Patricia Longley Cochran

Patricia Cochran is an Inupiat Eskimo born and raised in Nome, Alaska. Ms. Cochran serves as Executive Director of the Alaska Native Science Commission (ANSC), a cooperative project of the Alaska Federation of Natives, University of Alaska Anchorage and the National Science Foundation. The ANSC provides a linkage for creating partnerships and communication between science and research and the Alaska Native communities.

Ms. Cochran previously served as administrator of the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage; Executive Director of the Alaska Community Development Corporation; Local Government Program Director with the University of Alaska Fairbanks; and Director of Employment and Training for the North Pacific Rim Native Corporation.

Ms. Cochran currently serves as Chair of the American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Caucus of the American Public Health Association; Science Advisor to the Arctic Research Commission; member of the Alaska Global Change Planning Team; member of the Science Steering Committee for the National Science Foundation, Human Dimension of the Arctic System; Program Chair for the Tenth International Congress on Circumpolar Health Indigenous Program; Treasurer and Governing Council member of the International Union for Circumpolar Health; member of the National Native Science Education Advisory Council; member of the National Research Council/Governor Knowlesí Committee on Managing Wolf and Bear Populations in Alaska; and a member of the American Society for Circumpolar Health.