Northwest Territories and Nunavut Public Health Association
Vision / Mandate
To advocate for the improvement of personal and community health in accordance with the public health principles of disease prevention, health protection and promotion and healthy public policy.
Executive
President - Faye Stark
Past President - Dr. Isaac Sobol
Secretary and Editor of Newsletter - Frederick Montpeitit
Treasurer - Marnie Bell
Director of Special Projects in NWT - Jill Christensen
Director - Maria Santos
Director - Pertice Moffitt
Director - Cheryl Case
Healthy Foods North
The association is actively involved in the ‘Healthy Foods North’ project in partnership with the GNWT Department of Health and Social Services and the Beaufort Delta Health and Social Services Authority. The flagship project was initiated in Nunavut and our Nunavut executive members are highly involved with this initiative – The ‘Healthy Stores Project’. It is anticipated that the NWT project, and the community interventions designed as a result of the initial findings, will lay the ground work for similar initiative in the other NWT regions. The project while producing community nutrition scans, looks at individual and community food frequency and factors affecting food security.
International Congress of Circumpolar Health (ICCH) 2009
Plan to attend the 14th ICCH, July 2009 in Yellowknife. The association is presently involved with the planning of the congress and members will be actively involved as volunteers throughout the week of the congress, and in the various activities planned in addition to the scientific program. Yellowknife has hosted 3 national CPHA conferences and promises a good time in the ‘land of the midnight sun’!
Contact
Isaac Sobol MD, CCFP,
MHSc.
Chief Medical Officer of
Health
Government of Nunavut
Department of Health and Social
Services
Box 1000, Station 1000
Iqaluit, Nunavut
X0A
0H0
Tel.: 867.975.5774
Fax: 867.975.5755
Email: isobol@gov.nu.ca
Jill Christensen
Tel.: 867.920.6504
Email: Jill_Christensen@gov.nt.ca