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Leadership | NIMHD

NIMHD Director

Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D.

Acting Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health

Previous Directors

Name	In Office from	To
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D.	August 2015	October 2025
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. (Acting)	May 2015	August 2015
Yvonne T. Maddox, Ph.D. (Acting)	April 2014	April 2015
John Ruffin, Ph.D.	August 1990	March 2014