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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Nominations and Appointments

Xavier Becerra was Secretary of Health and Human Services. He formerly served as the 33rd Attorney General of California, and before that served twelve terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.2

Becerra was narrowly confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 50-49 vote. Republicans had expressed concerns about his record on abortion, gun control, immigration, and support for Medicare-for-all.25 A March 2022 audit from the Office of the New York State Comptroller concluded that the state’s health department had concealed at least 4,100 nursing home deaths related to COVID-19. New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli called the findings “extremely troubling” and said that “the public was misled by those at the highest level of state government through distortion and suppression of the facts when New Yorkers deserved the truth.”https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/02/22/over-60-pro-life-leaders-call-on-senate-to-reject-biden-nominee-becerra-over-radical-abortion-views/

  • “NIH Director Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D.” National Institutes of Health. Accessed February 2, 2024. Available at: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director
  • “Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.” Manatt. September 19, 2020 (accessed via Wayback Machine). Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20200919201920/https://www.manatt.com/chiquita-brooks-lasure
  • “Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.” Linkedin. Accessed May 26, 2021. Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiquita-brooks-lasure-05173995
  • “About us.” FAIR Health. January 1, 2020 (accessed via Wayback Machine). Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20200101064903/https://www.fairhealth.org/about-us
  • “Mandy K. Cohen.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Accessed July 27, 2023. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/director.htm
  • “Mandy Cohen.” Linkedin. Accessed July 27, 2023. Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandy-cohen-03aa343
  • “U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Announces Additional Biden Administration Staff Appointments.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. April 27, 2021. Available at: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/04/27/us-department-of-health-and-human-services-announces-additional-biden-administration-staff-appointments.html
  • “Hannah Katch.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. February 15, 2021 (accessed via Wayback Machine). Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20210215130742/https://www.cbpp.org/about/our-staff/hannah-katch
  • Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e). Hannah Katch. February 22, 2021. Posted by Biden’s Basement. Available at: https://s.insidebidensbasement.org/live/1383-Hannah-Katch-oge-278e.pdf
  • “Department of Health Executive Leadership.” Pennsylvania Department of Health. January 1, 2021 (accessed via WayBack Machine). Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20210101135347/https://www.health.pa.gov/About/Pages/Leadership.aspx
  • Southwick, Ron. “Pa. Sen. Pat Toomey Votes Against Confirming Rachel Levine for Biden Administration Post.” PennLive.com. March 24, 2021. Available at: https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2021/03/pa-sen-pat-toomey-will-vote-against-confirming-rachel-levine-for-biden-administration-post.html
  • “Health Nominees and Appointees: Dr. Vivek Murthy.” Biden-Harris Transition. January 19, 2021 (accessed via WayBack Machine). Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20210119164714/https://buildbackbetter.gov/nominees-and-appointees/dr-vivek-murthy/
  • “Andrea Palm.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Accessed May 13, 2021. Available at: https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/andrea-palm.html
  • “Executive Team Bios.” Wisconsin Department of Health Services. November 1, 2020 (accessed via WayBack Machine. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053650/https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/os/bios.htm
  • Sarah Owermohle and Krista Mahr. “Four States Bolster Postpartum Care Amid Mortality Crisis.” Politico Pulse. May 26, 2022. Available at: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-pulse/2022/05/26/four-states-bolster-postpartum-care-amid-mortality-crisis-00035281
  • 8821 Strategies official website. Accessed August 5, 2022. Available at: https://www.8821strategies.com/
  • Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e). Carrie Hoojoo Pugh. March 12, 2021. Posted by Biden’s Basement. Available at: https://s.insidebidensbasement.org/live/1405-Carrie-Hoojoo-Pugh-oge-278e.pdf
  • “Howard Zucker, MD, JD.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Accessed June 8, 2023. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/ddgh.html
  • “Governor Cuomo Announces Administration Appointments.” New York State Governor’s Office. January 13, 2015 (accessed via WayBack Machine). Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20170426013724/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-administration-appointments-11
  • Luis Ferre-Sadurni. “Howard Zucker, Who Led Cuomo’s Pandemic Response, Resigns.” The New York Times. September 23, 2021. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/nyregion/howard-zucker-resign-cuomo.html
  • Josh Christenson. “Government Report Sheds New Light on Cuomo Nursing Home Scandal.” The Washington Free Beacon. March 16, 2022. Available at: https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/government-report-sheds-new-light-on-cuomo-nursing-home-scandal/
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