On Aug. 17, Admiral Randall Gardner, Chief Engineering Officer for the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), visited ANTHC to present the Cumming Award to the Division of Environmental Health & Engineering’s Engineering Services group. This award recognizes outstanding contributions in public health engineering and science and is named in honor of former Surgeon General Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, USPHS. ANTHC was awarded the plaque in 2005 in recognition of the Alaska Rural Utility Cooperative’s (ARUC’s) Rural Utility Cooperative Demonstration Project. ...

Last week, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price met with Tribal leaders from across the state, hosted by ANTHC. The visit marked Secretary Price’s first trip to Alaska and offered the opportunity to learn more about our Tribal health system, partnership with the Indian Health Service and health care challenges facing Alaska Native people. These vary throughout the state, but with every region represented, Secretary Price heard about the importance of federal funding for health care and aging ...

On the north bank of the Kuskokwim River, 401 miles from Anchorage, lies the community of Oscarville, Alaska. In December 2014, the Oscarville Traditional Council volunteered the village to serve as the pilot community for the implementation of a holistic approach project, with the goal of creating healthy, thriving and sustainable communities by bringing together important communal pieces, including culture, housing, energy, infrastructure, water/sewer, community health and economic development. Oscarville’s candidacy for the pilot project stemmed from the sanitation, environmental ...