Dr. Dillard (Inupiaq Eskimo), Ph.D., is the Research Director of Southcentral Foundation (SCF), a tribally owned and operated health care organization in Anchorage, Alaska. She oversees the direction of a variety of SCF research projects in behavioral health, cancer, and other areas of health disparity conducted by a staff of 25, of whom 75% are Alaska Native or American Indian. She works with SCF’s Board of Directors as they review and consider approval of research involving Alaska Native people in and around Anchorage. Additionally, she serves on the Alaska Area Institutional Review Board and is a Member-at-Large of the National Institutes of Health Tribal Advisory Committee.