CANHelp Working Group www.canhelpworkinggroup.ca

CANHelp Working Group www.canhelpworkinggroup.ca Responding to community concerns, the CANHelp Working Group formed to investigate health risks from Helicobacter pylori infection in the Canadian Arctic.

(For who we are, click About, Description, See More) The Canadian North Helicobacter pylori (CANHelp) Working Group conducts community-driven research in northern Canadian Aboriginal communities to address concerns about H. pylori infection, a chronic bacterial infection that causes peptic ulcer disease and stomach cancer. This highly collaborative endeavour depends on strong and sustained interdi

sciplinary and intersectoral partnerships. Partners include: community members and governance organizations, healthcare providers, researchers, and health research networks. Director & Lead Investigator
Karen J Goodman, Epidemiologist, University of Alberta

Working Group Members
Laura Aplin, Fieldwork Management Lead, University of Alberta
Billy Archie, Aklavik Community Member
Diane Archie, Community Development Director, Invuvialuit Regional Corporation
Robert Bailey, Director, Northern Health Services Network
Hsiu-Ju Chang, Research Administration Lead, University of Alberta
Susan Chatwood, Director, Institute for Circumpolar Health Research
Darius Elias, Old Crow Member of the Legislative Assembly, Yukon
Richard Fedorak, Associate Vice-President (Research), University of Alberta
Christopher Fletcher, Anthropologist, Laval University
Brendan Hanley, Chief Medical Officer of Health, Yukon
Kami Kandola, Chief Public Health Officer, Government of NWT
Monika Keelan, Microbiologist, University of Alberta
John Morse, former Medical Director, Stanton Territorial Health Authority
Rachel Munday, Nurse-In-Charge, Aklavik Health Centre
Leah Seaman, Public Health Physician, Inuvik Regional Hospital
Sander van Zanten, Gastroenterologist, University of Alberta
Jody Butler Walker, Director, Arctic Institute for Community-based Research
Yutaka Yasui, Biostatistician, University of Alberta

Trainees
Public Health: Amy Colquhoun, Katharine Fagan-Garcia, Janis Geary, Emily Hastings, Kate Williams, Megan Lefebvre, Monica Sierra, Ashley Wynne
Gastroenterology: Justin Cheung, Amy Morse
Microbiology: Maysoon Mahmoud
Anthropology: Sally Carraher

Dr Sander van Zanten is retiring and Dr Karen Goodman is collecting comments of appreciation for his work. As many of yo...
01/24/2024

Dr Sander van Zanten is retiring and Dr Karen Goodman is collecting comments of appreciation for his work. As many of you may remember, this work includes being Lead Gastroenterologist for the CANHelp Working Group, where he took many trips to northern communities to do scope tests on folks and speak to patients and whole communities about stomach health.

If you have any kind words you’d like to pass along, please do so here: https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/CV3pDnY5

His retirement celebration is January 26, when comments may be shared, but otherwise please submit comments at your convenience for Dr van Zanten directly.

Kudoboard is an online replacement for the greeting card that you pass around and sign!

Check out our paper on H. pylori disease burden! Over the years these results have been disseminated and discussed in th...
06/12/2019

Check out our paper on H. pylori disease burden! Over the years these results have been disseminated and discussed in the communities and at scientific meetings, but this is the first publication from our work reporting H. pylori prevalence and related disease burden.

And as always, let us know if you have any questions!

Indigenous communities across the circumpolar north have elevated H. pylori (Hp) prevalence and stomach cancer incidence. We aimed to describe the Hp-associated disease burden among western Canadian Arctic participants in community-driven projects that address concerns about health risks from Hp inf...

Learn about bacteria and other causes of disease in this short animated video!
09/05/2018

Learn about bacteria and other causes of disease in this short animated video!

Learn about bacteria and other causes of disease in this short video!

Since Helicobacters are bacteria, we created a short video to help explain what "bacteria" are.And we gave it a little n...
03/09/2018

Since Helicobacters are bacteria, we created a short video to help explain what "bacteria" are.

And we gave it a little northern flare as well :)

Check it out!

Here's an opportunity for Indigenous students and community members to participate in a workshop in Vancouver in the sum...
02/27/2018

Here's an opportunity for Indigenous students and community members to participate in a workshop in Vancouver in the summer:

Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics Canada

SING Canada’s inaugural week-long program will take place from 29 July – 4 August 2018 at Simon Fraser University. Organized around the theme of Conservation and Health Genomics, Indigenous participants will be led by a multi-disciplinary team of faculty members in investigating the role of geno...

Even the H. pylori stuffed toys are getting into the holiday spirit around the CANHelp Working Group office.
12/19/2017

Even the H. pylori stuffed toys are getting into the holiday spirit around the CANHelp Working Group office.

11/28/2017

People in Inuvik asked us to share some information about what the breath test is, so we made a video!

If you'd like to join the Inuvik ISR H. pylori Project, book an appointment with Kathy at 678-5291. We are recruiting participants until December 15th.

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