1. One Health
The One Health is a multidisciplinary approach to health risks and risk mitigation for humans, animals, plants and the environment. Several research projects have been ongoing: EU funded ArcSolution, ILLUQ and UArctic funded “One Health in Northern Communities and Ecosystems” postgraduate level course. There is also collaboration with INTERACT (EU funded project, 2012-2023) in the monitoring of possible vectors for zoonotic diseases. The recently completed project under this sub-group: CLINF and CLINF-Green led by Birgitta Evengård (Nordic Centre of Excellence, climate change effects on infectious diseases, 2016-24); Nunataryuk led by AWI (Horizon project, Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation, 2017-23); and One Arctic – One Health (SDWG project of Arctic Council; see: SDWG website and UArctic website). Sub-group contact: anastasia.emelyanova@oulu.fi.
2. Healthy ageing
Healthy ageing in the Arctic is a topic attracted several scholars from the Thematic Network and developed via several channels: (1) received funding from the Nordic Arctic Co-operation Programme for the project "Arctic Healthy Aging communities: Safe and inclusive outdoor environment and public spaces (The Nordic AHA-Communities)", 2023-2026, (2) received funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers 2020-2022 for the project "Indigenous and non-indigenous residents of the Nordic-Russian region: Best practices for equity in healthy ageing (NORRUS-AGE)". (3) TN members worked on the "healthy ageing" theme within the Northern Dimension Institute ThinkTank Action project, 2018-2022. (3) TN members contributing to the TN on "Ageing and Gender in the Arctic" project “AGE-Arctic”. Projects contact: anastasia.emelyanova@oulu.fi.
3. Circumpolar Maternal and Child Health Working Group
The Maternal and Child Health Working Group’s vision is to promote and advocate for a human-rights based approach to improving health outcomes and equity in the circumpolar region. The Group aspires to: i) nurture collaborative relationships both within the groups as well as across and beyond the region, ii) offer support to maternal and child health projects, iii) advocate for ethical collaborations with Indigenous people and their families, and iv) and produce scientific articles that can contribute towards improving the health and well-being of Arctic mothers, children and families. More information, group members and research focus see in the Group Statement. Contact: Christine Ingemann (chin@sdu.dk)
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.
More results can be seen here.
Completed activities in research and education:
