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From Opioids to COVID to Sex Ed: How Public Health Education Impacts Anchorage

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花季传媒 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.

Pineda and her staff celebrate Go Blue Day at the Anchorage Health Department. Read More

UAA M.P.H. alumna leads Anchorage Health Department

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In 2002, after a phone interview with Boys and Girls Club of Alaska (BGC), UAA alumna Natasha Pineda bought a backpack and a pair of boots, booked a ticket out of PDX to Anchorage for what she calls, 鈥渁 classic Alaska story.鈥� The M.P.H. 鈥�15 grad worked for BGC for a couple of years, ended up returning to Portland before moving to Mexico to live with her dad when she decided it was time to get serious about her career.

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