Lawrence Weiss: founder of the Masters of Public Health program at the University of Alaska Anchorage

Send us Fan MailDr. Lawrence Weiss founded the Masters in Public Health program and was instrumental in starting the Alaska Native Studies program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has a PhD in Sociology from SUNY Binghamton, but it was his postdoctoral Masters degree from Harvard in Occupational Health that moved him to Anchorage in the early 80s and led to a 35 year career in public health as a researcher, educator, writer, program evaluator and policy analyst. For Dr. Weiss's article on Medicare-for-All, click here. For Dr. Weiss's article on teacher retirements, click here. For Forbes's ranking of cost of health care by state, click here.For NPR story on cost of chemo in Juneau, click here.