The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) was established through a five-year grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The purpose of CANHR is to investigate weight, nutrition, and health in Alaska Natives. CANHR approaches this thematic focus from a genetic, dietary, and cultural-behavioral perspective. The funding comes through a program for Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). This project has been and is being developed in partnership with the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC).
The Center's main offices are temporarily located in Stuart Hall on UAF's central campus.

CANHR News...

Dr. Gerald V. Mohatt, CANHR's director, wins the 2008 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Research Award. more...

* This summer CANHR will host a number of seminars and discussions, featuring our President's Professors of Biomedical Research. For more information click on the links.

• Globalization and Culture Seminar Series
Kim Hopper Ph.D., Columbia University more...
* READINGS

• Outcomes Elsewhere: Long-term Course of Schizophrenia in the WHO International study of Schizophrenia
Kim Hopper Ph.D., Columbia University more...

• Psychotherapy and Community Intervention Summer Sessions
Edison J. Trickett, Ph.D. University of Illinois Chicago
Beti Thompson, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center University of Washington more...