ICHS faculty and staff are collaborating with many community partners and government agencies. We are also actively seeking opportunities to join public/private research and evaluation partnerships. The ICHS team is uniquely positioned to support community organizations in developing programs, evaluations and research platforms. ICHS can help strategize at any of the following stages:
ICHS faculty welcome the opportunity to work with students at the undergraduate and graduate level. Students can expect to contribute to all levels of research activities, from grant submission and data collection to drafting reports and manuscripts. Research studies vary from community based participatory research (human subjects) to environmental assessments which may include fieldwork. Please reach out directly to faculty for more information.
Dr. Lauren Lessard is an assistant professor of Health Sciences at ICHS. She is a trained maternal and child health epidemiologist and specializes in community based participatory research, implementation studies and program evaluations. She often employs mixed method research designs to address health disparities in underserved populations.
Dr. Micah Hahn is an assistant professor of Environmental Health at ICHS. She is trained as an epidemiologist and incorporates epidemiological study designs, spatiotemporal exposure assessment, GIS analysis, weather and climate data, ecological predictive modeling, and mixed-methods to answer interdisciplinary, applied questions around climate-related exposures and human-animal-environment interactions.
Dr. Ruby Fried is an assistant professor of Health Science within the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies. Her work focuses on identifying the drivers of health outcomes in terms of both risk and resilience. Dr. Fried's research includes examining the health impacts of traditional foods among Alaska Native people, traditional food security, and other mixed methods projects related to food environments and health disparities with a commitment to active and meaningful community-driven research.
Rebecca has more than 10 years of experience in the environmental sciences, including work at the U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Division and in private environmental consulting. She most enjoys working with data sets and interpreting the story within the numbers. Her investigations include the subjects of water quality and air quality, but now she enjoys the opportunity at ICHS to match observations within our physical environment with health implications.
