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Media Inquiries: Please contact Vicki Nechodomu, College of Health communications director, at vnechodomu@alaska.edu. The College of Health is happy to assist journalists and organizations with interview and speaking engagement logistics.

Subject Matter Experts

The College of Health offers working journalists and organizations access to subject matter experts in a wide variety of health and justice issues facing Alaska today.  If you do not see the topic you are covering listed below, please contact Vicki Nechodomu, College of Health communications director, at vnechodomu@alaska.edu for more information and interview options. 

• Arctic/Environmental Health

  Micah Hahn

  Assistant Professor of Environmental Health
  Institute of Circumpolar Health Studies 

• Avalanche Education

  T.J. Miller

  Director & Assistant Professor
  Dept. of Health, Physical Education & Recreation

• Climate Change

  Micah Hahn

  Assistant Professor of Environmental Health
  Institute of Circumpolar Health Studies 

• Data & Justice

  Brad A. Mystrol
  Director & Associate Professor
  Justice Center
   

  Troy C. Payne
  Associate Professor, Justice Center
  Director, Alaska Justice Information Center

• Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault

  Angelina Trujillo

  Associate Professor
  School of Nursing
  
  

  Ingrid Diane Johnson

  Assistant Professor

  Justice Center

• Food and Nutrition, Food Systems & Food Security

  Amanda Walch

  Assistant Professor of Dietetics & Nutrition
  Department of Dietetics & Nutrition
  

  Specialty areas: food security, food and nutrition
  
  

  Carrie King

  Professor of Dietetics & Nutrition
  Department of Dietetics & Nutrition

  Specialty areas: culinary medicine, culinary literacy, diabetes, evidence-based practice, practice-based research

  Leslie Redmond

  Assistant Professor of Dietetics & Nutrition
  Department of Dietetics & Nutrition

  Specialty areas: public health, nutrition and physical activity, health promotion and intervention
  
  Melissa Clupach

  Assistant Professor of Dietetics & Nutrition
  Department of Dietetics & Nutrition

  Specialty areas: traditional/indigenous foods, food services/management

  Elizabeth Hodges Synder

  Associate Professor of Public Health

  Institute of Circumpolar Health Studies 
  Specialty areas: Food systems, food security

• Homelessness

  David Moxley

  Professor & Director

  School of Social Work

• Public Safety

  Brad A. Mystrol
  Director & Associate Professor
  Justice Center 

• Recreation, Outdoor Recreation, Physical Education

  TJ Miller

  Director & Assistant Professor
  Dept. of Health, Physical Education & Recreation

• Rural Healthcare Delivery

  Gloria Burnett

  Director
  Alaska Center for Rural Health & Health Workforce