Delight Satter
Senior Health Scientist, National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Delight Satter, MPH, is an elder and member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and a senior health scientist in the CDC’s National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce.
Prior to joining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Satter directed the American Indian Research Program at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and remains a faculty associate. Her primary focus was on the health and well-being of urban and rural/reservation American Indians. Satter is a founding key staff member and advisor to the California Health Interview Survey.
Satter’s leadership on health equity is extensive. She has co-led the CDC/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) tribal data modernization initiative and provided subject-matter expertise to the Hear Her Campaign, which raises awareness about urgent maternal warning signs and improves communication between health care providers and their patients.
She has served on the principal authorship team for the CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication and as co-author and implementation working group member for the White House Indigenous Knowledge Guidance.
She directs and serves as senior author on multiple ongoing studies on a wide array of topics, such as youth well-being and prevention of adverse childhood effects, violence prevention including missing and murdered Indigenous people, public health ethics and public health population investments and population outcomes, and applied workforce training.