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Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Health Services Administration

Meet the Program Director

Dr. Carl M. Hild joined Alaska Pacific University in 2007, bringing over thirty-years of Alaskan experience in health services delivery, administration, and research. He has conducted health research utilizing Alaska Native traditional knowledge since the late 1970s.

He was the Director of the Children's Receiving Home, and the Health Education Program for the North Slope Borough's Health and Social Services Agency, for which he later served as its Deputy Director for Social Health Services. Dr. Hild was a member of the Barrow Volunteer Fire Department, an EMT II, and an EMT I instructor and Certifying Officer. He received the 1981 Governors EMS Provider Award for the under- sea- ice cold-water, near-drowning rescue of a Barrow teenager.

Dr. Hild served as the Business Manager and later as the Executive Director of the Alaska Health Project working to assure safer work places and addressing environmental contaminants in subsistence species. He was the Biologist / Planner for the Indigenous People's Council for Marine Mammals within the Rural Alaska Community Action Program. He received special commendation from the Alaska Native Harbor Seal Commission for his work in helping them establish their non-profit organization.

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. He was twice appointed by the Governor to sit on the State Emergency Response Commission. He has served on a number US national delegations to the meetings of the eight-nation Arctic Council. He was the lead author on two Arctic Council reports; one dealt with the state of telemedicine in the Far North, and one was on the human health factors that contribute to sustainable development. He was requested to sit as a US team member during bi-national negotiations with Canada on a collaborative framework for indigenous peoples' health research.

For the past decade Dr. Hild has been a Senior Research Associate and subsequently the Associate Director of the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies with the University of Alaska Anchorage. He was instrumental in establishing the Physician Assistant Degree Completion Program and the Masters in Public Health that formed the foundation for the Department of Health Sciences for which he served as the initial Acting Chair. He was appointed to the UAA Task Force for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship and to the role of facilitator for the community-based Health Research Think Tank.

During the past four years he has been 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. This endeavor educated Alaska Natives on how to conduct health research and non-Natives in how to conduct research within Native communities. He also has served as Co-PI for a National Library of Medicine award to the APU/UAA 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 sits as an Alternate on the Alaska Regional Hospital's Institutional Review Board. He serves on the Cook Inlet Keeper Technical Advisory Board. He has been appointed as the Historian for the American Society for Circumpolar Health and the International Union for Circumpolar Health. He has served on the Aleutian / Pribilof Islands Association committees on the nuclear legacy at Amchitka Island and for their endeavors on developing community-based nutrition risk and benefits educational materials. He served on the Alaska District Council of Laborers' Amchitka Workers' Medical Screening Program, which has documented health histories and assured medical compensation for workers impacted from nuclear materials exposure. He 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.

Education -

Bachelor of Science - Biology - Pennsylvania State University - Special course work in Arctic mammalian physiology and biotelemetry

Masters of Science in Science Management - University of Alaska Anchorage School of Engineering - Special coursework in Arctic health research administration and management

Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Systems - Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center - Engaging Inupiaq values in land management for health through an action research appreciative inquiry process.