Kyle X Hill

PH 783: American Indian Health Policy (Synchronous), Fall 2022, Co-Instructor, University of North Dakota, Indigenous Health PhD program, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences

PH 765: Indigenous Research Methods (Synchronous), Summer 2022, Instructor, University of North Dakota, Indigenous Health PhD program, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences

PH 582: Social and Ecological Determinants of Indigenous Health (Synchronous), Spring 2022, Instructor, University of North Dakota, Master of Public Health Program, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences

PH 582: Social and Ecological Determinants of Indigenous Health (Asynchronous), Spring 2022, Instructor, University of North Dakota, Master of Public Health Program, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences

PH 584: Public Health Programming in Indigenous Health (Asynchronous), Spring 2022, Instructor, University of North Dakota, Master of Public Health Program, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences

PH 510: Public Health and Health Care Systems (Synchronous) Fall 2021, Co-instructor, University of North Dakota, Master of Public Health Program, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Mental Health Care and Delivery in American Indian Communities (221.673.13), Winter Institute 2021, Co-Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Mental Health Care and Delivery in American Indian Communities (221.673.13), Winter Institute 2017, Co-Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Introduction to American Indian Health Research Ethics (221.666.11), Summer Institute 2015,

Co-Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Mental Health Care and Delivery in American Indian Communities (221.673.13), Winter Institute 2015, Co-Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Social Psychology and Healthcare (SAPh 8810) Spring 2014, Co-Instructor, University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy

My research interests parallel my own experiences as an Indigenous person and scholar as well as my clinical experiences. In particular, I am active in developing a research agenda investigating social and ecological determinants of health in efforts of achieving health equity in Indigenous communities. In many cases, this work unfolds while implementing decolonizing frameworks that contribute to the efficacy and applicability of Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies in alleviating public health problems and substantiating the efficacy of culturally appropriate treatment modalites. In addition, I am engaged community-based participatory research (CBPR) frameworks to elaborate on the mechanisms by which cultural belief systems can function as foundational frameworks to establish prevention and intervention programs within American Indian communities. This extends also to critical examination of the ethics of health research with American Indian, First Nations and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island, from Indigenous perspectives. More recently, these research areas have led me to establishing a research program that acknowledges Indigenous Ecological Traditional Knowledges and traditional cultural practices as critical in the efforts to adapt and mitigate climate change and environmental injustice within Indigenous communities. 

Hill, K. (2022). Indigenous Climate Justice: Anticolonial Prescriptions for the Anthropocene. ReFrame: Mental Health and Climate Justice, The Mariwala Health Intitiative Journal. Submitted for publication.

Augustinavicious, J., Graef, V., et. al., Hill, K., (2021). Mental health and psychosocial support research in the context of the climate crisis: A modified Delphi study. Intervention: The Journal of Mental Health & Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Area, 20(2), pp. 68-80.

Grubin, F., Maudrie, T. L., Neuner, S., Conrad, M., Waugh, E., Barlow, A., Coser, A., Hill, K., Pioche, S., Haroz, E., & O'Keefe, V. M. (2022). Development and Cultural Adaptation of Psychological First Aid for COVID-19 Frontline Workers in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities. Journal of prevention (2022), 1-21. 

Brockie, T., Hill, K., Davidson, P., Decker, E., Krienke, L. K., Nelson, K. E., Nicholson, N., Werk, A. M., Wilson, D., Around Him, D., (2022). Strategies for culturally safe research with Native American communities: An integrative review. Contemporary Nurse. 58 (1) https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2021.2015414.

Walls, M., Hautala, D., Cole, A., Kosabuski, L., Weiss, N., Hill, K., & the Healing Pathways Team (2022). Socio-Cultural Integration and Holistic Health among Indigenous Young Adults. BMC Public Health. 22:1002.

Cwik, M., Doty, S. B., Hinton, A., Goklish, N., Ivanich, J., Hill, K., Lee, A., Craig, M. (2021). Community Perspectives on Social Influences on Suicide within a Native American Reservation. Qualitative Health Research, 32 (1), pp. 16-30, DOI: 10.1177/10497323211045646.

