One Health Alaska Conference 2023
One Health Alaska Conference 2023
ONE FUTURE
February 28-March 3, 2023
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Westmark Hotel
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 Welcome
Welcomes by UAF Chancellor Daniel White, UAF COHR
Director Arleigh Reynolds, and an introduction to the
conference planning team
04 The Venue
Understanding the layout of the conference hotel
05 Conference Schedule
Timed schedule and room location for each day of the
conference at the Westmark Hotel.
Stay up to date
21 Additional Programming
on the
conference by
following our
Find links to additional events happening in and around
socials:
linktr.ee/uaf.onehealth Fairbanks, as well as special opportunities for conference
participants. Food & drink recommendations also listed.
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CHANCELLOR'S WELCOME
It is my pleasure to welcome you to Fairbanks, home of the
University of Alaska Fairbanks Troth Yeddha’ campus, for this
week’s One Health conference.
My hope is that connections formed over the next few days build long-term
research partnerships and lead to new educational and outreach programs
around One Health. These ongoing and meaningful collaborations are key to
interdisciplinary initiatives, research and to the solutions our world needs. Good
luck and best wishes for a productive week.
Daniel M. White
UAF Chancellor
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WELCOME TO FAIRBANKS
I am pleased to welcome you to the third international One
Health, One Future conference, presented by the University of
Fairbanks Center for One Health Research. I was thrilled to
see the overwhelming amount of interest as the abstracts
came in, as well as the scope of your research underway
around the world. After seeing the submissions, we organized
the sessions to accommodate as many presenters as possible
and to provide even more opportunities for collaboration.
The Center for One Health Research is fairly new at UAF, although many of our
faculty have been looking at animal, human and environmental health for
decades. The new center aims to take a holistic view of health and well-being,
both for individuals and communities, to address some of our most pressing
issues.
This One Health approach will help ensure a much better understanding of the
root causes of the issues that challenge health and well-being across the human,
animal and environmental health interface during a period of unprecedented
change. It will also help us identify what makes our communities more resilient
as we adapt to new realities.
We’re pleased to partner with the U.S. State Department as we continue work
that spans across the Circumpolar North and beyond. I’m looking forward to the
robust discussions, emerging partnerships and cultural celebrations that will
undoubtedly be a part of the next four days as we explore One Health, One
Future together.
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ONE HEALTH, ONE FUTURE 2023
CONFERENCE PLANNING TEAM
ARLEIGH J. REYNOLDS
Director
Professor of Clinical Nutrition
University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research
KELSEY NICHOLSON
Program Administrator
University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research
HANNAH ROBINSON
Master's Coordinator | Research Advising and Mentoring Professional (RAMP)
University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research
UAF Biomedical Learning and Student Training (UAF BLaST)
LAURIE MEYTHALER-MULLINS
Community Outreach & Public Health Veterinarian
Colorado State University
University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research
KIM MCGINNIS
Director, Business Administration Program
Instructor, Business Administration
University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Business and Security
Management
WITH ADDITIONAL Charlene Stern, Malinda Chase, Carrie Stevens, David Payer,
CONSULTATION FROM Nikoosh Carlo, Tuula Hollmen, Hajo Eicken, Diane O'Brien
THANK YOU TO OUR Explore Fairbanks Golden Heart Greeters, UAF Staff Members, Alaska
VOLUNTEERS Fellows Program Members
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 2023
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Conference Schedule
THEME: Holistic Health
MORNING SESSION
GOLD ROOM AFTERNOON SESSION
GOLD ROOM
10:20 - GRACE LEU BURKE
HOLISTIC HEALTH RESILIENCE
Public Health Risk from
Environmental Exposure to RAMPART ROOM
Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria
in Urban Moose 5:30
FILM SCREENING: ATTLA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
GOLD ROOM
10:40 - ANNE ZINK Discussion with Joe Bifelt
North Star: How Alaska and the following the screening
Arctic can Lead the Way to a
Healthier Future
LUNCH
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1ST, 2023
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THEME: Food System, Security, & Sovereignty
LUNCH
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THURSDAY, MARCH 2ND, 2023
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Conference Schedule
