Donald Warne, MD, MPH, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, SD, is a distinguished public health expert and advocate for Indigenous health. He is the co-director of the Center for Indigenous Health and a tenured full professor and provost fellow at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

Warne's extensive career spans roles in healthcare, research and academia, reflecting his commitment to Indigenous health. He served as a primary care physician for the Gila River Health Care Corporation in Arizona and later as a staff clinician with the National Institutes of Health. Warne heads the Great Plains Hub of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, which through partnering with local stakeholders, traditional healers and traditional medicine the Center aims to help create sustainable change so that community members live longer, healthier lives.