Physical Activity and Nutrition

• Program Overview

Key Initiatives

• Activity-Friendly Routes
• Breastfeeding
• Community Nutrition
• Early Care and Education
  • Breastfeeding
    Welcomed Here
  • Go NAPSACC
• Healthy Food Initiative
• Play Every Day
• Sugary Drinks
• Schools

Partnerships

• Alliance for Healthy Kids
• Healthy Futures

Publications & Materials

• Burden of Obesity
• Evaluations
• Fact Sheets
• Schools
• School Health
  
• School Nutrition
• School Wellness Policies
• Student Weight Status >
• Play Every Day Materials
  • Physical Activity
  • Sugary Drinks

School Health Program

Program Contacts

3601 C Street, Suite 722
Anchorage AK 99503
Fax: 907-269-5446
pan@alaska.gov

• Katie Reilly, MPH
  Unit Manager
  907-269-3457
• Ann Potempa, MPH
  Play Every Day Coordinator
  907-744-0474
  
• Lauren Kelsey, MPH
  Public Health Specialist
  907-269-8165
• Jessie Doherty, MPH
  Public Health Specialist
  907-334-5966

Webpage updated August 2024

Alaska Student Weight Status

Alaska student weigh status publications older than 25 months can be found on the State of Alaska Library Archives website

• Instant Atlas map of SWSSS district data
• Healthy Alaskans Indicator reports for K-8 Obesity and Overweight on AK-IBIS
  
  

School District Weight Status Reports

Alaska Statewide

• Estimating the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Alaska Using Partial, Nonrandom Measurement Data (2016

Contact

For more information about the Student Weight Status Surveillance System, please email: Lauren Kelsey, MPH or call 907-269-8165