Programme

Subject to change

Day 1
Thursday, February 1

Honoring Teachings and Framing One Health

Location: Frobisher Inn Hotel and Conference Centre

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: Registration

  • Registration and distribution of materials

  • Coffee and snacks

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Opening and Welcome

  • Welcoming remarks from Nancy Mike

  • Qulliq lighting and story by Annie Petaulassie

  • Performance by Inuksuk Drum Dancers from Inuksuk High School

  • Welcome from Dr. Gwen Healey Akearok on behalf of Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Keynote Addresses and Elders Discussion

  • Keynote: Siila Watt-Cloutier (will join by Zoom)

    • Siila Watt-Cloutier  is a Canadian Inuk activist and an Officer of the Order of Canada. She has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national, and international levels, most recently as International Chair for the Inuit Circumpolar Council (formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference). Watt-Cloutier has worked on a range of social and environmental issues affecting Inuit including persistent organic pollutants, which contaminate food sources, and the impacts of climate change on northern communities. She has received numerous awards and honours for her work and has been featured in a number of documentaries and profiled by journalists from all media. Watt-Cloutier sits as an adviser to Canada's Ecofiscal Commission. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

  • Panel: Elders Advisory Discussion Circle facilitated by Joe Karetak

    • Joe Karetak is the lead Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit researcher at Aqqiumavvik Society in Arviat Nunavut. Joe was a trained educator and, after leaving the classroom, worked with Elder advisors on curriculum development for 2 decades. Joe facilitates the Elder Advisory Committee for the Nunavut NEIHR, which is a centre for Inuit scholarship and early career researchers. Joe will be joined by Tunaalak Mike Gibbons, Haviq Lisa Gibbons, Paul Sanernut, Lucy Sanernut, and Quluaq Catherine Pilakapsi for a discussion circle on the intersecitonality of human-environmental-animal health in the context of human beings in the universe.

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Catered Lunch and Networking at the venue

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM: Greenlandic Perspectives about the interconnectedness of human-animal-environmental health

  • Speaker 1: Dr. Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann,

    • SILA biology - an education where climate and mind are the same.

      Dr. Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann was born in Nuuk and grew up in Sisimiut. She is a self-described microbiologist and public debater. She was born in the capital of Greenland, Nuuk in ‘86 and grew up at the polar circle in the town Sisimiut.  She holds a Ph.D. in microbial metagenomics with focus on Arctic environments and is working on a post-doc project ‘The Greenland Diet Revolution’, a research project on the microbes in traditional Greenlandic foods and the gut microbiome.

  • Speaker 2: Dr. Karsten Rex,

    • Health in Greenland: Stories from the perspective of a health professional

      Dr. Karsten Rex is a family physician from Greenland who brings stories, humour, and Kalaaleq worldview into his medical practice.

  • Panel with Key Listeners from Greenlandic perspective.

  • Moderator: Dr. Christina V.L. Larsen, Denmark/Greenland

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Refreshment Break

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Perspectives from Inuit Nunangat on OneHealth and Wildlife

  • Moderator: Amy Caughey

  • Speaker 1: Jason Akearok,

    • Nanuk Narratives: A co-management collaboration and first-person testimony of Inuit knowledge

      Jason Akearok, originally from Sanirajak, Nunavut, is the Executive Director of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, the main wildlife management instrument created under the Nunavut Agreement. He is formally trained as a biologist and brings his experience as a hunter and community member to the processes of wildlife management in the territory.

  • Speaker 2: Dr. Enooyaq Sudlovenick,

    • One Health and Indigenous Approaches to Wildlife Research in Inuit Nunangat

      Dr. Enooyaq Sudluvenick is from Iqaluit, Nunavut. Her previous research has focused on the health of ring seals and beluga whales – important food sources for Inuit.  As a harvester with her family, she strives to ensure her work is grounded in Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit. She was recently appointed to the faculty at University of Prince Edward Island.

  • Speaker 3: Jamal Shirley and Sharon Edmunds,

    • A One Health Approach to Trichinellosis Prevention – the Nunavut Trichinella Detection Program

      Jamal Shirley is the Director of Innovation and Research for Nunavut Arctic College and is based at the Nunavut Research Institute (NRI) in Iqaluit.  Jamal provides oversight and support for scientific research, training, and capacity building initiatives at the College and he has worked with NTI since 2017 to develop Nunavut’s Trichinella diagnostic program.

      Sharon Edmunds is a Senior Research Advisor at Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and is a co-lead on the Nunavut Trichinella Detection Program along with Jamal Shirley at NRI.

