Region IX
Regional Health Administrator: CAPT Nadine Simons, M.S., R.N.
Addresss: 90 7th Street, Suite 5-100, San Francisco, CA 94103
Office Number: 415-437-8096
Fax Number: 415-437-8004
RHA Biography
CAPT Nadine Simons is a nurse in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps and was appointed Regional Health Administrator (RHA) on April 1, 2011. Prior to this appointment, she served as Acting RHA for six months and as Deputy RHA for seven years. She also served as the regional program consultant for the Office of Population Affairs in Region IX for five years. She began her public health service career in 1987 as an occupational health nurse consultant with Federal Occupational Health and held various regional and national leadership positions in the Chicago and San Francisco regional offices.
Before joining the USPHS, her nursing experience included clinical and management positions in both the public and private sectors in the U.Ss and abroad, in several fields including occupational health, school health, primary care, family planning, public health nursing, and emergency services. CAPT Simons received her M.S. in community health nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her B.S.N. (cum laude) from Alverno College.
Regional Staff Contact Information
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
- Regional Manager for Civil Rights
- Regional Chief Counsel
- Regional Inspectors General
- Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
Regional Operating Division Offices
- Administration for Children and Families
- Administration on Aging
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Food and Drug Administration
- FDA Southwest Regional/District Offices (Arizona)
- FDA Pacific Regional/District Offices (Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada)
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- Indian Health Service
- California Area (California and Hawaii)
- Phoenix Area (Arizona and Nevada)
- Navajo Area (Arizona)
- Tucson Area (Southern Arizona)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Region IX State Links
- Arizona
- California
- Hawaii
- Nevada
- Guam
- American Samoa
- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Republic of Palau