Hill, K., Eck, K. V., Goklish, N., Larzelere-Hinton, F., Cwik, M. (2018). Factor Structure and Validity of the SIQ-JR in a Southwest American Indian Tribe. Psychological Services. Published online November 26, 2018.

Cwik, M. F., Rosenstock, S., Tingey, L., Goklish, N., Larzelere, F., Suttle, R., Haroz, E., Hill, K., Craig, M., Barlow, A. (2018). Characteristics of Substance Use and Self-Injury Among American Indian Adolescents Who Have Engaged in Binge Drinking. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 25(2), 1-19.

Sarche, M., Tafoya, G., Croy, C., Hill, K. X. (2017). American Indian and Alaska Native boys: Early Childhood Risk and Resilience amidst Context and Culture. Infant Mental Health Journal, 38(1), 115-127.

Turner, E. A., Cheng, H. L., Llamas, J. D., Tran, A. G.T.T, Hill, K. X., Fretts, J. M., Mercado, A. (2016). Disparities in the Use of Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment Among Ethnic Minorities: Current Status and Implications for Care. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 12, 199-220.

Johnson-Jennings, M., Tarraf, W., Hill, K., Gonzalez, H. (2014). United States colorectal screening practices among American Indians/Alaska Natives, Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites in the New Millennium (2001 to 2010). Cancer.00, 1-8

Book Chapters

Hill, K., Russett, H., (2022). Landback: Climate Justice and the Confluence of Indigenous Youth Mental Health and the Anthropocene . Young People’s Mental Health and Climate Change: Responses from Many Disciplines. Elizabeth Haase, MD and Kelsey Hudson, PhD, co-editors (In preparation).

Redvers, N., Aubrey, P., Celidwen, Y., Hill, K. (2022). Indigenous Peoples: Traditional knowledges, climate change, and health. Forthcoming.

Holfeld, B., Hill, K., & Ferraro, F, R. (2013).  Cognitive Psychology.  In K. D. Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp.189-192).  New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell

Technical Reports

World Health Organization (2022). Mental health and Climate Change: Policy Brief

Walls, M., Sittner; K., Weiss, N., Hill, K., Hautala, D., and Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health Great Lakes Team (2021). Healing Pathways Wave 10 Technical Report for Tribal Communities (White Earth, MN; and Red Lake, MN).     

NCAI Policy Research Center (2018). Diabetes and Behavioral Health Comorbidity: Advancing the

Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda (2018). Washington, DC: National Congress of American Indians

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS  

Hill, K. (2022). Restor(y)ing relationship to land as an Indigenous determinant of health. Presentation National Tribal & Indigenous Climate Conference, St. Paul, MN, September 1st, 2022.

Hill, K. (2022). Social & Ecological Determinants of Indigenous Health: Reclaiming Ways Past for a Better Future. Invited presentation for the Indigenous Public Health Leaders Program, American Indian Public Health Resource Center, North Dakota State University, August, 17th, 2022.

 Hill, K. (2022). Social and Ecological Determinants of Health and Impacts on Behavioral Health Delivery in American Indian Communities. Invited panel presentation for the Tribal Health Equity Summit, National Indian Health Board, August 16th, 2022.  

Hill, K. (2022). Keeping our Planet in Mind: Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Sub-populations. Invited panel presentation for the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, April 27th, 2022.  

Hill, K. (2022). Social & Ecological Determinants of Indigenous Health: Reclaiming Ways Past for a Better Future. Invited presentation, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN, April 12th, 2022.  

Hill, K. (2022). Asemaa: Decolonizing Tobacco Use in Northern Plains American Indians. Invited seminar at the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Tobacco Research Programs Seminar Series 2021-2022.  

Hill, K., Denckla, C. A., Eaton, J., Cunsolo, A., Augustinavicius, J., (2021). Columbia University Seminar Series on Global Mental Health: Climate Change and Global Mental Health. Invited panel presentation at Columbia University, December 7th, 2021.  

Hill, K., Fairbanks, A., Donaghy, N., (2021). Climate Justice on Turtle Island: Truth & Reconciliation for the Land and Resilience of Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledges. Presented at United Nations COP26, Glasgow, Scotland, November 8, 2021. 

Hill, K. (2021). Invited presentation. Indigenous Self-Determination and Healing in the Wake of The Assimilation Era. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, September 1, 2021.  

