Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
Janelle Ali-Dinar, PhD, serves as Chief Executive Officer of Tribal Health, where responsibilities include managing healthcare services, leadership development, and outreach initiatives across multiple sectors. Recognized as an award-winning healthcare leader, Janelle has extensive experience in various healthcare roles, including COO at SelfCare for HealthCare, overseeing population health strategies and wellness programs, and COO at MedFirst Partners, focusing on Direct Primary Care and rural health services. Prior positions include Chief Administrative Officer at OBSTETRICIANS & GYNECOLOGISTS, VP of Population Health at MYGENETX WELLNESS, and various leadership roles at HSC Consulting and CHI, where strategic oversight of rural health initiatives and advocacy efforts was paramount. Janelle’s career demonstrates a commitment to health equity, innovation, and workforce development across diverse populations and healthcare settings.
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Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
Today, the Ponca Tribe is in the process of restoration as is so aptly expressed by its mission statement: We, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, in order to restore all rights previously held by our people and their descendants, promote peace, prosperity, happiness, and the general welfare of the citizens of our Tribe and our posterity: to exercise home rule, to conserve and perpetuate all worthy traditions and cultural elements of our people long established by customs; to improve our social order; to protect our rights as individuals; to promote business enterprise, both cooperative and individual; to promote educational opportunities for all Northern Ponca people; to consolidate our land holdings; and to provide for the inheritance of both real and personal property. Currently, the main concerns of the Ponca Tribe are twofold: 1) To provide for the needs of its people, namely, through the programs offered by the Tribe 2) To preserve what remains of its culture. Although lacking any land base, the Tribe does have designated “service area" counties: twelve in Nebraska, one in South Dakota, and two in Iowa. The Tribe also has office sites located in Niobrara, Norfolk, Lincoln, and Omaha, in Nebraska, and Carter Lake and Sioux City office in Iowa.