Program Teams

Meet the ACE-PATH Teams

Program
Alliance for Community Engagement – Partnership for Action Toward Health

University of Alaska Fairbanks 

Through its Protecting Health in the American Arctic project, the AK ACE team will test localized strategies to address the effects of key regional health stressors identified by rural Alaska Native communities, prioritizing food security, water quality, and young people’s health and well-being. 

Academic Leads: Stacy Rasmus, Ph.D., M.A.; Karsten Hueffer, Ph.D., D.V.M., M.A. 

Community Lead: Evon Taa'ąįį Peter, M.A. 

 

Public Health Institute 

The Public Health Institute’s Community Health and Resilience Mobilization (CHARM) Lake County project works with local partners to implement and test an intervention that lessens the immediate risks of heat exposure while promoting preventive behaviors to strengthen personal and community resilience.

Academic Leads: Michelle Wong, M.P.H.; Susan Paulukonis, M.P.H., M.A. 

Community Lead: Sarah Ryan

 

University of Colorado Denver 

The UC Denver Mountain West Hub project, Air Quality Action to Build Healthier and Stronger Rural and Urban Communities, will study the physical and mental health effects of providing do-it-yourself air filters to homes in lower-resourced rural and urban areas.

Academic Leads: Carol Brown, Ph.D.; Katherine Dickinson, Ph.D., M.S.; Katherine James, Ph.D., M.S., M.S.P.H. 

Community Leads: Emily Brown, M.P.H., CPH; Jaime Aguilar