IHACC team in Montreal March 8-9 to develop IHACC2 project proposal

Team gathers for a discussion on IHACC2

Members of the IHACC team were in Montreal last week to work on developing a project proposal for phase two of the IHACC project, planning for another five years of work as phase one comes to an end this year. Team members from Canada, Uganda and South Africa were at the table at the McGill Faculty Club in this first meeting of the proposal development stage, including Dr. James Ford and Dr. Lea Berrang-Ford, Dr. Sherilee Harper, Dr. Shuaib Lwasa, Dr. Mark New, Mr. Didacus Namanya, and Ms. Michelle Maillet. Canadian team members will soon head to Peru to meet with the team there and work on finalizing the proposal later this spring. Keep an eye out for more news on plans for phase two of the project as the team continues to build the proposal.

Kaitlyn Finner trip to Rigolet

Kaitlyn Finner spent the past week in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut sharing the findings of her Masters research with residents of the Labrador community.

From May 2013 to May 2014, community members participated in photo card interviews and four sets of food inventories to assist the research team in characterizing Rigolet’s food system.

Pamphlets describing the project and its findings were shared with all households in the community and an open house was held on February 25th. Despite stormy weather over 50 residents stopped by for a bowl of soup, and to hear more and discuss the project!

The project in numbers: 16 Weeks of food inventories 27 Households 48 Participants 72 Photo cards 1,051 Wild food entries 14,969 Store food items

Ashlee Cunsolo Willox and Anna Bruce featured in Adjacent Government

Featured on Adjacent Government, Ashlee Cunsolo Willox and Anna Bruce present a new piece on gendered dimensions of climate change and mental health. To read the piece, entitled The gender dimensions of climate change and mental health, click here for the pdf or here to go to the website.

New piece on gendered dimensions of #climatechange & #mentalhealth in @Adjacent_Gov with @AnnaBunce: https://t.co/U13Fc1PlVG

— Ashlee CunsoloWillox (@CunsoloWillox) February 9, 2016

Notes from the field: Carol Zavaleta's work with the Shawi Amazon Indigenous Peoples

Carol is excited to share her field report about her two trips to Peru where she worked with the Shawi Amazon Indigenous People. The two trips completed the necessary fieldwork required for Carol's PhD thesis. For those of you unfamiliar with Carol's work, her thesis investigates the current vulnerability of Shawi Amazon Indigenous people to food insecurity in order to identify potential adaption interventions that might mitigate risks to climate change. Carol's field report touches on a variety of pertinent discussions surrounding the appropriate conducting of fieldwork, including connecting with communities, creating meaningful relationships with guides, and incorporating members of the indigenous community into the research process.

Carol's field report also offers personal insights. As a Peruvian Medical Doctor, she could not close her eyes "to the reality of indigenous health systems" and feels that the field work was essential in evolving her "perspectives about individual and collective Indigenous well-being."

You can read the full field report here: Carol's Field Report.

Follow the IHACC team's activities at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting 2015, December 7th to 11th in Vancouver

Follow the Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change project team's activities at ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting 2015 here!

  IHACC project team members at ASM2015

Dr. James Ford
IHACC project Primary Investigator

Climate Change Adaptation Research Group
Department of Geography, McGill University

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Dr. Sherilee Harper
IHACC project Co-Investigator

EcoHealth Research with Indigenous Communities
Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph

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Anna Bunce
IHACC project Masters Student

Supervisor: Dr. James Ford
Department of Geography, McGill University

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Kaitlyn Finner
IHACC project Masters Student

Supervisor: Dr. James Ford
Department of Geography, McGill University

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Knut Tjensvoll Kitching
IHACC project Masters Student

Supervisor: Dr. James Ford
Department of Geography, McGill University

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Carlee Wright
IHACC project Masters Student

Supervisor: Dr. Sherliee Harper
Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph

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Manpreet Saini
IHACC project Masters Student

Supervisor: Dr. Sherliee Harper
Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph

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IHACC project presentations at ASM2105

Wednesday December 9th 2015   Arctic Wildlife 1 Chair: Dominique Berteaux Room: Oak 10:45 Knut Tjensvoll Kitching Tuktu and Climate Change: Inuit Hunting on Southern Baffin Island     Thursday December 10th 2015   Northern Food Security 1 Chair: Sara Statham Room: Marine 11:00 Kaitlyn Finner Food From Here There, From Us and Them; Characterizing the Food System of Rigolet, Nunatsiavut   Community Health and Well Being 2 Chair: Mylène Riva Room: Mackenzie 14:30 Manpreet Saini Participatory Methods in Rigolet: Evaluation of Inuit Health Programs and Collaborative Development of a Whiteboard Video for Health Promotion   Community Health and Well Being 3 Chair: Shelley Tulloch Room: Mackenzie 15:45 Carlee Wright Drinking Water Consumption Patterns and Changes Over Time in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut     Friday December 11th 2015   The Scoop on Northern Poop Chairs: Sherilee Harper, David Goldfarb & Cédric Yansouni Room: Mackenzie 09:30 Sherilee Harper Foodborne, Waterborne, and Zoonotic Enteric Disease: EcoHealth Surveillance for Environmental Health   Click here to access the full ArcticNet ASM2015 conference schedule  

IHACC project posters at ASM2105