Donald Warne, MD, MPH (Oglala Lakota)

Dr. Donald Warne leads the American Indian Medical Education Strategies (AIMES) Alliance as its Convener. Currently serving as the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, he is an acclaimed physician, one of the world’s preeminent scholars in Indigenous health, health education, policy, and equity as well as a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Dr. Warne will also serve as Johns Hopkins University’s new Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy. Dr. Warne comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men, and is a celebrated researcher of chronic health inequities. He is also an educational leader who created the first Indigenous health-focused Master of Public Health and PhD programs in the U.S. or Canada at the North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota, respectively. Dr. Warne previously served at the University of North Dakota as professor of Family and Community Medicine and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as director of the Indians Into Medicine and Public Health programs at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.