Daniel E. Dawes

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Daniel E. Dawes, J.D., is a healthcare and public health scholar, health policy expert, educator, and researcher. He serves as professor and founding dean of the School of Global Health at Meharry Medical College, as well as senior vice president of Global Health at the same institution. Previously, he was the executive director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute [1] and a professor of health law, policy, and management at Morehouse School of Medicine, where he also served as vice president.

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Career and research work

Before his academic roles, Dawes worked on health equity initiatives at the American Psychological Association, Premier, Inc., the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and the U.S. House of Representatives. He advises policymakers at various levels, as well as think tanks, foundations, corporations, and nonprofit organizations.[ citation needed ]

His research focuses on health reform, health equity, mental and behavioral health inequities, social and political determinants of health, poverty, and health system transformation. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Journal of Public Health , JAMA , The Lancet , Health Affairs , American Journal of Preventive Medicine , and Oxford University Press. Dawes has also been involved in collaborative efforts like the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network and the Health Equity Leadership & Exchange Network (HELEN). [2]

Dawes played a key role in the development and negotiation of several federal policies, including the Mental Health Parity Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, and the health equity-focused provisions of the Affordable Care Act. [3] [4] He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021 [5] and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. [6] Additionally, he served as an advisor to The White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force and as an appointed member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advisory committee to the director, where he co-chairs the Health Equity Working Group. [7] Additionally, he is an appointed member of the National Institutes of Health's National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Daniel E. Dawes Named Director of Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine". Morehouse School of Medicine.
  2. ↑ Morris, Ken (20 January 2023). "Meharry to launch new global health equity institute led by health policy expert Daniel E. Dawes". Meharry Medical College.
  3. ↑ "Author Daniel E. Dawes comes to the defense of Obamacare". National Catholic Reporter.
  4. ↑ "Law grad fights for better healthcare for the economically disenfranchised". Nebraska Today.
  5. ↑ "National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members". NAM.
  6. ↑ "Directory of Fellows and Members" (PDF). media.nyam.org. 2016-08-08.
  7. ↑ Valle, Mahia (20 October 2021). "Daniel E. Dawes Appointed by the Biden-Harris Administration to the CDC's Federal Advisory Committee". Satcher Health Leadership Institute.
  8. ↑ "Council Member Profiles | National Institute of Nursing Research". www.ninr.nih.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  9. ↑ Cerminara, Kathy L. (October 2017). "Daniel E. Dawes, 150 Years of ObamaCare (Johns Hopkins University Press 2016)". Journal of Legal Medicine. 37 (3–4): 613–619. doi:10.1080/01947648.2017.1400891. ISSN   0194-7648.
  10. ↑ Bell, Jonathan (1 February 2018). "Daniel E. Dawes, 150 Years of ObamaCare". Social History of Medicine. 31 (1): 200–201. doi:10.1093/shm/hkx068.
  11. ↑ Lin, Kenneth (2022). "The Political Determinants of Health". Family Medicine. 54 (1): 65–66. doi:10.22454/FamMed.2022.776082.
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