Day 2
Friday, February 2

From personal stories to Collaboration and Action

Location: Frobisher Inn Hotel and Conference Centre

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Recap of Day 1 and Introduction to Day 2

  • Welcome from Dr. Enooyaq Sudlovenick

  • Brief overview of previous day's discussions and workshops

  • Objectives for Day 2

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Storytelling and Knowledge Exchange: Narratives, Stories, Art, Film

  • Moderator: Dr. Enooyaq Sudlovenick

  • Speaker 1: Nancy Mike,

    • Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and One Health: Exploring Multi-Faceted Perspectives on Inuit Health Systems

      Nancy Mike is originally from Panniqtuuq Nunavut. She is formally trained as a nurse, and is also a well-known artist and performer. She is a researcher at the Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre

  • Speaker 2: Karen Aglukark,

    • Healing and transformation: An Inuk student’s journey from the Western classroom back to the community.

      Karen Aglukark is originally from Arviat, Nunavut. She has a background in neuroscience and is currently pursuing graduate studies.

  • Speaker 3: Rhoda Katsak, Dana Katsak and Damian Enoogoo,

    • Intergenerational Film Production to Support Inuit Food Knowledge.

      Rhoda Katsak spent her childhood years living in Inuit hunting camps before being moved in from the land to attend Federal Day School in Iglulik. After holding various administrative positions for the Pond Inlet Hamlet, she was appointed Regional Director of Economic Development for the Government of Nunavut, a post she held from 2005-2020. Rhoda Katsak is co-author of the book Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women (1999), written in collaboration with her mother, Apphia Agalakti Awa, her daughter then Sandra Pikuyak Katsak, and Nancy Wachowich. Now retired, Rhoda and her husband Josh are actively involved in training extended family members and younger generations of Inuit in Mittimatalik as hunters, seal skin seamstresses, and country food cooks.

      Dana Katsak was born and raised in Mittimatalik. She is a media-maker that is passionate about Inuit country food research and cooking.  Dana is the Social Media Ambassador and Digital Archivist for Mittimatalik's Inuksiutit: Inuit Food Sovereignty in Nunavut project.

      Damian Enoogoo is from Mittimatalik. He is passionate about learning, exchanging ideas, and sparking dialogue that challenges both his own and the other person's perspectives. He uses filmmaking to illustrate the possibility of presenting a story through character, dialogue, and mood. He works as a videographer, content producer, and video editor for the Inuksiutit project team in Mittimatalik.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Country foods and food sovereignty

  • Speaker 1: Igah Sanguya,

    • Niqivut Silalu Asijjipalliajuq: Country food for health and well-being in Nunavut

      Igah Sanguya is from Clyde River, Nunavut. Now retired, Igah was a Community Health Representative with the Nunavut Department of Health. She is passionate about her country's food, continues to work in country food research to preserve her culture and language. She is a Research Associate at the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health. She and her husband Joelie have five children, thirteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. She enjoys outdoor activities  like hunting and adventuring.

  • Speaker 2: Amy Caughey and Martha Jaw,

    • Inuksiutit: Inuit Food Sovereignty in Nunavut

      Amy Caughey is a nutritionist and public health researcher in Nunavut.  She has learned about country food and community health in Nunavut from Inuit women and their families, Elders, hunters, Inuit organizations and health professionals across the north over the past 20 years.  Amy is a Research Associate at the Nunavut Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta School of Public Health.  Amy is a settler of European descent and is privileged to live in Iqaluit with her family.

      Martha Jaw has been a community health representative in Kinngait, Nunavut for many years.  She was originally from Iqaluit, and moved to Kinngait in the 1970s when she married her husband, the late Matthew Jaw.  Martha is passionate about sharing country food knowledge, in particular the joy of the women's whale tail feast.  Martha is a mother, a grandmother and a great-grandmother.  She lives in Kinngait with her family.

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Catered Lunch at the venue

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Building Partnerships and Visioning for the Future

Self-select into 2 groups:

o   Group 1 - Creative Collection (arts-based discussion), facilitated by Nancy Mike and Dr. Gwen Healey Akearok

Creative collection is a collective process for developing stories from collective experiences. In this activity, participants will have the opportunity to participate in an arts-based creative collection mural project, focused on drawing experiences, perspectives, and future visions for OneHealth. This activity will involve working with art supplies and mural paper on the wall of the conference room and explore personal and community experiences and narrative. Everyone will be drawing.

o   Group 2: - Discussion Circle, Facilitated by Dr. Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann, Dr. Karsten Rex, Dr. Christina Larsen.

  • In this discussion circle, participants will be invited to reflect on and share perspectives.

  • What are community questions/ concerns/ research for OneHealth?

  • What is needed to support Indigenous perspectives, what is the message up to international groups, such as the Arctic Council/Sustainable Development Working Group?

  • Should this gathering be repeated?

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Refreshment Break

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM: Closing Circle and Farewell

  • A time for reflection and sharing.