Public health research and practice in Greenland

Abstract

In the company of a big pot of tea and the mosquitoes of the northern summer night, I endeavour to undertake the audacious task of tracing the red thread that led me to a career in circumpolar health and the honour of receiving the Hildes medal. Nothing was written in the stars that pointed in that direction, except perhaps the strolls in my early childhood neighbourhood that often took me past a monument of the successful, yet ill-fated, Danmark-expedition of 1906–08.