Jennifer Dobson

Jennifer Dobson serves as Director of the Environmental Public Health (EPH) program at Alaska Pacific University and concurrently works as an Epidemiologist at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Based in Anchorage, she has dedicated over a decade to serving Indigenous communities across fifty rural Alaskan villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region.

Academic Background:

• Undergraduate degree in Environmental Health Science
• Master of Public Health (MPH)
• Graduate Certificate in Global Health

Professional Expertise: As an environmental public health generalist, her work integrates:

• Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
• Indoor Air Quality Assessment
• Community Healthy Homes Initiatives
• Institutional Health Compliance
• Applied Epidemiological Research
• Rural Public Health Equity Frameworks

Her decade-long leadership of community-based environmental health programs emphasizes culturally responsive service delivery, guided by the motto: "You have to have your heart glad when you are serving the people."

Professional Engagement:

• Key leadership roles in Alaska Environmental Health Association
• Active membership in American Academy of Sanitarians
• Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS)
• DAAS certification holder