NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Case, Cheryl A
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The questions posed are: 1. Did genotyping identify unknown TB contacts or transmissions among cases studied? Examination of the genotype of each isolate of M. tuberculosis from reported cases in the NWT may identify epidemiological links among the studied cases not previously identified through conventional contact tracing. The study will quantitatively review epidemiological links established ...

Principal Investigator: Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: The purpose of this population health study is to determine the prevalence and incidence of asthma and wheezing, and to identify factors associated with these conditions in aboriginal and non-aboriginal children living in the Northwest Territories and Yu...

Principal Investigator: Freitag, Sharon
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: Ms. Freitag is completing a study begun in 1987 to see how and why the types of cancer that Inuit develop have changed since 1950....

Principal Investigator: Gillan, J.D.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To compile statistics on the incidence and periodicity of Uveitis in the Great Slave area of Canada....

Principal Investigator: Postl, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To study epidemiology and therapy of Group A Streptococcal disease in northern native communities....

Principal Investigator: Hornby, A.P.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To identify environmental factors involved in nasopharyngeal and esophageal cancers among the Canadian Inuit. This licence is conditional on all substances and drugs used being prescribed by the local physician....

Principal Investigator: Moroz, Paul J.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To conduct an epidemiological survey of the respiratory health status of a statistically significant population of northern native children and then to relate this data to the environmental factors relevant to the respiratory health of these children....

Principal Investigator: Hornby, A.P.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To identify environmental factors involved in nasopharyngeal and esophageal cancers among the Canadian Inuit....

Principal Investigator: Postl, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To study epidemiology and therapy of Group A Streptococcal disease in northern native communities, St. Therese Point, Manitoba and Rankin Inlet, N.W.T....

Principal Investigator: Larke, R.P. Bryce
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To carry out a study of the epidemiology and control of viral hepatitis in Northern Canada....