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Exploring health impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Chatwood, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5254. The objective is study the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous people in the Northwest Territories. The research team hope this study will produce high level policy recommendations for future pandemic response. Furthermore, the team hope the co-development of COVID 19 data and evidence will contribute to the development ...
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5254. The objective is study the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous people in the Northwest Territories. The research team hope this study will produce high level policy recommendations for future pandemic response. Furthermore, the team hope the co-development of COVID 19 data and evidence will contribute to the development ...
Developing YKDFN Youth-Led Health Messaging Programs with Communities
Principal Investigator: Lines, Laurie-Ann
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5478. The main goal of the research is to understand Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) youth’s and community views on health, community strengths, and appropriate communication and message development activities to develop a suitable youth-led health messaging intervention. Capturing views on community strengths will a...
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5478. The main goal of the research is to understand Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) youth’s and community views on health, community strengths, and appropriate communication and message development activities to develop a suitable youth-led health messaging intervention. Capturing views on community strengths will a...
Ekati Diamond Mine
Principal Investigator: O'Keefe, Harry
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5422. The main objectives of the field work for 2023 will be to determine if the Ekati Diamond Mine is having an effect on the surrounding aquatic environment, wildlife, and air quality; and to provide baseline data for areas where mine development may occur in the future. In winter, water samples will be collected unde...
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5422. The main objectives of the field work for 2023 will be to determine if the Ekati Diamond Mine is having an effect on the surrounding aquatic environment, wildlife, and air quality; and to provide baseline data for areas where mine development may occur in the future. In winter, water samples will be collected unde...
Prescribing planetary health in a circumpolar health region
Principal Investigator: Redvers, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5401. The Principal Investigator (PI) will carry out focus groups with public and community stakeholders, and interviews with physicians to help identify views on planetary health informed healthcare, views on the introduction of planetary health informed prescribing into the regional health care system, and the potential b...
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5401. The Principal Investigator (PI) will carry out focus groups with public and community stakeholders, and interviews with physicians to help identify views on planetary health informed healthcare, views on the introduction of planetary health informed prescribing into the regional health care system, and the potential b...
Potential for large lakes to serve as climate refugia for cold-adapted plants
Principal Investigator: Nielsen, Scott
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5407. The objective of this thesis is to quantify the extent of lake-mediated cooling and its effect on shoreline and inland plant species at varying scales. The principal investigator (PI) will establish a series of transects at large lakes in northern regions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Terr...
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5407. The objective of this thesis is to quantify the extent of lake-mediated cooling and its effect on shoreline and inland plant species at varying scales. The principal investigator (PI) will establish a series of transects at large lakes in northern regions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Terr...
Resurgence of Dene Canoe Practices
Principal Investigator: Wilson, Alex
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5377. This project aims to centre Dene approaches to canoeing for people who deliver or participate in Dene-led canoe trips in Denendeh. This will support them to learn Dene canoe practices and strengthen their knowledge and skills to connect with their ancestral waterways. The research goal is to expand the understanding o...
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5377. This project aims to centre Dene approaches to canoeing for people who deliver or participate in Dene-led canoe trips in Denendeh. This will support them to learn Dene canoe practices and strengthen their knowledge and skills to connect with their ancestral waterways. The research goal is to expand the understanding o...
Why Did You Stay? An Investigation of Reasons Influencing the Retention of Small School Teaching Principals in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Field, James Colin
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5022. The purpose of the study is to identify reasons, moments, experiences, and conditions that have led NWT community school teaching principals to stay in their positions in small, remote NWT communities. The proposed study will engage a group of small school, rural and remote teaching principals in the NWT who have rema...
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5022. The purpose of the study is to identify reasons, moments, experiences, and conditions that have led NWT community school teaching principals to stay in their positions in small, remote NWT communities. The proposed study will engage a group of small school, rural and remote teaching principals in the NWT who have rema...
Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study (proposed fieldwork dates from November 2022 through February 2023)
Principal Investigator: Pickett, William
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5391. The study titled, Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), is a cross-national research project conducted by the HBSC research team at Queen’s and Brock Universities in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO Europe) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The HBSC study aims to gain insig...
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5391. The study titled, Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), is a cross-national research project conducted by the HBSC research team at Queen’s and Brock Universities in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO Europe) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The HBSC study aims to gain insig...
Examining the application and use of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative within Rural and Urban health facilities in Canada and Australia among Indigenous Mothers.
Principal Investigator: Neufeld, Hannah
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5373. The objectives of this research are to gather the firsthand experiences of policymakers, administrators, and health care providers on implementing and supporting access to maternal health services among Indigenous mothers; and to apply and adapt the Interactive Theory of Breastfeeding to explore theoretical concepts i...
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5373. The objectives of this research are to gather the firsthand experiences of policymakers, administrators, and health care providers on implementing and supporting access to maternal health services among Indigenous mothers; and to apply and adapt the Interactive Theory of Breastfeeding to explore theoretical concepts i...
Biochemical and metabolomic impact of trace metals (As, Sb, Cd, Ag, La, Ce) in various fish species and amphipods collected from the metal-impacted Yellowknife area
Principal Investigator: Rosabal, Maikel
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5278. The main goal is to generate a specific knowledge about the implications of metals bioaccumulated observed in the population of three species of fish (e.g., northern pike, lake whitefish, yellow perch) and invertebrates (H. azteca) inhabiting ecosystems located in this mining region. The specific objectives are: 1) to...
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5278. The main goal is to generate a specific knowledge about the implications of metals bioaccumulated observed in the population of three species of fish (e.g., northern pike, lake whitefish, yellow perch) and invertebrates (H. azteca) inhabiting ecosystems located in this mining region. The specific objectives are: 1) to...
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