Former FDA chief tapped to serve as Biden's chief science officer for Covid-19 response
The Biden transition team announced Friday that former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler will join the new administration's Covid-19 response team as its chief science officer.
Kessler already serves as a co-chair of Biden's Covid-19 task force and has regularly briefed Biden on the pandemic. He led the FDA from 1990 to 1997 under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
"Dr. Kessler helped spearhead a major global effort to make drugs available to millions to end the transmission of mother-to-child HIV-AIDS. A professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Kessler has also served as the dean of the medical schools at Yale and UCSF," the announcement said.
Andy Slavitt, former acting chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will serve as senior adviser to the Covid-19 response coordinator.
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