Physical Activity and Nutrition

• Program Overview

Key Initiatives

• Activity-Friendly Routes
• Breastfeeding
• Community Nutrition
• Early Care and Education
• Healthy Food Initiative
• Play Every Day
• Sugary Drinks
• Schools
• School Health
  
• School Nutrition
• School Wellness Policies
• Student Weight Status>

Partnerships

• Alliance for Healthy Kids
• Healthy Futures

Publications & Materials

• Burden of Obesity
• Evaluations
• Fact Sheets
• Student Weight Status
• Play Every Day Materials
  • Physical Activity
  • Sugary Drinks

School Health Program

• School Health and Wellness Institute
• School Wellness Policies
• Physical Education
• Physical Activity & Recess
• Physical Activity in Schools Law
• Policies and Programs
• School Nutrition
• School Health Profiles
  
• School Partnerships
• Alliance for Healthy Kids
• Student Weight Status >
• Training Tools for Healthy Schools CDC E-Learning

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
  
• Diane Peck, MPH RDN
  Public Health Nutritionist
  907-269-8447
• Lauren Kelsey, MPH
  Public Health Specialist
  907-269-8165
• Jessie Doherty, MPH
  Public Health Specialist
  907-334-5966

Alaska Student Weight Status

• Alaska Student Weight Status Surveillance System (SWSSS) Description (2016)
• 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

• Alaska Traditional High School Students - 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (2017)
• Estimating the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Alaska Using Partial, Nonrandom Measurement Data (2016)

Alaska Gateway Borough

• Student Weight Status: Alaska Gateway School District
  • 2014-2015 (2015)
  • 2013-2014 (2014)

Anchorage

• Student Weight Status: Anchorage School District
  • 2018-2019 (2019)
  • 2017-2018 (2018)
  • 2016-2017 (2017)
  • 2015-2016 (2016)
  • 2014-2015 (2015)
  • 2013-2014 (2014)
  • 2012-2013 (2014)
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among Anchorage School District Students, 1998-99 to 2010-11 (2012)
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among Anchorage School District Students, 1998-2008 (2009)
• Prevalence of Overweight Among Anchorage Children: A Study of Anchorage School District Data 1998-2003 (2004)

Anchorage Metropolitan Area

• Anchorage & Mat-Su Borough School Districts
  Combined Summary Report
  • 2018-2019 (2019)
  • 2017-2018 (2018)
  • 2016-2017 (2017)
  • 2015-2016 (2016)
    
  • 2013-2014 (2014)
• Obesity in K–7 Students — Anchorage, Alaska, 2003–04 to 2010–11 School Years (2013)

Dillingham

• Student Weight Status: Dillingham City School District
  • 2015-2016 (2016)

Kenai Peninsula Borough

• Student Weight Status: Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
  • 2018-2019 (2019)
  • 2017-2018 (2018)
  • 2016-2017 (2017)
  • 2015-2016 (2016)
  • 2014-2015 (2015)
  • 2013-2014 (2014)
  • 2012-2013 (2014)
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among Students in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, 2011-2012 (2012)

Ketchikan Gateway Borough

• Student Weight Status: Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District
  • 2017-2018 (2018)
  • 2016-2017 (2017)
  • 2015-2016 (2016)
  • 2014-2015 (2015)
  • 2013-2014 (2014)

Kodiak Island Borough

• Student Weight Status: Kodiak Island Borough School District
  • 2018-2019 (2019)
  • 2017-2018 (2018)
  • 2016-2017 (2017)
  • 2014-2015 (2015)
  • 2013-2014 (2014)

Matanuska-Susitna Borough

• Student Weight Status: Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
  • 2018-2019 (2019)
  • 2017-2018 (2018)
  • 2016-2017 (2017)
  • 2015-2016 (2016)
  • 2014-2015 (2015)
  • 2013-2014 (2014)
  • 2003-2010 (2011)

Nome

• Student Weight Status: Nome Public School District
  • 2014-2015 (2015)

North Slope Borough

• Student Weight Status: North Slope Borough School District
  • 2015-2016 (2016)
  • 2014-2015 (2015)
  • 2013-2014 (2014)

Petersburg

• Student Weight Status: Petersburg School District
  • 2017-2018 (2018)
  • 2016-2017 (2017)
  • 2015-2016 (2016)
  • 2014-2015 (2015)
  • 2013-2014 (2014)

• Student Weight Status: Sitka School District
  • 2014-2015 (2015)

Contact

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

Webpage updated January 2022