• Ph.D. Organizational Systems, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
• M.S. Science Management, University of Alaska Anchorage
• Master Taxidermist, Apprenticed with Robert McGrull, Irish’s Taxidermy, Anchorage, Alaska
• B.S. Biology, Pennsylvania State University

 

Dr. Hild earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Systems and joined Alaska Pacific University in 2007, bringing over thirty-years of Alaskan experience in health services delivery, administration, and research. Dr. Hild serves as the Director of the Health Services Administration Program. He has conducted health research utilizing Alaska Native traditional knowledge since the late 1970s.

 

Dr. Hild was a member of the American Public Health Association's Task Force which prepared "The National Arctic Health Science Policy." He has received the Alaska Public Health Association's Long-term Service Award. From 2004-07 he was the Principal Investigator for a National Institutes of Health award from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities - Alaska Native Science Research Partnerships for Health. He also has served as Co-PI for a National Library of Medicine award to the UAA/APU Consortium Library for the hosting of the Arctic Health web site to make information on Alaska Native health disparities and traditional knowledge more accessible (www.arctichealth.org).

 

Dr. Hild has worked actively with the Tribal Doctors of the Maniilaq Association and the Tribal Healer Program of the Norton Sound Health Corporation on the use of indigenous knowledge of healing to expand allopathic services. He is the Coordinator of the State funded Rural Alaska Hospital Internship Program to offer graduate students experiential learning.