List of Contributors

Tine Aagaard is a researcher at the Greenland Center for Health Research and Assistant Professor in the Institute of Nursing and Health Science at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland in Nuuk, Greenland. 

Marnie Bell, RN, BN, MHS (Leadership), is the Principal of Marnie Bell Consulting in Yellowknife, NT, Canada.

Lois Berry, RN, BSN, MCEd, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Interim Vice-Provost, Health in Health Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Lalita Bharadwaj is a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Angela Bowen, RN PhD, is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.

Catherine Bradbury, RN, BScN, MEd – Chair, in the School of Health, Education and Human Services at Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

Lori Bradford is a Research Scientist in the School of Environment and Sustainability and School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. 

Julie Bull is a Research Methods Specialist at The Centre or Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. 

Lorna Butler is the Dean of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Elizabeth Cooper is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Heath Sciences at the University of the Fraser Valley in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

Sheila Cruz, MS RN, is an instructor in the Nursing Program at the Education & Training Division, Aurora College, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Brenda Dawyduk, RN NP MSc, is a nursing instructor at the University College of the North in Manitoba, Canada.

Nikolay Diachkovsky is Head of the Department for Higher Education in Nursing at the Institute of Medicine, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Russia.

Kim Diamond, RN, BScN, M.Ad.Ed., is the Instructor/Coordinator Health Care Assistant Program at the School of Health Education and Human Services, Yukon College, in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

Michelle Driedger is a Professor in the department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Kerry Lynn Durnford, RN, MN, EdD Candidate, is a senior instructor of the BSN program at the School of Health and Human Services, Aurora College, in Yellowknife, NT, Canada.

Tiina Ervelius, MnSc, RN, student counselor, project manager, is a Senior Lecturer at Diaconia University of Applied Sciences in Finland.

Heather Exner-Pirot is a Strategist for Outreach and Indigenous Engagement at the University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing in Saskatoon, Canada.

Heather Fikowski, MSW RSW, is an instructor of Social Work, Health & Human Services Programs at Aurora College, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Christopher Fletcher is affiliated with the Department of Social Medicine and Prevention, University Laval, Québec City, Québec.

Leana Garraway is the Research Associate in the Nursing Practice in Rural and Remote Canada II study at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada.

Tonje Haanæs-Rensberg is a student at the faculty of Health Science, the Arctic University of Norway, and a member of Saanti jih Ruvhten Sijte in Sweden.

Sigridur Halldorsdottir, RN, MSN, PhD (Med. Dr.) is a Professor at the School of Health Sciences, University of Akureyri, Iceland.

Eino Honkala is a Professor of Cariology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and emeritus Professor of Dental Public Health at University of Turku, Finland.

Sisko Honkala is a Professor of Community & Geriatric Dentistry at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Docent (Oral Public Health) at University of Helsinki, Finland.

Outi Hyry-Honka is the director of the School of Social Services, Health, and Sports, at the Lapland University of Applied Sciences in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Jan Inman, BSN, RN, is the Director of Professional Conduct at the Registered Nurses Association of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Cynthia (Cindy) Jardine is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health and Community at the University of the Fraser Valley in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

Steinunn Jónatansdóttir is a doctoral student in Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada.

Michael Jong is a northern rural family physician and professor of family medicine at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Eija Jumisko is the head of education in the School of Social Services, Health and Sports, at the Lapland University of Applied Sciences in Rovaniemi, Finland. 

Paivi Juuso is a senior lecturer and the international coordinator in the division of Nursing Care in the Department of Health Sciences at Luleå University of Technology in Luleå, Sweden.

Siv Kvernmo is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in Norway.

Sabrina-Ayesha Lakhani, B.Sc, is a Research Coordinator at Aurora Research Institute, Aurora College in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Laurie-Ann Lines is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation in the Northwest Territories, Canada, and a PhD student in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Marie-Claude Lyonnais is affiliated with the Department of Social Medicine and Prevention, University Laval, Québec City, Québec.

Martha MacLeod is a Professor and the Northern Health – UNBC Knowledge Mobilization Research Chair at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada.

Geoffrey Maina is an assistant professor in the College of Nursing, Prince Albert Campus, at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. 

Grete Mehus, PhD, RN, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health and Care Sciences, and the Head of Research Group Rural and Remote Nursing and Healthcare in Arctic and North-Sami Area at the University of Tromso, The Arctic University of Norway in Tromso, Norway.

Pertice Moffitt, PhD RN, is the manager of Health Research Programs at Aurora Research Institute, Aurora College in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Snefrid Møllersen is a clinical psychologist and researcher at the Sámi Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Mental Health and Abuse (SANKS), Finnmark Hospital Trust, in Norway.

Gert Mulvad is a family physician at the Centre for Primary Health in Nuuk, Greenland. 

Rachel Munday, MNP, is the Nurse in Charge at Aklavik Community Health Centre in Northwest Territories, Canada.

Bente Norbye is the leader of the research group of Health Professional Education and a professor at the Centre for Faculty Development in the Department of Health and Care Sciences at UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Tromso, Norway.

Aleksandra Obutova is the Deputy Chief Physician at the Phthisiatry Research-Practice Center, in Sakha (Republic) Yakutia, Russia.

Carrie Pratt, RN MN (Cand), is a Registered Nurse in the Saskatchewan Health Authority and a graduate student in the College of Nursing at University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Lea Rättyä, PhD, MTh, RH, deaconess, is a Regional Coordinator at Diaconia University of Applied Sciences in Finland.

Sirkka Saranki-Rantakokko is the principal lecturer and coordinator of R&D coaching the Lapland University of Applied Sciences in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Sigrun Sigurdardottir, RN, MSc, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Faculty of Graduate Studies in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Akureyri in Akureyri, Iceland.

Susan Starks, RN, BScN, MSc Community Health, is the Instructor/Coordinator of the Practical Nurse Program in the School of Health Education and Human Services at Yukon College, Whitehorse, Yukon.

Yury Sumarokov, MD, PhD, is affiliated with the Northern State Medical University in Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation.