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Rachel Levine. Rachel Leland Levine (/ ləˈviːn /; born October 28, 1957) [1] is an American pediatrician who has served as the United States assistant secretary for health since March 26, 2021. [2] She is also an admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Levine is a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the ...
The first transgender public officeholder in the United States was Joanne Marie Conte, elected to Arvada, Colorado 's City Council in 1991. As of September 2024, the highest-ranking public official is currently Rachel Levine, who was appointed as Assistant Secretary for Health in 2021. The highest elected officeholders are Sarah McBride of the ...
Levine, the assistant secretary of health, was sworn in Tuesday as an admiral, the highest-ranking official of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, whose 6,000 uniformed officers are ...
The assistant secretary for health (ASH) is a senior U.S. government official within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The position is a statutory office (42 U.S.C. § 202) and the holder of the office serves as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services's primary advisor on matters involving the nation's public health.
January 19, 2021 at 6:11 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to ...
EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Levine is assistant secretary of state for health in the Biden administration and the most senior transgender official in American history. She talks to Io Dodds about her ...
Rachel Levine is to become assistant secretary of health, the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Biden picks transgender woman for health role Skip to ...
Today, the commissioned corps is under the United States Public Health Service (PHS), a major agency now of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), established by Congress in 1979 and 1980. It was previously established in 1953 as the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), and it is still led by the surgeon general.