A Brief Overview on Vitamin D for Alaska Health Care Providers

Acknowledgments: We thank Rosalyn Singleton, MD, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium; Ken Thummel, PhD, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington; Rachel Lescher, MD, Southcentral Foundation; Robert Lawrence, MD, Alaska Department of Corrections; Stephanie Wrightsman-Birch, RN, MPH, MS, FNP, Margaret Young, MPH, Jared Parrish, PhD, and Rebekah Morisse, RN, MPH, Alaska Section of Women’s, Children’s, and Family Health; Sandrine Deglin, PhD, Alaska Environmental Public Health Program; and Glenn Harvey, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services for their important contributions to this report. Department of Health and Social Services Valerie J. Davidson, Commissioner Division of Public Health Jay C. Butler, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Director Editors: Joe McLaughlin, MD, MPH Louisa Castrodale, DVM, MPH