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President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will nominate Pennsylvania’s top health official, Rachel Levine, to be his assistant secretary of health. Levine, a pediatrician, would become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine meets with the media at Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency headquarters in May. (Joe Hermitt/The Patriot-News file via AP)
“Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability — and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond,” Biden said in a statement. “She is a historic and deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration’s health efforts.”
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Levine serves as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health and has been leading the state’s public health response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden’s transition team noted that Levine was confirmed three times by the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania state senate to serve as secretary of health and the state’s physician general.
She was appointed to her current position by Gov. Tom Wolf (D) in 2017.
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January 19, 2021 at 08:07AM