Managing in Turbulent Times: Emerging Leaders in Public Health

Alumni

Dwayne Jarman, DVM, MPH

Great Lakes Inter Tribal Council, Wisconsin

 

 

Area of work in public health:

Dr. Dwayne Jarman is the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator (EPC) for the Michigan Tribes and was recently the EPC for the Wisconsin Tribes at the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council. As the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Dr. Jarman advocates for and assists Tribes in preparation for public health emergencies. Dr. Jarman previously worked with four Michigan Tribes preparing community health needs assessments for them. During the summer of 2002, he was a Dr. James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellow at the CDC where he worked on a project on the infectious causes of chronic disease. He graduated from the University of Michigan School of Public Health with an MPH in epidemiology in 2002. At the University of Michigan, Dr. Jarman formed the Native American Public Health Association to increase awareness of American Indian public health needs. Dr. Jarman also has a doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Michigan State University, where he participated in Minority International Research Training grant projects funded by NIH in Thailand. He is licensed to practice veterinary medicine in Wisconsin and Michigan. Dr. Jarman is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa/Chippewa Indians. He intends to apply for the Epidemiologic Intelligence Service at the CDC in 2004.

Personal Information:

Dwayne Jarman is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa/Chippewa Indians and the first person in his family to go to college. He enjoys laughing, making other people laugh, photography, working with electronics and figuring out how things work. He also likes to spend time with his friends and fiancé, who is working on a PhD dissertation in political science at the University of Michigan and clerking for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Dwayne strives to maintain ties with his Tribe and other American Indian communities.

What I would like to get out of this program:

I would like to learn more about the financial and business aspects of public health. In particular I am interested in how to maximize benefits from limited resources, advocate for additional resources, and determine if national emergency preparedness efforts can be used to help develop public health services and infrastructure at Tribes. I would like to learn how to build partnerships among different funding agencies and discover techniques of becoming a liaison between Tribes and federal, state, non-profit, and local agencies. I look forward to meeting all the other participants and determining how we can collaborate during the fellowship and in the future.