Karol Dixon is Oregon Health Authority’s new Tribal Affairs director, serving as a liaison for tribes and a senior advisor to the OHA Director.
“We are so fortunate to have someone with Karol’s experience to work with Oregon’s tribes,” says OHA Director Lynne Saxton. “She will help ensure that we provide access to better health for everyone in Oregon.”
Dixon is Deg Hit’an Athabascan and is an enrolled member of the Shageluk
Native Village in Alaska. She has worked with and for tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and brings experience in Medicaid policy, tribal self-governance, national tribal budget formulation and health care improvement. She has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Alaska Anchorage, a law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law and is completing her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She spent her first year of law school at the University of Oregon, and while there spent time visiting Oregon tribes.
“I’m thrilled to be working with Oregon tribes and plan to visit them all right away to get to know them, as well as discuss their goals and concerns,” says Dixon. “I am deeply committed to working with tribes and improving health and health care for Indian people.”
Dixon’s first day in Salem was Tuesday, Jan. 19.
