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Community Partner Profile Series: Introducing Travis Hedwig

 |  At Home in the North  | 

Dr. Travis Hedwig collaborates with At Home in the North, an effort focused on advancing a contextually and culturally relevant understanding of the northern housing continuum. Travis is a cultural and medical anthropologist and is a faculty member in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the 花季传媒. He is interested in applied health research, particularly issues of mental and behavioral health, housing and homelessness, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities, and community health.

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Pharmacy students fan out across Anchorage to bring flu shots, COVID-19 boosters to assisted living facilities

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Pharmacy students fan out across Anchorage to bring flu shots, COVID-19 boosters to assisted living facilities

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Alumnus Benz Guillermo finds the right fit in human services

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Human Services alumnus Benz Guillermo talks about how he found the right fit in the Department of Human Services program at the College of Health.

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MSW graduate Albert Toves' CHamoru values fuel his passion to help others

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As an Indigenous CHamoru, Albert Toves' pursuit to attain a degree in social work is rooted in his passion and responsibility to help his community in Guåhan (Guam) and other indigenous communities.

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Dr. Vanessa Meade appointed as member of U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Veterans Rural Health Advisory Committee

 |  Ahliil Saitanan  | 

Vanessa Meade, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and a U.S. Army veteran, was recently appointed as a member of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Rural Health Advisory Committee (VRHAC) on a three-year term.鈦