Warren Jones

MD, FAAFP

Warren Jones is a family physician and retired Captain in the U.S. Navy, and is the founding Executive Director of the Mississippi Institute for the Improvement of Geographical Minority Health Disparities at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is a Professor of Family Medicine and a Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Senior Health Policy Advisor. Jones is an assistant clinical professor of Family Medicine at Howard University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.

He was most recently Executive Director of the Division of Medicaid in the Office of the Governor of Mississippi, the state’s health program for over 768,000 indigent Mississippians. He serves on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He also serves as Chair Designee of the Advisory Council to the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also serves on the Board of Trustees for his Alma Mater, Dillard University in New Orleans, LA.

He is currently a member or the National Advisory Board of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, the National Commission on Prevention Priorities, the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Diabetes Foundation and has previously served on the Board of the National Health Council and the National Advisory Council to Rewarding Results, an advisory panel to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California Health Foundation which led to the development of the Pay for Performance initiative in health care.