AK INBRE: Links

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Alaska BRIN is the result of a Institutional development award from the National Center for Research Resources a subdivision of National Institutes of Health. BRIN's Administrative Core located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Anchorage.

For additional information on new research, please see our sister site Alaska EPSCoR.

BRIN member institutions

University of Alaska Fairbanks

University of Alaska Anchorage

University of Alaska Southeast

Sitka Campus

Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, Alaska

Ilisagvik College in Barrow, Alaska and

Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska

State BRIN sites

Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program BRIN Directory of Fiscal Year 2001 Awards by State.

Additional links

Additional links to organizations, agencies, for those who have an interest in Alaska Native Health issues, Alaska Native and other indigenous peoples issues, and/or agencies/organizations involved in health issues (federal, state, and other). These are by no means comprehensive lists.

Alaska Native Health Organizations

Alaska Area Native Health Service (http://www.ihs.gov/FacilitiesServices/AreaOffices/Alaska/index.asp)

Alaska Native Health Board (http://www.anhb.org/)

Alaska Native Medical Center (http://www.anthc.org)

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (http://www.anthc.org/)

Center for Alaska Native Health Research (http://www.alaska.edu/canhr/) - also listed under 'other sites'

Healthfinder-American Indians and Alaska Natives (http://www.healthfinder.gov/justforyou/justforyou.asp?KeyWordID=220&branch=1)

Maniilaq Association (http://www.maniilaq.org/home.html)

Mayo Clinic Native American Programs (http://www.mayo.edu/nativeprograms/)

National Indian Health Board (http://www.nihb.org/)

National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region, Inupiaq (Inupiat) Alaska Native Cultural Profile (http://nnlm.gov/pnr/ethnomed/inupiaq.html)

Norton Sound Health Corporation (http://nortonsoundhealth.org/)

Southcentral Foundation (http://www.southcentralfoundation.org/home.html)

Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (http://www.searhc.org/)

Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (http://www.ykhc.org)

Alaska Native and Other Indigenous Peoples Organizations

Alaska Federation of Natives (http://www.nativefederation.org/flash.html)

Alaska Inter-Tribal Council (http://www.aitc.org/)

Alaska Native Knowledge Network (http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/)

Alaska Native Science Commission (http://www.nativescience.org/)

Alaska Traditional Diet Project (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/alaska/)

Alaska Traditional Knowledge and Native Foods Database (http://www.nativeknowledge.org/login.asp)

Alaskool (http://www.alaskool.org/) - also listed under 'web resources for teachers'

Aleutian-Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. (http://www.apiai.com/)

American Indian Science and Engineering Society (http://www.aises.org/)

Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat (http://www.arcticpeoples.org/)

Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/basc/)

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (http://www.tapirisat.ca/english/main.htm)

Native American Fish & Wildlife Society, Alaska Region (http://www.alaska.net/~aknafws/)

Native American Fish & Wildlife Society (http://www.nafws.org/)

NativeWeb (http://www.nativeweb.org/)

RurAL CAP (http://www.ruralcap.com)

Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (http://www.sacnas.org/)

Tribal Connections in the Pacific Northwest (http://www.tribalconnections.org/)

Federal, State and Other Health Organizations

Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Health (http://www.state.ak.us/dec/eh/)

Alaska Dept. of Health and Social Services (http://www.hss.state.ak.us/)

Alaska Dept. of Health and Social Services, Epidemiology Section (http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/default.asp)

Alaska Telehealth Advisory Council (http://health.hss.state.ak.us/commissioner/atac/)

Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (http://www.afhcan.org/)

Alaska Public Health Association (http://www.alaskapublichealth.org/)

Healthy People 2010 (http://www.healthypeople.gov/)

National Environmental Health Association (http://www.neha.org/)

U.S. Arctic Investigations Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC (http://www2.cdc.gov/ncidod/aip)

U.S. Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/)

U.S. Environmental Genome Project (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/envgenom/home.htm)

U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (http://www.hrsa.gov/)

U.S. Indian Health Service (http://www.ihs.gov/)

U.S. National Cancer Institute, Native American Initiatives (http://surveillance.cancer.gov/disparities/native/)

U.S. National Center for Environmental Health, CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/)

U.S. National Center for Toxicogenomics (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/nct/)

U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute (http://www.genome.gov/)

U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/)

U.S. National Science Foundation(http://www.nsf.gov/)

U.S. Office of Minority Health (http://www.omhrc.gov/)

Health information sites

Healthfinder - A key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.

