The Center for Alaska Native Health Research: Advancing Innovations in Health through Strengths-Based Science
Includes a Live Web Event on 10/22/2026 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
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This webinar will highlight the Center for Alaska Native Health Research’s current research programs and real-world innovations designed to improve behavioral health, prevent chronic disease, and address the public health impacts of environmental stressors in rural communities, while building upon the strengths and resilience capacities within Alaska Native communities. Participants will explore how strengths-based, community-driven approaches and partnerships with Tribal Health Organizations can inform effective health education and health promotion practice, with consideration for how these approaches may be thoughtfully adapted to other Indigenous and Tribal contexts.
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Explain Alaska’s unique public health landscape and identify key cultural and community factors that inform effective health education and health promotion strategies in Alaska Native communities with considerations for how these approaches may be adapted to other Indigenous and Tribal contexts.
2. Describe and apply examples of strengths-based, community-driven health promotion and prevention strategies developed by Alaska Native communities and Tribal Health Organizations in partnership with the Center for Alaska Native Health Research.
HESPA III Competencies that will be covered include:
1.1.6 |Entry| Examine the factors and determinants that influence the assessment process.
9.2.3 |Entry| Utilize tools designed to reflect cultural humility, inclusivity, and sensitivity (e.g., National
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards, self-assessment).
Sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I contact education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available for this session is 0. Provider ID #98029 and Activity ID 0126019DL.
Dr. Stacy Rasmus
Director
Center for Alaska Native Health Research
Dr. Stacy Rasmus a social scientist and health equity researcher working with Indigenous peoples in the Arctic, Subarctic, and Pacific Northwest. She specializes in the development and evaluation of strengths-based strategies for wellness and resilience in American Indian and Alaska Native communities serving as the the director for the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR). CANHR was established within the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a mission centered on building and growing research capacity to generate and apply data-driven knowledge to improve Alaska Native health. CANHR’s research cores built a strong foundation for conducting community-engaged and participatory research with a focus on discovery and application of strengths-based solutions as part of community-driven and culturally-grounded interventions addressing health disparities in suicide, substance misuse and chronic disease in rural Alaska Native communities. CANHR’s vision focuses on what is going right in the world and with the people living and thriving within it along with building upon these strengths and protective factors as a framework for health prevention and promotion.
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