The management and affairs of the Alaska Public Health Association are under the direction of the Board of Directors. The Officers for the organization are the President, President-Elect, Immediate Past President, Affiliate Representative to the APHA Governing Council, Secretary and Treasurer. The President-Elect is elected prior to the annual meeting of the organization. The Secretary and Treasurer are elected from the twelve elective members at the first Executive Board meeting following the annual meeting. Term of office for the Executive Board Members is three (3) years each.
Leif Albertson, President
Term Expires: 2013
Leif Albertson is the UAF Cooperative Extension Agent for the Bethel-Yukon Kuskokwim District. At the Cooperative Extension Service (CES), Leif works to interpret and extend relevant university, research-based knowledge in an understandable and usable form to the public. As UAF faculty much of his current work focuses on environmental health and housing issues in rural/remote Alaska. Prior to the Cooperative Extension Service, Leif worked for the State of Alaska Division of Public Health and the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation. Leif is an active volunteer with the Bethel Fire Department. Leif grew up in Anchorage and has resided in Bethel since 2002.
Term Expires: 2015
Masayo the Nurse Manager at the Juneau Public Health Center where she directs field based services, providing home visiting services to high risk families and collaborating with community agencies. Last year, Masayo received a public health nursing grant from the Alaska Nurses Foundation to promote the importance of well child care in Juneau, focusing especially on uninsured and underinsured children. Masayo has worked as a public health nurse at the Juneau Public Health Center since July 2007. Before that, she earned her Master of Science in Nursing (International Nursing) and Master in Public Health (global health) from Emory University. For her graduate thesis work, Masayo spent part of two summers researching nursing skills competency in the Republic of Georgia.
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Term Expires: 2013
Sheila Soule, M.Ed. is the Special Projects Director for Health Programs at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. She holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology and a Masters degree in Gerontology and Adult Education from the University of Central Oklahoma, and is a current student in the Masters in Public Health program at UAA. Before moving to the Health Programs office, Ms. Soule was the project coordinator for the Alaska Geriatric Education Center at UAA, and has worked with seniors in a variety of settings, from direct service in long-term care to higher education in geriatrics and gerontology. She also sits on the Municipality of Anchorage Senior Citizens Advisory Commission, Day Break Adult Day Center Advisory Board, and the Alaska Geriatric Education Center Statewide Advisory Board.
Regan Mattingly, Affiliate Representative to the APHA Governing Council
Term Expires: 2013
Regan lived in Fairbanks for 8 years and for the last 21 years, has resided in Anchorage. He graduated from Dimond High School and then obtained a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in International Political Economics from the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
Regan began working with the Alaska Legislature as the Government Relations Director for the Union of Student at the University of Alaska in 2005. After graduating from UAA, Regan began working for the Alaska Primary Care Association (APCA) as the State Affairs Coordinator. In this role, Regan has worked to develop Legislative Priorities and Resolutions by working with all APCA stakeholders to determine what state policy issues are most important to the APCA membership which includes Community Health Centers and other safety net providers.
With over five years of experience working with state and federal policy makers, Regan has developed valuable legislative expertise that will be beneficial to achieving ALPHA’s public policy goals. Regan is enthusiastic, hard working and well prepared to support the advancement of public health to promote improved health and quality of life for Alaskans.
David Driscoll, Director
Term Expires: 2013
Dr. Driscoll is Director of the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He has published widely on the application of interdisciplinary and mixed method research designs to assess and mitigate social and physical determinants of population health. Dr. Driscoll conducts research that combines anthropological and epidemiological methods to develop and evaluate evidence-based risk communication, health promotion, and disease prevention interventions for culturally-distinct communities across Alaska and the circumpolar north.
Jayne Andreen, Director
Term Expires: 2015
Jayne Andreen has worked with the Alaska Division of Public Health in Health Promotion since 1999, which has community based health promotion, unintentional injury, school health, sexual and intimate partner violence prevention, obesity prevention and control, and tobacco prevention and control. She is a past President of the Alaska Health Education Consortium, the Alaska Public Health Association, and the national Directors of Health Promotion and Education. Her current responsibilities focus on providing training, technical assistance and consultation on community organizing and development, community health assessment, planning and evaluation, injury prevention, and health policy and environmental change. Jayne is a national trainer for the Shaping Policy for Health curriculum developed by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In addition to public health, Jayne has 16 years of experience in community development, policy and environmental change, and advocacy in the domestic violence and sexual assault arenas. She has a BA in Psychology/Counseling from Winona State University, and is a graduate of the Public Health Education Leadership Institute.
