Biography
Dr. Hautala joined the Center for American Indian Health Great Lakes Hub in July 2020 as an Assistant Scientist. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. After completing graduate school, he was a postdoctoral scholar in a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded T32 program at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His research focuses on contextualizing causes and consequences of substance misuse across the life course among North American Indigenous populations (i.e., American Indian and Canadian First Nations). His current work emphasizes multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches to evaluate ongoing community-driven opioid programming in rural and urban tribal communities in Minnesota. In addition, he is co-investigator of the Healing Pathways longitudinal study on which he is one of the lead data analysts.