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	Inuit Tuttarvingat, National Aboriginal Health Organization Inuit Tuttarvingat (formerly known as the Ajunnginiq Centre) is the Inuit-specific department of the National Aboriginal Health Organization. It is dedicated to improving the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual health of Inuit and their communities. The Inuit Tuttarvingat shares relevant, Inuit-specific health and wellness information through publications, health promotion materials, facilitating research, and making presentations.
	The National Inuit Youth Council (NIYC) NIYC represents Canada’s Inuit youth and with its interactive Web site at www.niyc.ca, maintains one of the key tools for information exchange among today’s Inuit youth.
	Inuit Communications Systems Ltd. (ICSL) ICSL is a fully Aboriginal-owned subsidiary of Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, located in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The company offers a state of the art production facility and is an expert in distance communication solutions in Canada’s Arctic.
	EnTheos Films This company has ample experience in Canada’s North and with Inuit. This turnkey video, television, new media and corporate production company, founded by Kath Clarida and Marianne Demmer, has developed good relationships with broadcasters, community radio stations and networks in the Arctic.
	Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada Pauktuutit fosters greater awareness of the needs of Inuit women, advocates for equity and social improvements, and encourages their participation in the community, regional and national life of Canada
	Researcher Grace Egeland and the coordinating committees of “Qanuippitali - Inuit Health Survey“ Dr. Grace Egeland is Chair in Environment, Nutrition and Health at the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition at McGill University. Her expertise reaches from chronic disease epidemiology, research methodology and multidisciplinary health research and her research covers areas of chronic disease impact of dietary change in Aboriginal populations and environmental and nutritional exposures to human health. Dr. Egeland has worked with Inuit for several years and has become an authority in her field. Currently she is lead researcher of the “Qanuippitali - Inuit Health Survey“.
	Department of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Rhonda Johnson currently serves as Chair of the Department of Health Sciences and Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Dr. Johnson’s expertise on public health, evaluation, health literacy, and maternal health care matters in Arctic rural areas, her decades-long experience in Arctic and northern communities and her interest in strengthening ties between researchers, educators and communities make her a very valuable partner in this project.

FUNDERS

• Government of Canada
• CIHR Team in Circumpolar Health Research
• Department of Health and Social Services, Government of Nunavut.
• First Air
• Canadian North

CREDITS

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PARTICIPANTS

• Fred Andersen, Counsellor, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Marie Belleau, Iqaluit
• Annie Buchan, Inuit Tuttarvingat Governing Committee
• Nubiya Enuaraq, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
• Brenda Epoo, Midwife, Inukjuak
• Rhonda Johnson, Department of Health Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage
• Pujjuut Kusugak, Social Development Coordinator at Kivalliq Inuit Association, Rankin Inlet
• Christine Lund, Tungasuuvingat Inuit
• Jesse Mike, National Inuit Youth Council
• Ruth Montgomery-Andersen, MPH, Nordic Institute of Greenland
• Aileen Moorhouse, Midwife, Inukjuak
• Herb Nakimayak, Paulatuk,
• Leesie Naqitarvik, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
• Shannon O'Hara, Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
• Looee Okalik, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
• Sophie Pamak, Nunatsiavut Government
• Jacob Partridge, elder, Nunavik
• Brenda Roos
• Andrea Taylor, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Athanasia Vouloukos, Health Canada
• Jennifer Williams, National Aborigina Role Model
• Nowyah Williams, Government of Nunavut
  

• Teevi Mackay
• Siobhan Iksiktaaryuk
• Reanna Sateana
• Paula Amy Rumbolt
• Marvin Atqittuq
• Kiah Hachey
• Kerri Tattuini
• Kathleen Merritt
• Karen Tutanuak
• Hugh John Karpik
• Elizabeth Ryan
• Ann-Marie Aitcheson