Rachael Cooper, MPH, MSN, RN has over 15 years of experience providing healthcare in multiple settings from mobile clinics in rural Guatemala, Haiti, the Mississippi Delta, and Everest Base Camp to emergency departments in Level 1 trauma centers of Boston, Bronx, Kathmandu Nepal, and Alaska’s remote YK-Delta. Currently, Rachael is a critical care nurse in the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. Rachael is passionate about the creativity required to provide high quality healthcare in hard to reach areas with a particular concern for migrant health and pediatrics.

Before nursing, Rachael developed and ran international mobile clinics in Guatemala, Haiti, and Mississippi, and conducted school-based parasite research and well child checks in rural Guatemalan villages with the Massachusetts-based organization Partners In Development where she continues to serve on the Board of Directors as a Public Health Consultant. Rachael began her nursing career as a Pediatric Nurse Consultant near the Bronx with the Dominican Women’s Development Center providing antenatal/lactation counseling and well-baby visits with primarily Spanish-speaking mothers and their children up to age three years.

During the Pandemic, Rachael’s attention turned toward critical care as a disaster response nurse for COVID-19, hurricane relief, and Southern Border crossings of unaccompanied minors. In the last three years, Rachael has been fortunate to work in the stabilization and management of critically ill patients - many of them pediatric - in Bethel Alaska’s Emergency Department and now an Intensive Care Unit in Anchorage. During her time as the Alaska ENA Education Chair, Rachael hopes to focus on pediatric readiness in emergency departments across the state of Alaska - a place where family, neonatal, maternal, migration, and critical care platforms all come together to surmount unrivaled feats of perseverance that make healthcare possible.