Key Informant Interviews for NSF Collaborative Proposal: An Indigenous-Centered Storytelling Approach to Understand COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance, Alaska, 2025

In late 2025 we conducted 18 key informant interviews with individuals within the Maniilaq Association service region who are involved in healthcare and other services used by families, such as daycare. These interviews focused on the long-term impacts of the pandemic on health and healthcare utilization in the remote Maniilaq Association service region of Northwest Alaska. Interviews were conducted by phone or Zoom.
The majority (11) of interviewees were female. Interviewees represented a diverse range of fields including emergency medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, behavioral health, community health aide services, midwifery, nursing, and childcare.
This study was reviewed and approved by the Maniilaq Association, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Health Research Review Committee, and the Alaska Area IRB.
These data may be requested from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium by writing [e-mail].