Over the last two years of the Tribal Epidemiology Centers Public Health Infrastructure (TECPHI) Program, the Network Coordinating Center (NCC) has partnered with Dr. Charlotte Huntley to facilitate 24 TEC-specific episodes for her “Public Health Epidemiology Conversations” Podcast. Each of these podcast episodes features a TEC staff sharing their career path and work at one of the 12 TECs.

One of these conversations featured the new CDC Director of Healthy Tribes, Dr. Julianna Reece to complete the collection. The podcast episodes have been a fun and impactful way to spread awareness of the services and expertise offered by the TECs. The episodes have received many positive reviews that emphasize the value they have had to listeners.

 

One reviewer said “Thank you for these episodes on native health because representation matters! Kudos for the outstanding work you are doing” and another shared “I loved your episode with Joshua and the discussion about the importance of communication and health surveillance data in the tribal communities. The data sharing toolkit he talked about gave me an idea for something I can try with my community. I think I’m going to discuss it with my supervisor.”

 

For more information about Dr. Huntley and her podcast, visit https://www.drchhuntley.com/about.

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View/Listen to more TEC related podcasts from Dr. Huntley HERE.

Healthy Alaskans provides a framework for health improvement. Every decade, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and Alaska Department of Health work together to identify the state’s health priorities and set new targets. The team released its first annual scorecards showing progress made toward reaching the goals of Healthy Alaskans 2030 –the statewide health improvement plan outlining health outcomes for Alaska to reach by the year 2030.

Using data compiled and analyzed by ANTHC’s Alaska Native Epidemiology Center (ANEC), the most recent progress summary on Healthy Alaskans 2030 objectives (for 2018-2021 data) shared that of the 30 health objectives listed on the Alaska Native population scorecard one met or surpassed the target (“Percentage of adults who could not afford to see a doctor in the last 12 months,” which went down from 15.3% in 2018 to 88.1% in 2019), 11 others showed improvement from baseline.

 

Healthy Alaskans is the only state health improvement plan in the nation co-led by a state and Tribal partnership and, as stated by Valerie Nurr’araluk Davidson, President/CEO of ANTHC, “These achievements translate into safer and healthier kids, stronger families, and vibrant communities.”

 

To learn more about Healthy Alaskans, click HERE.

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