Centre for Arctic Medicine announces the 5th International Kastelli Symposium, Wellbeing and health in the Northern focus
The symposium provides a forum for interdisciplinary interaction and exchange of knowledge related to health and wellbeing in the Northern environment and societies.
Participants representing clinical medicine, biomedicine, physiology, health sciences, linguistics, social sciences, anthropology, and everyone studying different aspects of life in the North are welcome to the Symposium.
The symposium is part of the Thematic Network on Arctic Medicine and is organized by
• Graduate School of Circumpolar Wellbeing, Health and Adaptation
• Centre for Arctic Medicine, University of Oulu
• Thule Institute, University of Oulu
• The Finnish Society for Arctic Health and Biology
The symposium is held at November 24-25 2006 at Kastelli Research Centre, Oulu, Finland. First Announcement can be found here (pdf).
More information:
Dr. Hannele Säkkinen, secretary of the organizing committee,
Tel: +358 8 5376202
email: hannele.sakkinen@oulu.fi
Symposium Website: http://arctichealth.oulu.fi