The advisory council has three co-chairs and 10 members, all doctors and medical experts, demonstrating President-elect Biden’s desire to take a science-based approach to Covid-19 to control the pandemic.
The first co-chair is Dr. David Kessler, an expert in the fields of pediatrics, epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration from 1990 to 1997.
Other members include:
Dr. Rick Bright is an immunologist and virologist.
Dr. Luciana Borio is deputy head of the technical team at In-Q-Tel Strategic Investment Company, and last year served as an expert on bio-fats for the US National Security Council.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is an oncologist and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and since 1997 has been chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Atul Gawande is a surgical specialist at Brigham Obstetrics Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and was a senior advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services during President Bill Clinton’s administration.
Dr. Celine Gounder is an assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and served as assistant commissioner and director of the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Dr. Julie Morita, Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, helped lead Chicago’s Department of Public Health for nearly 20 years.
Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and former State Department science envoy for health security.
Ms. Loyce Pace, CEO and president of the Global Health Council, has held leadership positions at the American Cancer Society.
Dr. Robert Rodriguez, an expert in emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
Dr. Eric Goosbyl, an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, was during the Clinton administration the founding director of the largest federally funded HIV/AIDS program.
President-elect Joe Biden meets about Covid-19 with health advisors in Wilmington, Delaware, November 7.
Members of the task force will work with federal and local officials to develop public health and economic policies that address the virus and racial and ethnic disparities in reopening schools.
This specialized team was established in the context of the number of nCoV infections in the US exceeding 10 million, of which more than 237,000 people have died, continuously recording 100,000 new cases every day.
Chile (According to AP, Washington Post)