DDTP Diabetes Surveillance Alaska Area

The DDTP Diabetes Surveillance Alaska Area project, managed by the Indian Health Service, maintains a comprehensive statewide tracking system for diabetes prevalence and complications among Alaska Native and Indian populations. Established in 1985, the program monitors the incidence of renal failure, amputations, and blindness to provide critical data that helps grant sites direct clinical and primary prevention programming. The surveillance team conducts site visits to various regions, including CRNA, KANA, Nome, YK, KIC, and CATG, to update epidemiology registers by reviewing ICD coding for diabetes, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes. This forecast is designated as a Total Small Business Set-Aside under NAICS code 541611. The program emphasizes the use of regional and statewide prevalence data to meet grant requirements and shares findings through peer reviewed publications. Primary points of contact for this initiative include Boone Denny for program inquiries and Gladys Wheeler as the Contracting Officer.