President-elect Joe Biden announced his nomination of Dr. Rachel Levine for U.S. assistant secretary of health Tuesday morning. Levin would be the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate â€" which has just begun confirmation hearings for Biden's cabinet choices â€" according to the Biden-Harris transition team.
As assistant secretary of health for the Department of Health and Human Services, Levine's office would oversee "key public health offices and programs, a number of Presidential and Secretarial advisory committees, 10 regional health offices across the nation, and the Office of the Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps," according to the Department of Health and Human Services' website. Read more...
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