| Dr. Cora Neumann is a public health practitioner with over twenty years of experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, including working at the U.S. State Department, the RAND Corporation, the Montana Public Health Institute, the Bush Institute, Care(dot)com, and the World Health Organization. She currently serves as Chief Community Health Officer for the Native American Development Corporation, and she was recently elected as a State Senator in Montana. Throughout her career, she has designed strategies and brought together local, Tribal and national leaders to deliver quality, accessible health care and social services to underserved communities. In 2009, Cora launched the Global First Ladies Alliance in partnership with the offices of First Ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, and has worked with more than 80 first ladies around the world to support their delivery of critical social services to their populations. Cora brings her sense of public service to her professional life, including serving on the board of Columbia University School of Public Health, Nitsiniikookit - a storytelling non-profit led by award-winning Blackfeet filmmakers Ivan and Ivy MacDonald, and serving as a former regional Vice President of the Montana Public Health Association. Cora has a master's degree in public health from Columbia University and doctorate in public health and development from the University of Oxford (topic- revitalization of Indigenous knowledge for public health). Cora grew up and is based in Bozeman, Montana surrounded by four generations of family, from her grandmother to her two children. |