Washington: US President Joe Biden has nominated a prominent Indian-American doctor and a surgeon to play a key role in his administration.
Former West Virginia Health Commissioner Dr. Rahul Gupta was named on Tuesday as the next director of Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Surgeon and popular author Atul Gawande was nominated for Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health U.S. Agency for International Development.
A practicing primary care physician for 25 years, Gupta previously served as the health commissioner of West Virginia under two governors. As the state’s chief health officer, he led opioid crisis response efforts and launched several pioneering public health initiatives, including the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome BirthScore Program to identify high-risk infants.
Gupta also led efforts in the development of the state’s Zika action plan and its preparedness during the Ebola virus disease outbreak.
A national and global thought leader and a driver of innovative public policies on health issues, Gupta serves as an advisor to several organizations and task forces on local, national and international public health policy. The son of an Indian diplomat, Rahul was born in India and grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
At the age of 21, he . completed medical school in Delhi University. He earned a master’s degree in public health University of Alabama-Birmingham and a Global Master of Business Administration degree from the London School of Business and Finance.
55-year-old 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 of Surgery at Harvard Medical School 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, she co-founded CIC Health, which conducts COVID-19 testing and vaccinations nationally, and serves as a member of the Biden Infection 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.
Former West Virginia Health Commissioner Dr. Rahul Gupta was named on Tuesday as the next director of Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Surgeon and popular author Atul Gawande was nominated for Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health U.S. Agency for International Development.
A practicing primary care physician for 25 years, Gupta previously served as the health commissioner of West Virginia under two governors. As the state’s chief health officer, he led opioid crisis response efforts and launched several pioneering public health initiatives, including the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome BirthScore Program to identify high-risk infants.
Gupta also led efforts in the development of the state’s Zika action plan and its preparedness during the Ebola virus disease outbreak.
A national and global thought leader and a driver of innovative public policies on health issues, Gupta serves as an advisor to several organizations and task forces on local, national and international public health policy. The son of an Indian diplomat, Rahul was born in India and grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
At the age of 21, he . completed medical school in Delhi University. He earned a master’s degree in public health University of Alabama-Birmingham and a Global Master of Business Administration degree from the London School of Business and Finance.
55-year-old 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 of Surgery at Harvard Medical School 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, she co-founded CIC Health, which conducts COVID-19 testing and vaccinations nationally, and serves as a member of the Biden Infection 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.
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