Hill, K. (2021). Cultural Connectedness, Risk and Protective factors in Substance Use Trajectories in American Indian and First Nations Communities. Invited keynote presentation for Minnesota American Indian Institute on Alcohol and Drug Studies Conference, July 28, 2021.  

Hill, K, et al. (2021). Addressing structural racism in and through work as an Indigenous focused prevention scientist: Opportunities for the new generation of scholars to make change. Panel presentation with National Institutes of Drug Abuse, NIH, Washington D.C. (July 2021).   

Hill, K. (2021). 2021 COVID-19 Mental Health Webinar Series: Historical Trauma. Albuquerque Indian Health Board, Albuquerque, NM (May 2021). 

Hill, K. (2021). Traditional Healing and Mental Health Delivery in Indigenous CommunitiesPresentation for United Nations Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples Rights, Minneapolis, MN. (April 2021).  

Hill, K. (2020). #Landback: Climate change and mental health in American Indian communities.Presentation for Midwest Tribal ECHO, Minneapolis, MN. (August 2020).  

Gonzalez, J., Hill, K., Lomay, V., Ross, R. (2020). Invisible No More: Psychology, American Indians/Alaska Natives and COVID-19. A webinar presented at American Psychological Association. (July 2020) 

Hill K. (2018). Adverse Childhood Experiences and Men’s Health. Invited speaker at Men’s Health Conference, White Mountain Apache Tribal Health, White River, AZ. (June 2018). 

Hill, K., Van Eck, K. Cwik, M., Goklish, N., Larzelere-Hinton, F. (2017). Factor Structure and Validity of the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire-Junior (SIQ-JR) in a Southwestern American Indian Youth Sample. Presented at the 2017 AI/AN National Behavioral Health Conference in Tulsa, OK. (August 2017).  

Hill, K. Wall, M., Whitesell, N. (2016). Diabetes Self-Care in the Context of Loneliness, Historical Loss and Depression in American Indians. Presented at Native Children’s Research Exchange III, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO. (September 2016).

Hill, K., Cwik, M., Goklish, N., Suttle, R., McGuire, C., Tingey, L. Larzelere-Hinton, F. (2015). Social Influences in American Indian Youth Suicide: A Participatory Approach to Identification of Risk. Poster presentation at theNative Children’s Research Exchange II, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO. (September 2015).

Hill, K. (2014). Fostering Cultural Capital and Resilience through Social and Behavioral Research with American Indian Communities. Oral presentation at the Program in Health Disparities Research Monthly Meeting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. (December 2014).

Hill, K. X. & Fellner, K. D. (2014). Decolonizing and Indigenizing psychological research on Turtle Island: A critical multilevel synthesis of the literature. Poster presented at Research for Indigenous Community Health Summit 2014, “Food, Medicine & Other Traditional Sources of Healing”, Minneapolis, MN. (August 2014).

Fellner, K. D. & Hill, K. X. (2014) Indigenizing psychological research: Bringing Indigenous voices into clinical research, education, and practice. Poster presented at Research for Indigenous Community Health Summit 2014, “Food, Medicine & Other Traditional Sources of Healing”, Minneapolis, MN. (August 2014).

Hill, K. (2014). Social and Cultural Protective Factors in American Indian Youth Suicide: Prevention through Local Knowledge. Poster presented at Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE), University of Colorado-Denver,Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver CO.

Hill, K. (2014). Social and Cultural Protective Factors in American Indian Youth Suicide. Poster presented at American Psychological Association, Minority fellowship Program (MFP), Psychology Summer Institute (PSI),Washington DC.

Hill, K. X. & Fellner, K. D. (2014) Decolonizing and Indigenizing psychological research on Turtle Island: A critical multilevel synthesis of the literature. Poster presented at 75th Canadian Psychological Association Convention,Vancouver, BC.

Fellner, K. D. & Hill, K. X. (2014). Indigenizing psychological research: Bringing Indigenous voices into clinical research, education, and practice. Poster presented at 75th Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Vancouver,BC.

Fellner, K., Hill, K. (2014). Indigenous Perspectives on Diversity and Social Justice in Health Education. Workshop presented at World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI.

