NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Goldfarb, David
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5494. The research team propose to identify the respiratory infection admissions at all hospitals serving Nunavummiut children under one year of age from 2010-2020. The objectives of the study are to: 1) Determine the rate and outcome of infant respiratory infection hospitalizations; 2) Assess the effectiveness of the paliv...

Principal Investigator: Goldfarb, David
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4873. The research team propose to identify the respiratory infection admissions at all hospitals serving Nunavummiut children under one year of age from 2010-2020. The objectives of the study are to 1) determine the rate and outcome of infant respiratory infection hospitalizations; 2) assess the effectiveness of the pa...

Principal Investigator: Sharma, Sangita
Licensed Year(s): 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4694. Indigenous women living in Canada’s North may face challenges during pregnancy, childbirth, and after delivery. Complications can arise from limited access to healthcare services. In this project, communities and the research team will work together to develop a program to improve the health of Indigenous mothers and ...

Principal Investigator: Paulette, Lesley
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: Phase 1 - to provide to the membership of the Native Women's Association an overview of the current status of maternity care in the NWT, including a preliminary needs assessment based on interviews with native women elders and various health care providers. Areas for further research will be identified as well as proposals for subsequent initiatives to promote maternal and infant health and famil...

Principal Investigator: Barreto, Luis
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: A preliminary study will be undertaken to confirm the safety and the immunogenicity of the Connaught conjugate vaccine for native populations of the NWT (Phase I). This will be determined by the frequency and severity of adverse responses to three doses of the vaccine by a sample of infants 2-3 months of age drawn from Inuit and Dene populations. Parental consent will be obtained for all those in...

Principal Investigator: Godel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To carry our research in the Inuvik area on northern infant nutrition. To study the vitamin, mineral and nutritional status of women during pregnancy and breast-feeding, to relate these findings to both the vitamin status of their infants at birth and to the immunologic and clinical status of the infants at six weeks of age....

Principal Investigator: Godel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To do a Northern Infant Nutritional Study by looking into the vitamin, mineral, and nutritional status of northern women during pregnancy and during breast feeding and to relate these findings to the vitamin status of their infants at birth and during the first six weeks of life; also to give vitamin supplements to the infants in a controller manner to re- evaluate their vitamin status at six wee...

Principal Investigator: Poole, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To draft nutrition guidelines on nutritious foods and safe food management for the Day Care centres in the N.W.T....

Principal Investigator: Pabst, M.D., H.F.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: BCG vaccine take in babies with and without maternal PPD sensitization....

Principal Investigator: Moisey, Claire
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To conduct a study on BCG vaccine. Blood samples of infants and their mothers will be taken during normal doctor visitations....