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UAA. Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies administrative records

University of Alaska Anchorage Records
Guide to the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies administrative records
1983-1990

Collection number: UAA-0086.
Creating office: University of Alaska Anchorage. Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies.
Series title: UAA. Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies administrative records.
Dates: 1983-1990.
Volume of series: 2.0 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Collection materials are in English.
Series summary: Administrative and functional records of a health research institute.

Administrative history:
The Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies (ICHS) was created by the Alaska State Legislature in 1998. ICSH works collaboratively with government agencies, Alaska Native health organizations, and Alaskan communities and also provides professional development and training in health-related issues.  The Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies is also housed at ICHS.

Agency functions:
The mission of ICHS is to “to improve the health of peoples of Alaska and other circumpolar areas through instruction, information services, and basic and applied research in health and medicine.”  ICSH works collaboratively with government agencies, Alaska Native health organizations, and Alaskan communities and also provides professional development and training in health-related issues.

Series description:
This collection consists of the administrative and organizational records of ICHS.

Arrangement: Records are generally arranged by record type, thereunder chronologically.

Digitized copies: This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.

Preferred citation: UAA. Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies administrative records, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Current records: More current records can be accessed at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies.

Custodial history: These materials were transferred to the Archives in 1996 and 1998 by Dr. Ted Mala.

Processing information: This collection was originally arranged and described by Jeffrey Sinnott. The finding aid was updated to meet current standard by Arlene Schmuland in 2019. The materials were rehoused and non-university and non-permanent records removed at that time. ICHS publications were moved into a separate records series as were the photographs.

Container list:

Box/Folder Description Dates
1/1-4 Proposal and planning documents 1988
1/5-8 Meeting records 1988
1/9-17 Correspondence 1983-1990
1/18-21 Project proposals 1986-1988
1/22-30 Agreements 1986-1990
1/31-37 Conference and symposia records 1987-1990
1/38 Legislative resolutions and citations 1987, 1990
2/1 File codes 1988
2/2 Budget documents 1988-1989
2/3 Stationery and office location map 1988
2/4-5 Notices and invitations 1987-1990
2/6 News releases and wire stories 1986-1989
2/7-10 Telephone message books 1986-1988
2/11 University of Alaska delegation trip to Novosibirsk records 1987
2/12 Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences visit to Alaska records 1987
2/13 Canadian and Soviet medical delegations visit to Alaska (in connection with the signing of the Alaska-Siberia-Canada Medical Exchange Agreement) records 1988
2/14 Alaska Student tour to Siberia records 1988
2/15 Soviet far east trip report 1988
2/16 Meeting of collaboration between the Institute of Internal Medicine SB AMS USSR and University of Alaska, Novosibirsk records 1988
2/17 Alaska trade and friendship mission to the Soviet far east records 1988
2/18 Soviet visit to Anchorage records 1989
2/19 Bering Bridge expedition records 1989
2/20 First annual medical/biological expedition to the Magadan/Chukotka region records 1988-1989
2/21 Vladimir Fedorovich Petrovsky, USSR Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the United States, visit

to University of Alaska Anchorage records

1989
2/22 Second Alaska-Magadan medical expedition records 1990
2/23-25 General travel records, itineraries, schedules, background papers 1984-1990
2/26 Unidentified Russian language documents 1986-1989
2/27-35,

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University of Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program administrative records 1985-1988
2/36-37 University of Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program artifacts 1986-1987

 

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