THEME: Global Impacts, Coordination,
& Collaboration
MORNING SESSION AFTERNOON SESSION
GOLD ROOM
1:00 - PANELS
8:00 - WELCOME
ONE HEALTH APPROACHES TO
U.S. DOS: Joshua Glasser
EDUCATION
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS GOLD ROOM
8:15 - ELIZABETH BAGLEY DOING GOOD BY DOING WELL:
Climate Solutions and SUSTAINABLE, JUST, &
Collaboration: Drawdown in Action REGENERATIVE BUSINESSES
RAMPART ROOM
DEENAALEE CHASE
8:50 - HODGDON
POSTER SESSION
To Become Grounded: a practice
in regeneration 2:30- 3:30- MINTO ROOM
LUNCH
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FRIDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2023
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THEME: Communication & Education
BREAK
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 2023
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Simeon John, Yup’ik, is from the community of Nunakauyaq, or Toksook Bay and has served as a
Qungasvik (Tools for Life) Prevention Coordinator and as a research co-investigator for projects
within the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) for nearly a decade. Mr. John has a
long history of serving his community as a graduate of the Rural Human Services program and
then in a role as a Village Wellness Counselor and Behavioral Health Aide with the Yukon
Kuskokwim Health Corporation. In his role with CANHR, Mr. John will serve as a regional leader for
the Alaska Alliance for Community Engagement-Climate and Health (AK ACE-CH) initiative that
has recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Billy Charles, Yup’ik, is from the community of Imangaq, or Emmonak, and has served in a
leadership role for the Qungasvik (Tool for Life) project and as a senior research co-investigator for
several other projects within CANHR for well over a decade. Mr. Charles has served in various
elected leadership positions in his community and has served two terms with the Alaska
Federation of Natives (AFN) and in a prior appointed position as a rural advisor to the governor. Mr.
Charles provides leadership, cultural direction and intervention implementation and fidelity
management for CANHR’s program of prevention science research focused on building strengths
and protective factors in young Alaska Native people to reduce suicide risk and alcohol misuse In
his role with CANHR, Mr. Charles will serve as a regional leader for the Alaska Alliance for
Community Engagement-Climate and Health (AK ACE-CH) initiative that has recently received
funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Anne Zink, MD, FACEP and Chief Medical Officer for the State of Alaska
Dr. Anne Zink grew up in Colorado and moved through her training from College in Philadelphia
to Medical School at Stanford and then Residency at University at Utah. As a mountaineering
guide she had fallen in love with Alaska and after residency in Emergency Medicine, and became
lucky enough to call Alaska home.
Dr. Zink had the honor of becoming the State of Alaska Chief Medical Officer in July 2019. She and
her team lead Alaska from the first repatriation flight to today through the COVID pandemic. She
is president of ASTHO, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers starting in
September 2022. She has special interest using informatics and information to bring together
public health and health care to improve the health of the people we all serve with always putting
a focus on putting the patient first.
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Grace Leu-Burke is a clinical microbiologist with over 35 years of experience. Completing her
master’s degree from Michigan State University in 2016, Grace accepted a tenure track teaching
position at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She currently teaches clinical microbiology,
molecular diagnostics, and research methods. Her research interests surround the environmental
impact and public health risk from urban wildlife.
Laurence Daigle, Laurie Meythaler-Mullins, Taylor Van Doren, Anne Zink, Alisa Alexander
Angie Fitch
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Julia Hnilicka is a proud graduate of University of Alaska Fairbanks. As Alaska State Director for
USDA Rural Development, she is grateful for everything she learned at the Department of Alaska
Native Studies and Rural Development. From traveling to rural communities to working as a
Teacher’s Assistant for Professor Meckel, the education she gained at DANSRD is invaluable to the
work she does today. Hnilicka grew up in Nenana and tries to spend as much time at home as
possible, while residing in Anchorage for work. She strives to make her community proud with the
work she does for rural Alaska. Her parents are JanVerne’ and Charley Hnilicka.
Amy Knapp Pettit was raised on a cow-calf operation on the southern Oregon coast where
generations of her family have raised premier beef cattle for over 100 years. She earned a Bachelor
of Science in agricultural business management from Oregon State University.
