Biden announces members of health team

Washington, Dec 8 : US President-elect Joe Biden has announced some nominations and appointments of his health team.
In a statement on Monday, Biden said he was nominating Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, as the Secretary of Health and Human Hervices, Xinhua news agency reported.
If confirmed, Becerra, a former US Congressman from California, will be the first Latino to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which will oversee the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in the coming months.
Meanwhile, Biden said he has tapped Vivek Murthy to serve as US Surgeon General, a post the research scientist held between 2014 and 2017, and picked Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The President-elect also said he has appointed Marcella Nunez-Smith, an expert on health care disparities, to serve as the Covid-19 equity task force chair, while naming Jeff Zients, former director of the National Economic Council, coordinator of the Covid-19 response and a presidential counselor.
Anthony Fauci, America’s top expert on infectious diseases and an adviser to six US Presidents, will serve as chief medical adviser on Covid-19 to Biden and continue in his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.