Grand opening of Great Plains Hub for Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health

Members of the Great Plains Hub team, from left, are Dr. Donald Warne, Dr. Jordyn Gunville-Pourier, Dr. Courtney Claussen, and Loretta Grey Cloud. Not pictured are Dr. Allison Kelliher and Brinda Sivaramakrishnan

RAPID CITY—The Grand Opening of the Great Plains Hub of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health will be Friday, September 20, 2024, at Mandalay Plaza, in Rapid City, SD.
Donald Warne, MD, MPH, an acclaimed physician and public health researcher, will lead the new hub and its team of Indigenous and allied researchers. The Hub is initiating studies that harness cultural strengths to address health issues including addiction, cancer, diabetes, and infant and child mortality. Dr. Warne, who is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, SD, serves as co-director for the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University. The Center for Indigenous Health, based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, has partnered with American Indian and Alaska Native communities across the U.S. for over three decades to improve health and well-being.
The Center’s new hub, based in Rapid City, SD and covering Montana, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, builds on extensive partnerships with Tribal Nations, Tribal health coalitions, regional health systems, universities, and Indigenous-led nonprofits. Together, this coalition is launching a novel agenda for public health research anchored in traditionally relevant approaches. The Hub will also be a locus for training, policy advocacy, and knowledge sharing to advance Tribal health equity. Learn more about the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health at cih.jhu.edu.

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