Researchers´ Profiles - Susan Chatwood

Susan Chatwood is the Executive and Scientific Director of the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research in Yellowknife www.ichr.ca, Northwest Territories and Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of British Columbia and holds a Masters in Epidemiology from McGill University.

Susan has an interest in building sustainable health research capacity in northern regions. She has spent most of her career in remote and northern communities, working in the clinical setting, public health and research. She sits on the board of directors for the Research Network of the Northwest FASD partnership www.cnfasdpartnership.ca and is a member of the FASD Network Action Team specific to FASD prevention www.canfasd.ca/networkActionTeams/womens-health-determinants.aspx. She is President of the Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health www.csch.ca and helped establish the Northern Cochrane Network Site www.cochrane.org, and currently serves as territorial Co-representative.

Her current projects within the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research include the development of research infrastructure within the Arctic Research Infrastructure Program www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nth/st/arf-eng.asp and the establishment of a data center which will include a branch office of Statistics Canada Regional Data Center www.statcan.gc.ca/rdc-cdr/network-reseau-eng.htm and Circumpolar Health Observatory circhob.circumpolarhealth.org. Other activities include projects related to the development of ethical guidelines in the Northwest Territories, knowledge synthesis and dissemination of evidence for northern populations, participatory projects with a focus on community wellness www.youtube.com/ichrca and the facilitation of a number of research projects and related activities in the Northwest Territories.

email: Susan.chatwood@ichr.ca