Dr. Michael Warren is Chief Medical and Health Officer for March of Dimes.  He leads the organization’s programmatic, policy, research, and innovation initiatives and serves as the principal medical/ public health spokesperson.  The mission of March of Dimes is to end preventable infant and maternal mortality and close the health equity gap.

Previously, Dr. Warren served as Associate Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Under his leadership, MCHB's budget grew by 31% to $1.7B, with four new legislative authorities and multiple new/expanded programmatic initiatives, including a pediatric pandemic network, a national maternal mental health hotline, and a doubling of the evidence-based home visiting program with new state matching grants. MCHB’s programs reached 99% of infants, 93% of pregnant women, & 62% of children nationwide.

Before joining HRSA, Dr. Warren served as Tennessee’s Deputy Commissioner for Population Health. He led improvements in infant safe sleep, breastfeeding rates, early elective deliveries, newborn screening transit times, electronic systems for WIC and vital records registration, and established the first-ever real-time public health surveillance for neonatal abstinence syndrome.

A board-certified pediatrician, he completed his residency, chief residency, academic general pediatrics fellowship, and master’s in public health at Vanderbilt where he also served on the clinical faculty. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and graduated with Honors in Psychology from Wake Forest University.  In addition to his March of Dimes role, Dr. Warren serves as Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.  He previously served as President of the AMCHP Board of Directors.