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

Researchers

• Anders Koch, MD, PhD, Professor, MPH, [email protected]

• Aviaaja L. Hauptmann, PhD, Adjunct, [email protected]

• Bibi Hølge-Hazelton, PhD, RN, Professor, [email protected]

• Birgit Niclasen, Adjunct, PhD, [email protected]

• Christina VL Larsen, PhD, cand. scient. soc., Professor, [email protected]

• Christine Ingemann, BScN & (Res)MSc Global Health, PhD, [email protected]

• Carsten Juul Jensen, PhD, Associate professor, [email protected]

• Eva C. Bonefeld-Jørgensen, PhD, Professor, [email protected]

• Gert Mulvad, MD, GP, Doctor h.c., [email protected]

• Hjalte Erichsen Larsen, MD, PhD, [email protected]

• Ingelise Olesen, Research Coordinator, [email protected]

• Ivalu Katajavaara Seidler, Cand.Scient.San.Publ., PhD, [email protected]

• Julie Flyger Holflod, Cand.Scient.San.Publ., PhD, [email protected]

• Jørgen Bjerggaard Jensen, dr. med., [email protected]

• Karen Bjørn Mortensen, MD, PhD, [email protected]

• Karsten Rex, MD, GP, PhD, [email protected]

• Lene Seibæk, PhD, RN, Professor, [email protected]

• Lise Hounsgaard, PhD, RN, Senior Researcher, [email protected]

• Marit E. Jørgensen, MD, PhD, Professor, [email protected]

• Mette Malene Motzfeldt Jensen, MD, PhD, [email protected]

• Mette Schlütter, PhD, Anthropology, [email protected]

• Michael Lynge Pedersen, MD, GP, PhD, Dr. Med., Professor, [email protected]

• Nadja Albertsen, MD, [email protected]

• Nick Duelund, MD, PhD, [email protected]

• Nils Skovgaard, PhD, [email protected]

• Ninna Senftleber, Postdoc, PhD, [email protected]

• Preben Homøe, MD, PhD, Dr. Med., [email protected]

• Rebecca Paarnannguaq Berg, dyrlæge, PhD, [email protected]

• Ruth Montgomery-Andersen, DrPH, [email protected]

• Sonja Sørensen, Research Assistant, [email protected]; [email protected]

• Stig Andersen, MD, PhD, PGCME, Clinical Professor, [email protected]

• Stine Byberg, PhD, [email protected]

• Tenna Jensen, PhD, Associate Professor, [email protected]

• Tine Aagaard, RN, PhD, Senior Researcher, [email protected]

• Trine Jul Larsen, BScN & MSc Public Health, PhD, [email protected]

• Ulla Wewer, MD, DMSc, Professor, [email protected]

• Umbreen Yousaf, MD, [email protected]

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 [email protected] with your name and area of interest.

PhD programme

PhD students:

• Anja Jørgensen, [email protected]

• Bodil Damgaard Hoffmeyer, MD, [email protected]

• Emma Vitale, MA Archaeology, [email protected]

• Helene Nielsen, MSc, [email protected]

• Mads Bjørn Bjørnsen, Cand Scient. Biology, [email protected]

• Mads Mose Jensen, MD[email protected]

• Maja Hykkelbjerg Hald, MScPH, Cand.Scient.San.Publ., [email protected]

• Mathilde Tuborg, MD, [email protected]

• Michael Jensen, cand.psych., [email protected]

• Nathalie Demuth Fryd, MD, [email protected]

• Mie Møller, MD, [email protected]

• Paneeraq Noahsen, MD, [email protected]

Completed PhD projects:

• 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"

• Karen Bjørn-Mortensen: "Tuberculosis in East Greenland - Epidemiologic and Genomic Insights into a TB high incidence setting"

• Mikaela Augustussen: "Palliation til grønlandske kræftpatienter i Grønland og i Danmark"

• 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"

• Trine Jul Larsen: "Diabetic eye disease in Greenland"

• 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"

• Anna Maria Anderson: "Investigation of atopic dermatitis in Greenland; distinct genotypes, phenotypes and immunotypes"

• Nick Duelund: "Vision Screening in Greenlandic Children"

• Julie Flyger Holflod: "Implementation of best practice models in treatment of alcohol and other addictions in Greenland"

• Ivalu Katajavaara Seidler: "Trajectories, risk factors and risk patterns for youth suicide in Greenland - A systematic approach based on registries and surveys"

• Hjalte Larsen: "Undersøgelse af hjertesvigt i Grønland"

• Mette Mørup Schlütter: "Living with uncertainty in old age – an ethnographic exploration of the experience of old age in Greenland"

• Nadja Albertsen: "Cardiac Arrhythmias in Greenland"

• Mette Malene Motzfeldt Jensen: "Cold Metabolism and Brown Adipose Tissue Activation in Inuit and Danes"

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: [email protected]