Category: Health Training and Education
ANTHC is committed to strengthening our Alaska Native and American Indian workforce and developing future Alaska Tribal Health System leaders by offering a number of summer internships. ANTHC’s Environmental Health and Engineering interns are in the swing of a busy summer. Six interns are traveling across the state and working on a variety of projects, from energy audits to operator training. Katrina Brown, from Anchorage, is one of two interns serving in the Environmental Health and Engineering’s project management department. ...
ANTHC staff graduate leadership programs
ANTHC is committed to developing its Alaska Native and American Indian workforce. At the same time, it’s important to employ staff who are interested in continuing their education, developing professionally and gaining leadership skills. Luckily, there are plenty of determined professionals in our Native community working to help achieve ANTHC’s vision that Alaska Native people are the healthiest people in the world. Two ANTHC staff members are amongst the most recent graduates from Alaska Pacific University’s (APU) Alaska Native Executive ...
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is pleased to partner with the World Hepatitis Alliance to host the Second World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Viral Hepatitis, Aug. 8-9 in Anchorage at Alaska Pacific University. The conference will welcome Indigenous peoples and providers from across the globe to further the conversation on viral hepatitis in Indigenous communities. The event is led by Indigenous people and is designed for Indigenous peoples, clinicians, and those working in Indigenous health, including the Alaska Tribal ...
Thomas Norris, ANTHC Apprentice Electrician, recently passed the State of Alaska Certificate of Fitness Exam for Electrical Journeyman, making him the first graduate of the ANTHC Environmental Health and Engineering Apprenticeship Program. This program was developed in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship and Alaska Vocational Technical Related Studies Program. The four-year program requires 8,000 hours of on-the-job learning, in addition to many required hours of instruction. During his time as an apprentice, Norris worked on ...
ANTHC is committed to strengthening our Alaska Native and American Indian workforce and developing future Alaska Tribal Health System leaders. Last summer, Karolyn Ceron from Kodiak worked as a First Alaskans Institute Intern in ANTHC’s Wellness and Prevention department and Alaska Native Epidemiology Center (EpiCenter). During her internship, she helped support both departments in a number of ways including preparing for the Alaskan Plants as Food & Medicine Symposium and conducting a literature review about behavioral economics and incentivizing patient ...
ANTHC staff with the Alaska Native Epidemiology Center participated in and provided technical assistance at a multi-day gathering Jan. 17-19 in Bethel. This event was sponsored by the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation’s Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative project, Calricaraq. This homegrown program funded by the Indian Health Service aims to stimulate discussion and reflection on trauma, specifically substance abuse, suicide and violence. It draws on the wisdom of Elders, Yup’ik values, and stories of overcoming trauma from staff, Elders and other ...