PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND/HARVARD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN MINORITY HEALTH POLICY

FELLOWS' BIOS: 1996-1997

YVETTE ROUBIDEAUX, M.D., M.P.H.

Director, Indian Health Service, Rockville, MD

Dr. Roubideaux is the first American Indian woman to head the Indian Health Service since it was founded in 1955.

She served most recently as an assistant professor in the department of family & community medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and was also an assistant professor at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Dr. Roubideaux’s work includes teaching, research, and program development in the areas of diabetes in American Indians and Indian health policy. She has worked in a leadership capacity on numerous national committees and projects related to diabetes, and is currently Co-Director of the Coordinating Center for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians Competitive Grant Program Demonstration Project, which is a congressionally-funded diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention project in 66 Indian health sites across the country. She recruits American Indian students into the health professions as the Director of the University of Arizona/Inter Tribal Council of Arizona (UA/ITCA) Indians Into Medicine Program and the Director of the UA/ITCA American Indian Research Center for Health Training Program. She was President of the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP), a past member of the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Minority Health, and was named the 2004 AAIP Indian Physician of the Year. In 2001, Dr. Roubideaux co-edited the book “Promises to Keep: Public Health Policy for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the 21st Century.”

Dr. Roubideaux, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1989, and completed a residency program in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, in 1992. She completed her M.P.H. at the Harvard School of Public Health as a CFHU Fellow in 1997.

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