Biden Names Coronavirus Task Force

Biden Names Coronavirus Task Force

President-elect Joe Biden has named a new coronavirus the task force which will be led by three co-chairs: former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler, and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith from Yale University.

Other members of the group include:

Luciana Borio: Borio previously served as Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness at the National Security Council (2017-2019), where she was a member of the NSC’s pandemic response team.

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Rick Bright: a vaccine expert and a top Department of Health and Human Services position who was a whistleblower on the Trump administration.

Eric Goosby: an infectious diseases expert who previously served in the Obama and Clinton administrations. Currently serving as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis.

Ezekiel Emanuel: an oncologist and adviser to Biden, He is the current Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Michael Osterholm: director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

Atul Gawande: He is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is the founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chairman of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018 to 2020.

Loyce Pace: president and executive director of the Global Health Council.

Julie Morita: executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former Chicago commissioner of health.

Celine Gounder: a clinical assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University.

Robert Rodriguez: a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.