Dr. Lawrence D. Weiss is the primary author of the ACPP blog entries. He is Professor Emeritus, a retired Research Professor of Public Health from the University of Alaska, and formerly Principal Investigator for a grant from the National Institutes of Health. While at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Dr. Weiss developed and managed the Master of Public Health program, and spearheaded the development of the Alaska Native Studies program. He is the author of three books on various aspects of public health policy, and a fourth book about the historical political economy of the Navajo people. In addition, he has published numerous articles about public health policy.

During the mid-1980s, Dr. Weiss was executive director of the Alaska Health Project, a private nonprofit organization that focused on occupational health and safety training, and environmental health issues. During the 1970s he was a program evaluator for the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Department of Family, Community, and Emergency Medicine. He is the founder of the Alaska Center for Public Policy, served as the Executive Director, and is currently the Director of Programs.