Upon arrival to Alaska in 2005 she began her career with the State Division of Agriculture where
she led the Marketing & Development team, was a founding board member of the Alaska Food
Policy Council, and served on the North American Agricultural Marketing Officials Executive
Board.
Pettit became Executive Director of the Alaska Farmland Trust in 2015 where her role included
permanently protecting valuable agricultural lands, promoting the industry across multiple
platforms, and educating fellow Alaskans on the importance of their food system.
Amy was appointed by the Biden Administration to serve as the State Executive Director of the
USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Alaska in February 2022.
A longtime Seward resident, Maile Branson holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, Master’s Degree
in Fisheries with an emphasis on aquaculture and fish health, and a PhD in Biological Sciences
focusing on disease ecology and wildlife virology. Maile is passionate about studying OneHealth
issues as they relate to the People, animals, and environment of the Chugach region. When Maile
isn’t at work, she loves doing anything in the outdoors!
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Antti Oksanen is research professor at the Finnish Food Authority in Oulu, northern Finland. His
topics are wildlife health and disease, and especially parasitic infections, particularly zoonotic
ones. He tries to think of the humankind also from the parasite’s point of view.
Harmony Jade Sugaq Wayner is a tribal member of Naknek Native Village, a 5th generation
commercial fisherwoman in Bristol Bay, and a marine scientist focused on sustainable rural food
systems to promote Indigenous values and well-being in Alaska. She is the Vice-Chair of the Arctic
Youth Network, an Indigenous fellow for the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee
(IARPC), and an Alaska Sea Grant Fellow. She has a B.S. in Biology from the University of Alaska
Southeast and a Master of Resource Management from the University Centre of the Westfjords in
Iceland.
Amy Pettit, Antii Oksanen, Deborah Nyquist Louise Brady, Erik Schoen, Andrew Cyr
Deenaalee Chase Hodgdon, Julia Hnilicka, Cassandra DeBlois, Kathi Lefebvre, Shannon
Anthony Lindoff, Deborah Nyquist Cellan, Tom Farrugia
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THURSDAY, MARCH 2ND, 2023
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Elizabeth frequently speaks about climate solutions and was invited to create two LinkedIn
Learning courses focused on sustainability that have engaged tens of thousands of learners from
around the world. An experienced environmental educator, Elizabeth worked as a naturalist in
Glacier National Park, taught middle and high school science in Louisiana, created K–12
professional development programs for teachers, and designed a science communication course
for graduate students.
Deenaalee Chase Hodgdon (They/Them) is Deg Xit’an Dene and Yupik/Supiaq from the villages of
Gitr’ingithchagg (Anvik) and Qinuyang (South Naknek), Alaska. Descended from rivers and the
ocean and named after the great northern mountain, Deenaalee seeks to ground their work in
regenerative economies, food sovereignty and security, and circumpolar geopolitics in the lessons
these being teach us; to flow and find grace through the rapids and in the meandering, to find
depth, breadth and pleasure in the vastness of our humanity and to hold space for the multiplicity
of life we interact with through time while deeply rooted to place.
Deenaalee holds their Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Anthropology with an emphasis in food and
fisheries policy, gender and globalization, Indigenous studies, urban design, and entrepreneurship.
Since 2019, they have been nurturing the seeds of On The Land, where storytelling, audio
technology, and a love of the land and water come together to envision Indigenous futures and
mark the past and present. They find their joy in spending time working with their hands mending
fishing nets and tanning hides, and feasting in community on traditional foods that were gathered,
harvested, and grown locally.
Birgit Kuna loves the environment and loves health. Kuna has studied biology and environmental
epidemiology with further education in climate change related health impacts. Kuna has worked
in water and air pollution monitoring in a National Park in the US, supervised a multi-center
longitudinal study on air pollution and health in Switzerland and worked later for the World
Health Organization where she contributed in setting air quality guidelines. Currently, Kuna works
at the science-policy-interface by advising and providing services for funding bodies in the field of
climate change / environmental change and health in Europe.
