Welcome to this seminar on Indigenous Health with guest researchers from Gothenburg and Alaska!
The seminar will focus on the ethical considerations in using biological samples from Indigenous Peoples. There will be a particular emphasis on experiences from Sámi research and studies among Arctic Indigenous communities in Canada and Alaska.
Venue
Umeå University, Hospital building 5B, 3rd floor. Meeting room: Butajira
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Register before 23 September
Details on how to register will be provided via e-mail invitation. This seminar is for invited participants from the networks of Várdduo, Arctic Centre, and the Lávvuo Research Group.
The Alaska Area Specimen Bank, Diana Bensyl and Karen Miernyk, Alaska Centre for Disease Control (CDC)
An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations, Kaisa Thorell, Gothenburg University
Sámi health and health strategies in Sweden, Jon Petter Stoor, Lávvuo research group at Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University
Ethics in Sámi and Indigenous research, Kristina Sehlin MacNeil, Deputy Director at Várdduo – Centre for Sámi Research at Umeå University
13:45 Fika (coffee and snacks)
14:00 Welcome
Lena Maria Nilsson, Arctic Centre at Umeå University
14:05 Round of presentations
14:20 Presentations by invited speakers
15:20 Discussion