Yvonne T. Maddox is an American academic who currently works as vice president for research at the Uniformed Services University.[1] She was previously the acting director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Her career at the National Institutes of Health also includes previous leadership roles as acting deputy director of the National Institutes of Health[2] and deputy director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.