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 located in the newly-remoldeled east wing of the Arctic Health Research Building on UAF's West Ridge.

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.

•CANCELLED: Psychotherapy and Community Intervention Summer Sessions
Edison J. Trickett, Ph.D. University of Illinois Chicago

“Doing community-based participatory research from start to almost finish”
Nancy Schoenberg, Ph.D. University of Kentucky more...

CANHR will also co-sponsor a seminar by Drs. Thomas and Jean Kirch, Stanford University faculty. They will teach Jungian Theory and Applications. ...more