President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris officially announced their selections for the incoming Administrations's Health Care team.
- "Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is currently the California Attorney General and a former House Representative. He led the most recent defense of the Affordable Care Act in the United States Supreme Court.
- Dr. Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General.
- Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, COVID-19 Equity Task Force Chair.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Adviser to the President on COVID-19, who will also continue in his role as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
- Jeff Zients, Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the President.
- Natalie Quillian will serve as Deputy Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response."
Please click here to access the biographies of each nominee.
On the new Health Care Team, President-Elect Biden stated:
"This trusted and accomplished team of leaders will bring the highest level of integrity, scientific rigor, and crisis-management experience to one of the toughest challenges America has ever faced — getting the pandemic under control so that the American people can get back to work, back to their lives, and back to their loved ones. This team of world-class medical experts and public servants will be ready on day one to mobilize every resource of the federal government to expand testing and masking, oversee the safe, equitable, and free distribution of treatments and vaccines, re-open schools and businesses safely, lower prescription drug and other health costs and expand affordable health care to all Americans, and rally the country and restore the belief that there is nothing beyond America’s capacity if we do it together.”
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris commented:
“Containing this coronavirus pandemic and opening our economy responsibly require listening to experts and leaders like the ones we are bringing together on this health care team. They are some of America’s top physicians, public health experts, and crisis-tested public servants, and they reflect the very best of our nation. This is the team that the American people need and deserve to make quality, affordable health care available to all and to help make sure safe and effective vaccines — as well as testing and treatment — are free and equitably distributed. President-elect Biden and I will work closely with this team to marshal the full resources and capabilities of the United States of America to save lives, contain this pandemic, and build better preparedness for future pandemics and other health threats.”
With these new selections, the makeup of the Biden/Harris Administration is:
White Women: 14
Black Women: 8
Latino Women: 3
Asian Women: 4
White Men: 10
Black Men: 2
Latino Men: 4
Asian Men: 1
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