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Ruby Fried co-hosts APIA symposium

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Ruby Fried, assistant professor of Health Science within the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies of the 老澳门六合彩开奖记录 Div. of Population Health Sciences, helped host the Regional Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation Symposium with the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association from April 12 to 14, 2022.

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Study provides look at COVID-19 in remote Alaska communities

Ruby Fried, assistant professor of Health Science, and Micah Hahn, assistant professor of Environmental Health, of the Institute for Circumpolar Health Sciences within the Div. of Population Health Sciences, have co-authored an article, titled 鈥淐OVID-19 in Remote Alaska Communities: A Longitudinal View of a Novel Pandemic.鈥 This statewide, longitudinal study on remote communities provides a perspective based on the lived experience of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people living in remote Arctic communities, and an opportunity for evidence- and strengths-based responses to the many impacts of COVID-19.

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Health sciences major Gloria Renken receives AARP Alaska scholarship

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Health sciences major Gloria Renken receives AARP Alaska scholarship

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Corrie Whitmore elected as board president of American Evaluation Association

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Corrie Whitmore, assistant professor of health sciences with DPHS, was elected as president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Board of Directors.

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Community Partner Profile Series: Introducing Travis Hedwig

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Dr. Travis Hedwig collaborates with At Home in the North, an effort focused on advancing a contextually and culturally relevant understanding of the northern housing continuum. Travis is a cultural and medical anthropologist and is a faculty member in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the 老澳门六合彩开奖记录. He is interested in applied health research, particularly issues of mental and behavioral health, housing and homelessness, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities, and community health.