Katy Krings, Director
Term Expires: 2015
Katy is a public health nurse for the State of Alaska, Division of Public Health. Since 2010, she has been providing itinerant nursing services for the villages of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region. Although she is a generalist PHN, much of her work is related to case management of clients receiving tuberculosis treatment. Prior to coming to Alaska, Katy lived in Colorado where she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Colorado. She is currently enrolled full-time in the online Master of Public Health program at the University of New England. Katy has a passion for promotion of health equity for Alaskans, and she is excited to be actively involved in ALPHA.
Lisa Aquino, Director
Term Expires: 2015
Lisa grew up and went to high school in Anchorage, and returned after graduate school. She received her BS in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles and my Masters in Health Science in International Health, Disease Prevention and Control from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Since graduate school, Lisa has worked for 7 years for the State of Alaska, Division of Public Health. During that time she: originated the position of Data and Evaluation Lead with the Diabetes Program; managed the Arthritis Program; was the Data and Evaluation Lead with the Tobacco Program; and was the manager of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. In 2008, Lisa moved to Cape Town, South Africa. While there, she worked for the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, as the Youth Program Leader. One major project Lisa accomplished there was the Desmond Tutu HIV Prevention Youth Centre. Lisa is currently back in Anchorage and serving as the Community Health Improvement Manager for SOA Public Health. One major project she oversees is Healthy Alaskans 2020. Her work and passion are public health. The Alaska Public Health Association has an important role to fill in terms of public health in this state and Lisa is very glad to be a part of it.
Litia Garrison, Director
Term Expires: 2014
Litia Garrison is the current Women’s Health Program Director at the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, (SEARHC) overseeing the CDC-funded NBCCEDP, WISEWOMAN, Traditional Foods, and Colorectal Cancer Screening Programs. She earned a B.Sc. in Biology from Bucknell University, and is in the final stages of completing her MPH in Public Health Practice from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Litia is particularly interested in reducing health disparities through screening, prevention, and access to care, and was recently asked to serve on the national Exercise is Medicine – Underserved Populations Committee for the American College of Sports Medicine. Litia has lived in Southeast Alaska with her family for 25 years, including spending about a dozen years living at remote field camps and salmon hatcheries.
Jay Butler, Director
Term Expires: 2014
Jay Butler, MD, CPE is Senior Director of the Division of Community Health Services at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage. Previously, he was Chief Medical Officer of Alaska from 2007 to 2009, Alaska State Epidemiologist, 2005-07, Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Arctic Investigations Program, 1998-2005, and medical epidemiologist in CDC’s National Center for Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, 1991-98. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Medical School, completed clinical training at Vanderbilt and Emory Universities, and is board certified in infectious diseases, internal medical, and pediatrics. His varied professional experiences include working as a physician for two months at a mission hospital in Kenya, leading the CDC field response to the initial Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome outbreak in the US in 1993, and serving as the CDC liaison to FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC during in the investigation of the anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001. He was a team co-leader during the CDC responses to the SARS outbreak of 2003, avian influenza in 2004, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. He was governor of the Alaska chapter of the American College of Physicians from 2005 to 2009.
Andrea Fenaughty, Director
Term Expires: 2015
Andrea Fenaughty has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Arizona State University, and did her post-doctoral training in Alcohol and Addiction Studies at University of Alaska Anchorage. Dr. Fenaughty has been working for the Alaska Division of Public Health since 2002, and currently serves dual roles as both the Chronic Disease Epidemiologist and the Deputy Section Chief for the Section of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. She has co-authored numerous technical reports and presented to policy makers, health professionals and the public on the burden of obesity, tobacco use, and their related chronic conditions in Alaska. Andrea sees surveillance and evaluation as powerful tools that can be used to improve public health programs and, ultimately, the quality of life of Alaskans.
, Director
Term Expires: 2013
Shah is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s in Public Health, and has 20+ years of experience in the health field. He is currently the Regional Officer in Charge for the CDC Quarantine Stations in the Western United States. In this capacity, he conducts cross agency public health preparedness and response planning, carries out trainings, and implements the mission of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch (QBHSB), which is to prevent the introduction and spread of communicable diseases into the United States. Prior to his current position, shah served as the Senior Advisor for International Affairs in the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) at CDC. In this capacity, he provided strategic and operational advice on international affairs issues. Before working at CDC, Mr. Roohi served as a Program Director at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) where he managed a variety of surveillance and epidemiology projects for this national association of public health epidemiologists.
Term Expires: 2013
Tina Woods is the acting Director of Behavioral Health for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. She is Unungan (Aleut) originally from St. Paul Island, AK. She is the proud mother of a 10 year old daughter- Jasmine and a 5 month old son- Hunter. She is married to Daniel Woods, Koyukon Athabascan of Rampart. She is currently a full-time doctoral student in the Clinical-Community Psychology Ph.D. program with a Rural Indigenous Emphasis. Prior to this, Tina was the Wellness Program Director for the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association for five years. Her passion revolves around culturally responsive behavioral health care for all Alaska Native people with a special focus on talking circles, mind, body, and spirit.
