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BRITISH COLUMBIA
APPENDIX 9. Healthcare Research Centres (cont’d)
RESEARCH CENTRE/ URL CONTACT DESCRIPTION
12. RURAL AND ABORIGINAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRES
Centre for Aboriginal
Health Research
(CAHR)
www.cahr.uvic.ca
New Emerging Team
for Health in Rural
& Northern British
Columbia
No URL
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
Tel: 250-853-3115
Fax: 250-472-5450
dinarak@uvic.ca
CAHR Director: Jeffrey Reading
jreading@uvic.ca
Tel: 250-472-5451
Fax: 250-472-545
Contact: Chris Lalonde, Associate
Director
Tel: 250-721-7535
lalonde@uvic.ca
NETHRN-BC
Department of Geography
PO Box 3060
University of Victoria
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3R4
Study Director: Aleck Ostry, Canada
Research Chair
Contact: Analisa Blake, Research
Project Manager
blakea@uvic.ca
CAHR is dedicated to promoting and engaging in health research in partnership with Aboriginal peoples to improve their health. The
Centre is a University of Victoria research centre that was created in May 2008, and acknowledge with respect the Coast Salish and Straits
Salish peoples on whose traditional territories the Centre is graciously hosted.
CAHR is leading Aboriginal population health research, collaborating with the University of Victoria and the University of Northern B.C. on
Network Environments for Aboriginal Research B.C. (NEARBC), funded by Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
CAHR Research projects conducted by the UVic Aboriginal Health Research Group (AHRG) and the CAHR have been in diverse areas of Aboriginal
health including: chronic disease, disability, First Nations health, knowledge translation, epidemiology, global indigenous health,
participatory and collaborative community-based research, and health disparities.
CAHR Research projects include:
• Health and mentorship survey of indigenous youth participants at the Cowichan 2008 north American indigenous games
• Health practitioners’ perspective on the barriers to diagnosis and treatment of diabetes in aboriginal people on Vancouver island
• First nations holistic policy and planning model
• First nations regional longitudinal health survey.
NETHRN-BC is the acronym for the New Emerging Team for Health in Rural & Northern B.C.. NETHRN-BC aims to develop and enhance
research capacity in the social determinants of rural and northern health.
NETHRN-BC program is to develop research capacity in the social determinants of rural and northern health in B.C.. This program is
multidisciplinary and guided by leading investigators including epidemiologists, geographers, psychologists, sociologists, and statisticians.
The program is based at four B.C. universities (University of Victoria, University of Northern B.C., Thompson Rivers University, and UBC).
NETHRN-BC researchers are connected to communities and local and regional policy makers concerned about improving the health status
of rural and northern British Columbians.
NETHRN-BC projects are focused on:
• development of rural health services in the Northern Health Authority
• early childhood education in the interior Health Authority
• exploration of rural/urban differences in health among a cohort of B.C. sawmill workers residing and working in both urban and rural
communities throughout the province
• exploring the empirical and theoretical dimensions of social capital and its link to health in rural communities in B.C..