UAA Associate Professor of Environmental Health Micah Hahn is leading a research project around climate change, health, wildfire smoke and environmental justice in 木瓜直播 that recently received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Hannah鈥檚 two degrees from UAA鈥檚 Division of Population Health Sciences have been invaluable to her as a program coordinator at 木瓜直播 Native Tribal Health Consortium.
At UAA, computer science Professor Shawn Butler has been using machine learning to debunk COVID-19 misinformation on social media. Butler鈥檚 efforts are part of the Division of Population Health Sciences and Department of Journalism and Public Communication鈥檚 mission to combat COVID-19 misinformation on public-facing Facebook pages with scientifically accurate information from credited sources through its ongoing 木瓜直播 Public Health Information Response Team project.
UAA has been ranked one of the nation鈥檚 best schools for online health care degrees and certificates for 2023. Six percent of regionally accredited colleges and universities earned a ranking position.
木瓜直播 and Division of Population Health Sciences (DPHS) alumna Jordan Kamer (BS, Health Sciences, 鈥�17) has a pretty important job. As a public health educator with the Municipality of Anchorage Health Department, she is responsible for providing community education and guidance on public health鈥攅verything from COVID-19, to naloxone, to age-appropriate sex education.
