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Canada: Anisnabe Kekendazone - Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research (AK-NEAHR) [formerly ACADRE]
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Anisnabe Kekendazone - Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research (AK-NEAHR) [formerly ACADRE]
 
The Anisnabe Kekendazone (original knowledge) Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research (AK-NEAHR, formerly ACADRE) supports training of First Nations, Métis and Inuit health researchers through fellowships and seed grants at masters, doctoral and post-doctoral levels. The fund also helps First Nations, Métis and Inuit health researchers take part in national and international health research that is relevant to the well-being of Aboriginal communities and attuned to their worldview. Funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research -Institute of Aboriginal People’s Health, nine NEARH centres form a national network that helps to increase the impact of Aboriginal health research in Canada. CIETcanada, partnered with 52 researchers from the Universities of Ottawa, Montréal, McGill, Carleton, Queen's and Alberta, and from several Aboriginal organizations across Canada, won a three-year renewable grant to run the AK-NEAHR until 2010.

As of November 2009, the AK-NEAHR had awarded 25 fellowships to First Nations, Métis and Inuit health researchers and had invested over $10 million in successful research grants.

An all-Aboriginal advisory board reviews all research proposals and decides on funding, with technical input from CIET and its academic partners. The board is made up of the five national Aboriginal organizations: Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP), Métis National Council (MNC), Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) and Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC).

The AK-NEAHR focuses on First Nations, Métis and Inuit health issues of national relevance, emphasizing primary prevention (building individual and community well-being and reducing the risk of health threats), evaluation of interventions, and translation of research findings for use by communities, policy makers and health services.  The centre also features research linking modern science and indigenous knowledge in fields ranging from traditional medicine to community-based resilience to sexual violence and HIV/AIDS. The AK-NEAHR also hosts the Inuit Institute for Research and Planning, the first Inuit-oriented academic effort of its kind in Canada. 

For more information on grants and fellowships, please visit the McGill-based administrating centre for the AK-NEAHR.

If you want to know more about ACADRE researchers and their experiences, please click here.