Davidson named ANTHC president

Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson, who had been serving as interim president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, has been appointed by the ANTHC board to serve as president. With that appointment, Davidson is stepping down as president of Alaska Pacific University, where she had been on leave.

Davidson, who is Yup’ik, is an enrolled tribal citizen of the Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council in Bethel. In 2018 she became the first Alaska Native woman to serve as lieutenant governor of Alaska, after serving as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.

Davidson previously served as ANTHC’s senior director of legal and intergovernmental affairs and represented Alaska Native communities and their health needs at federal, state and community levels.

Bernice Kaigelak, board chair of ANTHC, said that while ANTHC employees have faced many challenges over the past few months they have never lost focus on providing services to Alaska’s Native people.

Meanwhile at Alaska Pacific University, Hilton Hallock will continue to serve as interim president while the organization searches for a new permanent president.

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