Michael Warren

Dr. Michael Warren is a nationally recognized pediatrician and population health senior executive. He is the Chief Medical and Health Officer for March of Dimes, which is focused on ending preventable maternal health risks and deaths, ending preventable preterm birth and infant deaths, and closing the health equity gap. Dr. Warren leads the Mission Department, is the principal medical spokesperson, and works to enhance integration, innovation, and inclusion across all March of Dimes programs. 

Prior to joining March of Dimes, Dr. Warren served as Associate Administrator of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), part of the US Department of Health & Human Services. Under Dr. Warren’s leadership, MCHB launched an ambitious strategic plan focused on accelerating progress on persistent MCH challenges by working upstream & partnering with states, communities, and people with lived experience. From FY18 to FY24, MCHB's budget grew by 31%, to $1.7B, with four new legislative authorities & multiple new and expanded programmatic initiatives, including a pediatric pandemic network, a national maternal mental health hotline, & a doubling of the evidence-based home visiting program with a new matching grant opportunity for states. MCHB’s programs reached over 60M people annually, including 99% of all infants, 93% of pregnant women, & 62% of children, including children with special health needs.

Before joining HRSA, Dr. Warren served as Deputy Commissioner for Population Health at the TN Department of Health. There he made improvements across the state in the areas of safe sleep policies, breastfeeding rates, decreased early elective deliveries, newborn screening transit times, electronic systems for WIC & vital records registration, & establishing the first-ever real-time public health surveillance system for neonatal abstinence syndrome.

He is a board-certified pediatrician and completed his residency, chief residency, academic general pediatrics fellowship, and master’s in public health at Vanderbilt University 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.