MEDLINEplus - A goldmine of health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine

National Library of Medicine - Arctic Health information portal

SLED Health Links - sites with information relevant to Alaska and General Health, Disabilities, & Social Services

Web Resources for Teachers

A Place for Teachers - Alaska Department of Education & Early Development resources for teachers

Alaska Native Language Center - A center for research and documentation of the twenty Native languages of Alaska

Alaska Native Knowledge Network - A resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems, government agencies, educators, and the general public in gaining access to the knowledge base that Alaska Natives have acquired through cumulative experience over millennia

Alaska Partnership for Teacher Enhancement - A 5-year U.S. Department of Education grant focusing on preparing quality teachers who can help ensure all students leave their public education experience with the skills and knowledge to be successful

AKPT3 - Alaska Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology

Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative - An effort to systematically document the indigenous knowledge systems of Alaska Native people and develop practices that effectively integrate indigenous knowledge into educational programs

Alaska Staff Development Network - A partnership of Alaska's 53 school districts, the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, NEA-Alaska, and others that provides teacher training and mentoring opportunities

Alaskool.org - Online materials about Alaska Native history, education, languages, and cultures

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse - This site is devoted to identifying effective curriculum resources, creating high quality professional development materials, and disseminating useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning

GLOBE Program - An international hands-on environmental science and education program that connects K-12 students, teachers, and scientists around the world for research collaboration and cross-cultural enrichment

LitSite Alaska - A Web community promoting literacy, cultural diversity, and well-being throughout Alaska, featuring narratives illustrating many cultural aspects of life in Alaska and an archive of lesson plans used in Alaska classrooms

NIH LIFEWORKS -- A FREE CAREER EXPLORATION SITE. - The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Science Education (OSE) introduces "LifeWorks", an interactive Web site featuring more than 100 careers in the health and medical sciences. It is designed as a resource for middle school and high school students, parents, educators, and school guidance/career counselors to explore the diversity of careers in the field. According to the Department of Labor, these jobs are expected to be among the fastest growing jobs in the nation over the next 10 years

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory - The NWREL Mathematics and Science Education Center offers teacher-support materials available free of charge to Alaska

SLED Education Links - Alaska and General Education sites

Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA) - The centerpiece of the TEA program is a research experience in which K-12 teachers participates in a polar expedition

Other Sites of Interest

Alaska Native Epidemiology Center - A report from the Alaska Native Epidemiology Center, Alaska Native Health Board, that provides information on contaminant levels in wildlife and traditional foods

Alaska Traditional Diet Project - A project to assist consumers of Alaskan traditional foods to make informed dietary decisions

Arctic Contaminants - A project by the Alaska Native Science Commission and the University of Alaska's Institute of Social and Economic Research to build capacity among Alaskan communities to identify and address concerns about environmental changes and contamination

Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) - A program of the University of Alaska to build and increase research capacity to help improve the health of Alaska Natives

Circumpolar Conservation Union - Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Alaska: What does Science Tell Us?

Dietary Benefits and Risks in Alaskan Villages - An NIEHS-supported Environmental Justice project that addresses dietary questions raised by native people living in villages throughout Alaska (click on Brubaker)

Lariat (Montana State) - Creating a community of biomedical researchers and educators by connecting them to next-generation national and international cyber-infrastructure, e-science opportunities and resources.

Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) Database - A new NCP Publications Database, which describes more than 760 publications that have resulted from Canada's Northern Contaminants Program, is available online from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

Rural Assistance Center - A rural health and human services information portal

WWAMI Regional Center of Excellence (RCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research - One of eight regional centers established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, in September 2003. The purpose of the NIAID biodefense research program is to develop the tools necessary to protect the public from potential agents of bioterrorism and from emerging natural biological threats.

Most of the materials for this page were provided by the Outreach Core.
This site was created and is maintained by the Alaska BRIN Administrative Core.
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Last updated, spring, 2004.