John T. Redd, MD, MPH, FACP - Director
Contact: john.redd@ihs.gov

Dr. Redd is assigned to the IHS from the Division of Viral Hepatitis at CDC. He attended Harvard College and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He obtained his residency training in Internal Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York, finishing in 1992, and completed his MPH in Epidemiology at Columbia University in 1994. He spent five years as an IHS internist at the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, NM, where he worked extensively on the health needs of Navajo uranium miners. He completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at CDC in 2002, having spent his EIS time assigned to the New Mexico Department of Health in Santa Fe.




Cecile M. Town, MPH - Prevention Coordinator
Contact: cecile.town@ihs.gov

Ms. Town is also an assignee from the Division of Viral Hepatitis at CDC. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and an Oklahoma Choctaw. Cecile obtained a BA at the University of California, Davis in 1994 and an MPH in Health Education from the University of Hawaii School of Public Health in 1996. She completed the Public Health Prevention Service program at CDC in 2002 and moved to Albuquerque, NM from Honolulu, Hawaii, having completed a field assignment at the Hawaii State Department of Health. Her previous public health experience includes tobacco abuse prevention with California tribal communities as well as working on motor vehicle injury prevention and viral hepatitis at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia