for Research and Business , Fróðskaparsetur Føroya / University of Faroe Islands.
Contact
Greenland Center for Health Research
Institute of Health & Nature
Ilisimatusarfik
Manutooq 1, 3905 Nuussuaq
P.O. Box: 1061
E-mail: HealthResearch@uni.gl
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