US Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine
Medicine and Science from The BMJ
January 15, 202224m 39s
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Show Notes
Rachel Levine Trained as a paediatrician, before becoming firstly the state of Pennsylvania's Physician General, then its Health Secretary.
During president Joe Biden's administration, she was nominated to become the U.S.'s assistant secretary of health. That lead to her becoming a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and thus the first openly transgender four-star officer in the US.
In this podcast, we discussed the pandemic - but also wider problems affecting Americans' health, notably climate change, inequality and the opioid crisis. We also discuss the health and care of LGBT+ people, in the U.S, and around the world.
This interview was recorded on the 16th of December 2021.