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Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who is the 7th and current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, serving since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Mayorkas previously served as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013, and the 6th ...
Elinore F. McCance-Katz is an American physician, academic, and government official who served as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming her current role, she was the chief medical officer for the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental ...
President Trump signs an Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health. In 2019, chronic kidney disease was estimated to have a prevalence of more than 15 percent among adults in the United States, and nearly 100,000 Americans were waiting for a kidney transplant .
Brett P. Giroir (pronounced jir-WAH) (born November 4, 1960) [1] is an American pediatrician. He was formerly the U.S. assistant secretary for health, a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and an acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Giroir currently serves as CEO and a member of the Board of ...
Trump nominated her to be United States Ambassador to Singapore, but her nomination stalled and was withdrawn. Ricky L. Waddell: May 19, 2017 May 15, 2018 Mira Ricardel: May 15, 2018 November 14, 2018 Left after reported disputes with Defense Secretary James Mattis and First Lady Melania Trump. Charles Kupperman: January 11, 2019
Several Trump appointees, including National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price have had the shortest service tenures in the history of their respective offices.
Previously serving as the executive director of the Jefferson County Department of Human Services, she was the Assistant Secretary for Family Support at the Department of Health and Human Services. Education. Johnson has a B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master of Social Work degree from Arizona State University.
John Weisman, Co-Chair. Carl Schmid, Co-Chair. The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS ( PACHA) advises the White House and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the US government's response to the AIDS epidemic. The commission was formed by President Bill Clinton in 1995 and each president since has renewed the council's charter.