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Population Health & Informatics Policy Committee

The Committee provides guidance and direction on policy and programmatic priorities that drive population health improvement strategies. The Committee will suggest policy directions that improve state readiness and capacity to advance best practices in population health improvement and analysis regarding each of the three pillars of population health improvement: public health and health care partnerships to support clinical to community connections; strengthening collaboration and integration between payers, providers, and public health agencies in addressing the social determinants of health and health equity; enhancing state public health agency capacity for advancing technological solutions and systems as well as using health data and informatics to develop and analyze health status improvements.

Anne Zink
Anne Zink
Alaska Department of Health

Chair

Anne Zink, MD, FACEP was appointed Chief Medical Officer for the Alaska Department of Health & Social Services, Division of Public Health in August 2019. Dr. Zink has 13 years of experience in emergency medicine and joins DHSS from the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, where she served as the Emergency Department medical director (2010-18) and also on the Board of Trustees (2012-18). In addition, she helped create the High-Utilizer Mat-Su (HUMS) (2017-18) program that aims to improve patient health and cost savings for some of the state's most vulnerable patients.

Dr. Zink is a practicing emergency room physician who is passionate about helping to shape and transform our current health care system. In all the work she does, she strives to create work environments, policies, and practices that are data-driven, foster collaboration and build system efficiencies that put patients first. Her priorities as CMO include building stronger partnerships between DHSS and Alaska's health care providers and providing support statewide in locally relevant ways to help establish healthier communities across Alaska.

Dr. Zink received her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of Utah.