Donald Warne, MD, MPH

Oglala Lakota

Donald Warne, MD, MPH (Oglala Lakota) serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Indigenous Health and is a tenured, Full-Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD where he also serves as the Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy. Dr. Warne is also the Senior Policy Advisor to the Great Plains Tribal Leader’s Health Board in Rapid City, SD. Dr. Warne is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, SD and comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men.

Donald Warne received his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1995 and his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 2002. His work experience includes: several years as a primary care physician with the Gila River Health Care Corporation in Arizona; Staff Clinician with the National Institutes of Health; Indian Legal Program Faculty with the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; Health Policy Research Director for Inter Tribal Council of Arizona; Executive Director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board; Chair of the Department of Public Health at North Dakota State University; and Indigenous Health Department Chair and Associate Dean of the School of Medicine & Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota. Dr. Warne is also a member of the Stanford University Alumni Hall of Fame.

Professional activities include:

• Member, Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Behavioral Health Disorders, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
• Member, Culture of Health Advisory Committee, National Academy of Medicine
• Member, Climate Communities Network, National Academy of Medicine
• Councilor, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health
• Member, Framing the Future 2030 Steering Committee, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health; Inclusive Excellence
• Member, Indigenous Health, Education, and Resources Taskforce (IHEART)
• Member, Group on Diversity and Inclusion, Association of American Medical Colleges
• Member, Board of Directors, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
• Member, Health Equity Advisory Committee, HealthAffairs
• Member, International Advisory Committee, Australian Journal of Rural Health