Gretchen Day
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Gretchen Day is a Master's prepared epidemiologist and biostatistician and has worked with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Research program since its creation in 2001, either as a contractor, or directly employed as a Research Services Biostatistician. She has experience working with a variety of data sources (i.e., hospital administrative, cancer surveillance, mortality, injury, and data from multiple research studies, including several randomized trials). She is currently assisting the Southcentral Foundation (SCF) with analysis for "Jumpstarting Culturally-Informed Advanced Care Planning with ANAI People in Primary Care", a cluster-randomized trial of whether provider-initiated discussion can increase the likelihood of medically-fragile patients creating advanced care directives, as well as "More Outside Your Door (MOYD)", a multi-level, randomized, stepped-wedge intervention trial, designed to reduce the disparity of childhood obesity in Yup'ik Alaska Native children by increasing the consumption of nutrient-dense foods, as well as increasing physical activity. The MOYD intervention is a follow up to Back To Basics, a quasi-experimental community-based intervention in rural Alaska which addressed childhood obesity.