Caroline Van Hemert, Ph.D., is a research wildlife biologist at the USGS Alaska Science Center. She
studies a range of topics relevant to avian and wildlife health in Alaska. Current research projects
include zoonotic disease surveillance in the Arctic, impacts of harmful algal blooms on seabirds,
and emerging avian diseases.
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Katherine Ginsbach is a senior associate with the Center for Transformational Health Law at the
O’Neill Institute. Her primary research areas include pandemic preparedness and response
legislation, global health governance, and disease surveillance. Her other areas of interest include
Indigenous health law, and One Health with a specific focus on the Arctic Region. She holds a J.D.
and an M.S. in global health from University of Notre Dame.
David Payer is a Natural Resource Program Manager and Wildlife Biologist with the National Park
Service based in Anchorage, Alaska. For the last 25 years, Payer has conducted research and
monitoring of Arctic wildlife and habitats. He was a lead author of the Arctic Council's Arctic
Biodiversity Assessment. Payer's professional training includes doctoral degrees in veterinary
medicine and wildlife ecology.
One of the panels this day, " Arctic Cooperation and One Health: Trans-Disciplinary
Work, Circumpolar Perspectives" is run by the United States Department of State. The
panel includes members from the DOS Bureau of Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
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Jaime has won numerous awards for his work, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from
the University of Houston's College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Prairie Champion
Award from the Coastal Prairie Conservancy, and the Elizabeth Hull Abernathy Award from the
Garden Club of America for outstanding contributions to environmental education of youth.
Carolyn White is an Urban Environmental Planner with the Harris County Public Health (HCPH)
Built Environment Unit and the Public Health representative to the County’s Infrastructure
Resilience Team, a multi-departmental, collaborative group developing a Flood Resilience Plan.
Her work focuses on uplifting under-resourced communities and natural infrastructure to bring
equitable climate adaptation to Harris County, focusing on One Health principles. Prior to joining
HCPH she was the Conservation Director at Memorial Park Conservancy for 4 years, and an
Environmental Services Program Manager with the Harris County Flood Control District for 11
years. Her environmental planning career started at Cardno-ENTRIX Environmental Consultants
where she was a Project Manager for 12 years, focusing on ecology and stream restoration. She
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota and a
Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from University of California – Berkeley. She completed
all 4 levels of Wildland Hydrology Natural Channel Design courses and is a Certified Ecological
Restoration Practitioner and a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control.
Serving the Bering Strait Region, Dr. Jacqueline Hrabok is joint faculty with the University of
Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extension - Cooperative
Extension & Northwest Campus High Latitude Range Management Program. Coming from the
Sami Education Institute Kaamanen Finland, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala,
and Lakehead University Thunder Bay Canada, Jackie has lived in remote Indigenous
communities in the circumpolar north for the past 20 years. As an ecologist and artisan, her
teaching, research, and service interests include reindeer husbandry and applied arts with
specialties in animal health and disease, meat preservation, tanning fish & reindeer hides into
leather, drone & Gopro nature photography, and creating hands-on and foreign language
experiences for youth. Dr. Hrabok, a UAF Nanook alumni from 2002, thrives at north of 64 as a
Nome Mighty Muskoxen hockey goalie and smiles most when fishing, pack rafting, scuba diving,
and booking Palm tree adventures with her Siberian Husky Yeti.
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Dr. Deborah Thomson is the author of The Art of Science Communication and has founded an
organization that inspires children and adults around the world to value the interconnection
between public health and the health of the environment, plants, and animals (called One Health
Lessons). In addition, she has served as a Science Policy Advisor in the United States Congress and
is a veterinarian and award-winning public speaker. Her articles have been printed in multiple
publications, including The Lancet Planetary Health.
Jean Wallace has extensively studied the professional work attitudes and experiences of lawyers
and physicians, with a recent shift to veterinarians and animal health technologists. Her current
research interests include: mental health and wellness; work-life balance and the work-family
interface; and job stress and coping strategies. She is working with colleagues in Veterinary
Medicine (Drs. Susan Kutz, Cindy Adams and Tessa Baker) who are exploring how to improve
access to and acceptance of veterinary care for communities in need by understanding and
enhancing the mental health of veterinary service providers.
