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Archive
  • New UAA report recommends suite of COVID-19 measures to avoid overwhelming Alaska’s health care system
  • Podcast in Place: Youth Stories From Quarantine – Episode 27: Contact Tracing with Annie Thomas
  • UAA Steps Up to Help Address Need for COVID-19 Contact Tracers
  • Tracking the Pandemic: Contact tracing ramps up as COVID-19 cases continue to increase
  • UAA is No. 16 in the Top 25 most affordable online MPH programs for 2021
  • UAA is No. 20 in the Top 20 best online MPH degree programs in 2018
  • UAA researchers and facilities play key role in fight against COVID-19
  • Surprise: Alaska has ticks, and more are on the way
  • Community Partner Profile Series: Introducing Travis Hedwig
  • Gulf Research of the National Academies awards Hahn $76K grant
  • Faculty Fulbright winner will travel to Finland to research plastic alternatives
  • Ask a UAA Expert: Britteny Howell on COVID-19 Risks to Older Adults
  • Corrie Whitmore elected as board president of American Evaluation Association
  • Health sciences major Gloria Renken receives AARP Alaska scholarship
  • Paving the way in problem-solving diseases
  • Study provides look at COVID-19 in remote Alaska communities
  • Micah Hahn shares recent publications
  • Ruby Fried co-hosts APIA symposium
  • When the temperature hits 70, Alaskans feel the heat — and start suffering health ills
  • Team co-led by Philippe Amstislavski receives $2.5M to develop insulation materials
  • Making Land Acknowledgements in the University Setting Meaningful and Appropriate
  • Alaska Statewide Survey on LongCOVID
  • From Opioids to COVID to Sex Ed: How Public Health Education Impacts Anchorage
  • University of Alaska Anchorage named a top school for online health science education
  • Daily Nurse interviews Jennifer Meyer about monkeypost
  • Public Health Education in Rural Alaska: Bridging the Gap and Meeting People Where They Are
  • UAA faculty and students use machine learning to debunk COVID-19 misinformation
  • Health sciences major receives CESA funding to work with adults diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
  • Off to the races in Germany with Nordic skier and health sciences sophomore
  • Offering an oasis for breast-feeding mothers, on UAA's campus
  • Virtual spring: How UAA faculty went from the classroom to online
  • UAA M.P.H. alumna leads Anchorage Health Department
  • UAA offers contact tracing certification as COVID-19 cases climb
  • Quacyya Cuaresma starts with small changes to fuel grand ambitions
  • Alaska public health experts are taking the fight against COVID-19 misinformation to Facebook comment threads
  • UAA students and faculty collaborate to curb the spread of COVID-19 misinformation
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  • UAA lactation pod will support breast-feeding mothers
  • A needle in a haystack: UAA researchers are on the hunt for ticks in Alaska
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Micah Hahn shares recent publications

by Ahliil Saitanan  |    April 26, 2022

Micah Hahn, assistant professor of Environmental Health with the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies of the UAA Div. of Population Health Sciences, has recently co-authored numerous papers focused on wildfire smoke, evolving perceptions, modeling geographic uncertainty, implications of inadequate water storage, and more, including:

  • Wildfire Smoke Is Associated With an Increased Risk of Cardiorespiratory Emergency Department Visits in Alaska
  • Evolving perceptions of COVID-19 vaccines among remote Alaskan communities
  • Modeling Geographic Uncertainty in Current and Future Habitat for Potential Populations of Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Alaska
  • Managing Wildlife Disease Under Climate Change
  • Implications of inadequate water and sanitation infrastructure for community spread of COVID-19 in remote Alaskan communities
  • Modeling future climate suitability for the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus, in California with an emphasis on land access and ownership
Micah Hahn
Micah Hahn shares her recent publications. (Photo by James Evans/University of Alaska Anchorage photographer)
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