Dr. Anne Zink, is a practicing emergency medicine physician and the former Chief Medical Officer of Alaska who served from 2019 to 2024, also held the position of president of ASTHO, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers, from 2022 to 2023. She has a keen interest in using informatics and patient-centered partnerships to merge public health and healthcare systems, thereby improving both individual and population health. During her tenure, Dr. Zink guided Alaska through the COVID-19 pandemic, achieving some of the lowest case fatality rates in the country, the highest testing per capita early in the pandemic, and the quickest vaccination rollout in the middle of winter across a state larger than Montana, California, and Texas combined. Additionally, she and her team led the restructuring of the State of Alaska’s largest department, the Department of Health and Social Services, into two more efficient agencies. She directed the state’s efforts on Complex Care, contributed to the creation of the Healthy Alaskans Initiative, and enhanced mental health services across the state, among other accomplishments. Her work is informed by her ongoing clinical role as a practicing emergency medicine physician, where she directly observes the effects of policies on patients.