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Fellow's Spotlight on Dr. LaQuita Jones
This month's Fellows Spotlight goes to Keystone Symposia Fellow Dr. LaQuita Jones! Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor...
David Wilson, PhD
Associate VP for Health Research, Chair of Indigenous HealthUniversity of North Dakota
A tribal citizen of the Navajo Nation with affiliations to Tódich’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan) and Honágháahnii (One-Walks-Around Clan), Dr. Wilson joins UND from Washington D.C., where he served as a senior policy advisor with the White House Council on Native American Affairs. He previously held the position of the inaugural Director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Tribal Health Research Office.
In his dual appointment within the office of UND’s Vice President for Research and Economic Development (VPRED) and the School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Dr. Wilson provides strategic leadership for all aspects of health research across the University and specifically within the Department of Indigenous Health.
