Jack Niedenthal
Consultant for the people of Bikini Atoll (2024-present)
Columnist for the Pacific Island Times Magazine (2023-present)
Secretary of Health & Human Services for the Marshall Islands Government (January 2019 - April 2023)
Secretary General of the Marshall Islands Red Cross Society (March 2017 - January of 2019)
Worked for 33 years for the people of Bikini Atoll, the last 30 of those years as their advocate and Trust Liaison (retired from the position in July of 2016).
Dual citizen of the U.S. & the Marshall Islands
Educated: The University of Arizona
B.S. degree in Business Economics with Academic Distinction, elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society for Business Majors
Clarion University of Pennsylvania (1975-77)
Vice President of Student Senate, NCAA All American swimmer (1976) & PSAC State Champion swimmer (1977)
PADI Divemaster, IANTD wreck diver
Peace Corps volunteer, Namu Atoll, 1981-84. He has lived in the Marshall Islands since this time.
Certificate from the Guam Legislature recognizing various contributions to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, presented by Guam Hon. Senator Sam Mabini in Guam in September of 2011.
Life imitates Art (Watch on You Tube): On January 30 of 2014 Jose Alvarenga washed up on Ebon Atoll in the Marshall Islands after being adrift for 13 months from Mexico on a small fishing boat. In 2012, in the award winning Marshallese feature film THE SOUND OF CRICKETS AT NIGHT, a strange man washes up on another Marshall Islands beach and is discovered by Kali, a little Bikinian girl who is facing a huge set of problems of her own.
Marshall Islands Ministry of Health has one of the Best Responses in the World to COVID-19, the US CDC calls the RMI effort "Unprecedented."
From left to right, front row: Dr Robert Maddison, Chief of Staff, Sec. Jack, Bruce Bilimon, Former Minister of Health,
From left to right, back row: Deputy Secretary Mailynn Konelios-Langliur, Director of Public Health, Dr Frank Underwood, Deputy Secretary Francyne Wase-Jacklick
Not pictured: Deputy Secretary Glorine Jeladrik from Ebeye
Pacific Beat Interview with Marshall Islands Secretary of Health Jack Niedenthal 1/7/22 Re US Military failure to follow Marshall Islands protocols on repatriation flight
