Donald Warne
Physician and Advocate
Prescribing Equity: Dr. Warne’s Healing Vision
The primary focus of my professional career is to improve health in Indigenous populations. I serve as a consultant and/or board member to a multitude of health agencies and advocacy organizations, including the national boards of March of Dimes, Public Health Foundation, and American Cancer Society, and several local and regional boards in North Dakota. In nearly all, I am the only American Indian person. At the University of North Dakota we offer the nation’s only Indigenous Health PhD and the only Master of Public Health with an Indigenous health specialization.
I worked for several years as a primary care physician with the Gila River Health Care Corporation in Arizona, as a staff clinician with the National Institutes of Health, and on the Indian Legal Program Faculty with the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. I have also served as a Health Policy Research Director for the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona and Executive Director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board.
“My hope is that the lasting legacy will be reflected in the remarkable work of the next generation of health professionals who are well trained in Indigenous health and that the future will have Indigenous health interests well represented in all aspects of health systems and professional organizations.”
