Donald Warne, chair of the Department of Public Health, is scheduled to take part in a town hall event kicking off a two-day health summit hosted by President Bill Clinton and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton.
The town hall, titled “Addressing Health Disparities Through Technology and Innovation,” is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 24, at 9 p.m. Chelsea Clinton will moderate the town hall, which is part of the fifth annual Clinton Health Matters Initiative Summit. The event convenes leaders from a variety of health fields, to identify strategies for systemic health improvement and ways to implement those strategies.
The summit, including Warne’s talk, can be viewed live online here.
“The theme for the summit is on using technology and innovation to reduce health disparities,” Warne said. “I will be addressing both the challenges of using newer technologies in underserved communities as well as the innovative public health programming we are conducting at NDSU to address health inequities in American Indian and other underserved populations.”
Other town hall panelists are:
- Vivek H. Murthy, vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and 19th Surgeon General of the United States
- Anya Pogharian, inventor and student at Marianapolis College
- Nate Gross, co-founder of Rock Health
- Kyu Rhee, chief health officer at IBM Corp.
Key themes at the 2016 summit include communities as centers of health innovation, the quest for longevity and healthy aging, health-tech innovation and addressing health disparities through entrepreneurship.
Warne is associate professor and holds the Mary J. Berg Distinguished Professorship in Women’s Health. He serves as the senior policy adviser to the Great Plains Chairmen’s Health Board. Warne also is an adjunct clinical professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law where he teaches American Indian health policy. He is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men. Warne earned a medical degree from Stanford University in 1995 and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University in 2002.
The NDSU Department of Public Health offers on-campus and distance education with specializations in American Indian Public Health, Public Health in Clinical Systems, Health Promotion and Management of Infectious Diseases.
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