Ellen Chenoweth is originally from Michigan and has lived in Sitka, Alaska for 14 years. In 2018
she earned her Ph.D. in Fisheries from UAF studying humpback whale energetics and predation
at salmon hatchery release sites.
Dr. Doreen E. Martinez is Mescalero Apache and Pennsylvania Dutch. She is a transnational
Indigenous epistemologist with a PhD in Sociology. Her projects address and include
mis/understandings of identity, collective philosophies, and nation-state relationships. She is
committed to ethically engage and pass along this knowledge and understandings; thus, she is an
avid advocate of alliance building and promoting justice.
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POSTERS @ ONE HEALTH, ONE FUTURE
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University of Alaska
Impact and Mitigation of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Rural Alaska
Nikola Nikolic Fairbanks, Center for One
Health Research Native Community
APHL-CDC at Minnesota PulseNet: One Health and Laboratory Surveillance at the Minnesota
Emily Verbrugge
Dept. of Health Department of Health
University of Alaska
Nanopore Sequencing Enriches for Antimicrobial Resistance Genes
Danielle Wrenn Fairbanks, Insititute of Devin M. Drown, Ph.D
Arctic Biology in Alaskan Soil Microbial Communities
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University of Alaska
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae: An increasingly
Anchorage/Alaska
Natalie Rouse significant pathogen for critically endangered
Veterinary Pathology
Cook Inlet Beluga whales
Services
University of Alaska
Fairbanks and Chugach An Invesatigation of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in
Annette Jarosz
Regional Resources Bivalves in Resurrection Bay, 2021-2022
Commission
Sebastian
University of Alaska An exploration of moose habitat selection in
Sarah Dempsey Zavoico, Shawn
Fairbanks Togiak National Wildlife Refuge
Crimmins
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THINGS TO DO
SATURDAY & SUNDAY,
February 17-March 31 - World Ice Art Championships MARCH 4-5, 2023
2023 Tanana Valley Fair Grounds. OH-SMART WORKSHOP
FREE REGISTRATION /
February 24-25 - Festival of Native Arts. UAF Campus. LUNCH PROVIDED
The University of Fairbanks
February 27 - Resiliency Conference at the Westmark Center for One Health
Hotel; Trauma Yoga (2/28) and Food Security Event at Research is offering this
Stone Soup Cafe in partnership with OHOF. More course in collaboration
information found at http://bit.ly/3W7vmEQ. with the University of
Westmark Hotel. Minnesota, supported by
the USDA National
UAF College of Liberal Arts Department of Music Institute of Food and
Concert Series, Davis Concert Hall Agriculture, Hatch project
3.1 Arcana, Sean Dowgray Percussion Recital 1018914, for everyone
3.2 Matthew Burtner and Todd Brinkman Lecture and interested in One Health.
Performance: ecoacoustic world
3.2 You Sink Into the Singing Show
This course will occur after
COHR's conference One
University of Alaska Museum of the North - show Health, One Future 2023.
proof of attending OHOF 2023 to receive an in- This workshop will be
residence rate of $12 for entry! capped at 60 people.
Funded by an Institutional
Large Animal Research Station Tours - We'll be having Development Award (IDeA)
two tours Monday 2/27 and Friday 3/3 at 4pm for OHOF from the National
2023 participants, thanks to Sarah Barcalow. FREE Institutes of Health.
with registration. Each tour is limited to first 20 REGISTER HERE:
https://forms.gle/XikjJR7ZTcaT1sYN9
registrants.
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FOOD & DRINK
The Westmark Hotel - Continental Breakfast provided for guests lodging there
Conference Snacks & Coffee - Coffee offered throughout the conference; Snacks
offered twice a day
Conference Lunch - Lunch is provided in the Gold Room for every full
conference day (not on Friday)
Cafe De Stir It Up - less than a mile away (3 minute drive), one of the best cafes
that meet all allergy and dietary restriction needs. GF/DF friendly!
Marlo's Bakery- delicious baked goods, also less than a mile away from
conference.
Sunrise Cafe - for all drivers, a great coffee hut to get your breakfast needs.
VENUE - coffee shop by day, bar by night. Alaskan art on display as well!
Red Lantern Steak & Spirits - restaurant housed within the Westmark Hotel.
Classic American
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