Yvette Roubideaux

Yvette Roubideaux (born 1963), a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, South Dakota, is a doctor and public health administrator.

In May 2009 she was confirmed as the appointed Director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. She is the first woman to be appointed as Director of IHS, the principal federal health care advocate and provider for American Indians and Alaska Natives. At the University of Arizona and in previous IHS clinical positions, Roubideaux has specialized in research in diabetes and its prevention among American Indian/Alaska Native populations.

Roubideaux earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard University and then entered Harvard Medical School, where she received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1989. She completed a residency program in primary care internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in 1992.

After four years of clinical practice, she returned to graduate school and completed her Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1997. Roubideaux also completed the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy before transitioning to a career in academic medicine and public health.

Roubideaux worked in clinical practice for IHS for three years as a clinical director and medical officer at the San Carlos Service Unit on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. She worked for one year as a medical officer at the Hu Hu Kam Memorial Indian Hospital on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona.

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