Washington, Jul 14 (PTI) US President Joe Biden wants to nominate Indian-American surgeon and popular author Atul Gawande to senior leadership positions at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
According to the White House, Biden intends to nominate Gawande for assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, USAID.
Gawande has four New York Times best-selling books – Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal.
“I am honored to be nominated to lead global health development at USAID, including COVID. With more COVID deaths worldwide in the first half of 2021 than in 2020, I want to help end this crisis. Grateful for the opportunity to work and to reinvent public health systems around the world,” Gawande said in a tweet.
Gawande is the Cindy and John Fish Distinguished Professor of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Samuel O. Thier Professor and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
She is also the founder and president of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Lifebox, a non-profit organization that makes surgery globally safe. .
During the coronavirus pandemic, he co-founded CIC Health, which conducts COVID-19 testing and vaccinations nationally, and served as a member of the Biden Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board.
From 2018 to 2020, he was CEO of Haven, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase health care venture. He previously served in the Clinton administration as a senior adviser in the Department of Health and Human Services.
In addition, Gawande has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998.
He is the winner of two National Journal Awards, the Academy of Health Impact Award for Highest Research Impact on Health Care, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science. PTI LKJ SMN SMN
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