Hill, K., Fellner, K. (2014). Bridging the Gap: Implementing Culturally Informed Psychoeducational Assessment and Diagnosis with Indigenous Student Populations. Workshop presented at World Indigenous Peoples Conference onEducation, Honolulu, HI.

Hill, K., Fellner, K. (2014). Indigenizing Clinical Research, Education, and Practice in Mental Health: Shifting Paradigms. Workshop presented at World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI

Hill, K., Wheeler, M. Petros, T. Gray, J. Carter, P. & the Native Health Research Team (2013). Bicultural Self-Efficacy and Resilience in Northern Plains American Indians. Selected for presentation at the 2nd annualIndigenous Health Summit at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN.

Postdoctoral Training

2014-2015          Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for American Indian Health – Annie Wauneka Visiting Faculty, Post-Doctoral Fellowship

2013-2014          University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, Research for Indigenous Community Health Center (RICH) - Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Licensure

Licensed Psychologist   Minnesota Board of Psychology     LP#6044(Active) October 2016-October 2022

Other Relevant Training

07/2019    Public Health Training Certificate in American Indian Health, Johns Hopkins University, Center for American Indian Health

HONORS AND AWARDS  

Promoting Indigenous Research Leadership (PIRL) invited participant, Montana State University, October 2021. 

Lighting Up Native Aspirations (LUNA) International Indigenous Research Training program awardee, University of Washington• November 2020-October 2022.

Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators – 2020 YCI fellowship recipient 

Mayo Clinic, Spirit of Eagles Program Travel award to attend Society of Prevention Research 2016 meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 31, 2016 – June 3, 2016.  

University of Colorado, School of Public Health, Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE) post-doctoral Scholar, 2016

 National Institute of Drug Abuse American Indian /Alaska Native Drug Abuse Prevention Research - Travel Award Recipient, Society of Prevention Research Annual Meeting, May 26-29, 2015, Washington DC National Institute on Drug Abuse/Office of Diversity and Health Disparities Grant Writing and Research Development Workshop – Award recipient

University of Colorado, School of Public Health, Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE) Student Scholar 2014& 2015

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health Summer Institute scholarship recipient – 2014

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health Winter Institute scholarship recipient – 2011, 2014, 2017 & 2018.

American Psychological Association, SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program, Psychology Summer Institute Scholar –2014

Oregon Health Sciences University, Summer Research Training Institute for American Indian and Alaska Native HealthProfessionals Scholarship Recipient - 2014

University of Minnesota, Program in Health Disparities Research – Travel Award recipient

Indians Into Psychology Doctoral Education (INPSYDE), University of North Dakota, Ph. D. Graduate 

2013 Allan Allery American Indian Graduate Health Researcher of Promise

Ronald E McNair Program Graduate

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

MPH/2020         Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Public Health

Capstone: Indigenous Resilience: Exploring the Relationship of Cultural Connectedness to concepts of wellness in Great Lakes Anishinaabeg in U.S. and  Canada 

PhD/2013          University of North Dakota, Clinical Psychology

Dissertation: Cultural Hybridization: Bicultural Self-Efficacy and Resilience in Northern Plains American Indians

MA/2009           University of North Dakota, Psychology

BS/2007            University of North Dakota, Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Health/Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, August 2021 – present

Assistant Scientist, Center for American Indian Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, January 2021-August 2021

Associate Faculty, Center for American Indian Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2015-present

Indian Health Service – Dept. of Health and Human Services – Clinical Service obligation 2016-2021

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

American Public Health Association

Member (2021-present)

UN NGO Committee on Indigenous Rights

Member (2021-present)

The MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) Collaborative

Member (2020-present)

American Indian Science and Engineering Society

Sequoyah Fellow (2019-present)

American Psychological Association

Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Div. 45)

Program Co-chair, APA Convention, Denver, CO, 2016.

Minnesota Psychological Association

Member (2015-2016)

Society of Indian Psychologists, University of North Dakota Chapter

President (2010-2011)

Society of Indian Psychologists

Member (2008 – present)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Peer review

Journal of Qualitative Health Research, 2019-present

Journal of Indigenous Research, 2021-present

Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2021-present

Grant proposal review

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - Reviewer

Infant and Childhood Mental Health Grant Program

Summer 2018

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - Reviewer

Circles of Care VII

Winter 2016