Lucas Jacob Trout is lecturer on global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, managing partner at Siamit, and Sayaqagvik director at Maniilaq Social Medicine. In these roles, Lucas leads clinical, research, and training programs focused on supporting rural and tribal health systems through responsive, equitable, and lasting community partnerships.
Lucas grew up in the Midwest as one of eight siblings. He spent his early career working as a firefighter and EMT in the Mountain West and Alaska, where he discovered a love for the crossroads of health care and social science. He went on to study clinical psychology at Seattle University before returning to Kotzebue to found Maniilaq Social Medicine and Siamit in 2016.
Since then, Lucas and the Siamit family have worked to build a model for tribal health partnerships around the principles of Indigenous leadership, social medicine, and clinical excellence. For this work, Lucas was named a Young Leader in Primary Care by the World Health Organization. In his free time, Lucas likes to roast coffee, read fiction, and skijor with his dog, Casimir.
Lucas is principal investigator at Siamit Lab, a research program between Maniilaq Social Medicine and the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery. Lucas’s lab is focused on building academic-community teams to map and address the social determinants of health in rural Alaska. With Corina Kramer, Lucas co-directs the Della Keats Fellowship in Indigenous Health Equity, a unique postgraduate research fellowship for early-career American Indian and Alaska Native health workers.
Trout LJ, Weisman A, Miller JS, Kramer C, Keshavjee S, Kleinman AM, Kulkarni S, Baldwin TU, Tobey ML, Buffey T, Harris NS. Siamit: A novel academic-tribal health partnership in Northwest Alaska. Acad Med 2021;96(11):1560-1563.
Trout LJ, Kleinman A. Covid-19 requires a social medicine response. Frontiers in Sociology. 2020;5(579991):1-4.
https://www.frontiersin.org/article
Trout LJ, Weisman A, Miller JS, Kramer C, Keshavjee S, Kleinman AM, Kulkarni S, Baldwin TU, Tobey ML, Buffey T, Harris NS. Siamit: A novel academic-tribal health partnership in Northwest Alaska. Acad Med 2021;96(11):1560-1563.
Trout LJ, Kleinman A. Covid-19 requires a social medicine response. Frontiers in Sociology. 2020;5(579991):1-4.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.579991/full
Trout LJ and Wexler LM. Arctic suicide, social medicine, and the purview of care in global mental health. Health Hum Rights J 2020;22(1):77-89.
Trout LJ. From rural Alaska to global primary health care: Lessons from the Alaska Tribal Health System. World Health Organization Young Leaders Blog. 2019.
Trout LJ, McEachern D, Mullany A, White L, Wexler LM. Decoloniality as a framework for Indigenous youth suicide prevention pedagogy: Promoting community conversations about research to end suicide. Am J Community Psychol. 2018; 62: 396-406.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30561803/
Trout LJ, Kirk T, Erickson M, Kleinman A. Place-based continuing medical education in the rural North. Northern Public Affairs. 2018;6(2):41-44.
Trout LJ, Kramer K, Fischer L. Social medicine in practice: Realizing the American Indian and Alaska Native right to health. Health Hum Rights. 2018;20(2):19-30.
Trout, LJ, Wexler LM, Moses JM. Beyond ‘two worlds’: Identity narratives and the aspirational futures of Alaska Native youth. Transcult Psychiatry. 2018;55(6):800-820.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363461518786991
Wexler LM, Barnett J, Trout LJ, Moto R. Making a difference: How Northwest Alaska is working to reduce youth suicide. Northern Public Affairs. 2018;5(3):29-34.
Trout LJ, Salters KJ, Inglis R, Tobey M, Kasper J. Social medicine grand rounds: A collaborative education hub to promote action on social determinants of health across community sectors in rural Alaska. Social Medicine. 2018;11(3):1-10.
https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/965
Wexler LM, Trout LJ, Rataj S, Kirk T, Westbury N, Moto R et al. Promoting community conversations about research to end suicide. Int J Circumpolar Health 2017:76(1):1345277.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28762305/
Wexler LM, Kalpana P, Rataj S, Trout LJ, Poudel KC, Woods M et al. Preliminary evaluation of a school-based youth leadership and prevention program in rural Alaska Native communities. School Ment Health 2017; 9(2):172-183.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12310-016-9203-2
s/10.3389/fsoc.2020.579991/full
Trout LJ and Wexler LM. Arctic suicide, social medicine, and the purview of care in global mental health. Health Hum Rights J 2020;22(1):77-89.
Trout LJ. From rural Alaska to global primary health care: Lessons from the Alaska Tribal Health System. World Health Organization Young Leaders Blog. 2019.
Trout LJ, McEachern D, Mullany A, White L, Wexler LM. Decoloniality as a framework for Indigenous youth suicide prevention pedagogy: Promoting community conversations about research to end suicide. Am J Community Psychol. 2018; 62: 396-406.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30561803/
Trout LJ, Kirk T, Erickson M, Kleinman A. Place-based continuing medical education in the rural North. Northern Public Affairs. 2018;6(2):41-44.
Trout LJ, Kramer K, Fischer L. Social medicine in practice: Realizing the American Indian and Alaska Native right to health. Health Hum Rights. 2018;20(2):19-30.
Trout, LJ, Wexler LM, Moses JM. Beyond ‘two worlds’: Identity narratives and the aspirational futures of Alaska Native youth. Transcult Psychiatry. 2018;55(6):800-820.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363461518786991
Wexler LM, Barnett J, Trout LJ, Moto R. Making a difference: How Northwest Alaska is working to reduce youth suicide. Northern Public Affairs. 2018;5(3):29-34.
Trout LJ, Salters KJ, Inglis R, Tobey M, Kasper J. Social medicine grand rounds: A collaborative education hub to promote action on social determinants of health across community sectors in rural Alaska. Social Medicine. 2018;11(3):1-10.
https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/965
Wexler LM, Trout LJ, Rataj S, Kirk T, Westbury N, Moto R et al. Promoting community conversations about research to end suicide. Int J Circumpolar Health 2017:76(1):1345277.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28762305/
Wexler LM, Kalpana P, Rataj S, Trout LJ, Poudel KC, Woods M et al. Preliminary evaluation of a school-based youth leadership and prevention program in rural Alaska Native communities. School Ment Health 2017; 9(2):172-183.
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