TY - JOUR T1 - IHS director Yvette Roubideaux: ‘First priority is to renew and strengthen our partnership with tribes’: Roubideaux calls for stronger partnerships, collaborative work JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 15 LP - 15 VL - 39 IS - 10 A2 - , Y1 - 2010/12/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/39/10/15.abstract N2 - APHA member Yvette Roubideaux, MD, MPH, the first woman director of the Indian Health Service, took the agency’s helm in May. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Roubideaux is a longtime health advocate and has conducted extensive research on American Indian health issues, focusing especially on diabetes among American Indians and Alaska Natives. She is a past president of the Association of American Indian Physicians and co-editor of the APHA book “Promises to Keep: Public Health Policy for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the 21st Century.” Roubideaux was a featured speaker at the closing session of APHA’s 137th Annual Meeting in November.Copyright The Nation’s Health, American Public Health Association ER -