Sebelius wasn't President Obama's first choice to run the Health and Human Services Department. His original nominee, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., had ...
Greenlee heads to Washington by the same route as Kathleen Sebelius. Greenlee, 49, was the Kansas secretary of aging since 2006, serving alongside Sebelius while ...
Nazario, who will oversee child and family issues, including foster care, Head Start, and child support, has experience at every level of government. She headed ...
Koh, 57, is one of the most senior nominees at HHS who won't be focused on health care reform. The assistant secretary for health is ...
As the research and analytic arm of HHS, this office is the secretary's primary source of health reform policy support. Glied, for her part, is ...
As a Rand scholar, Lurie has been warning policy makers about inadequacies and inequities in the nation's health emergency response systems for the past seven ...
Murray will serve as the department's chief financial officer after spending 10 years overseeing the largest nondefense appropriations bill on Capitol Hill. Murray has worked ...
Hamburg was raised on Stanford University's campus by her high-achieving doctor-parents--the first black woman to graduate from Yale's medical school, and the future president of ...
Sharfstein graduated from Rep. Henry Waxman's graduate school of health politics in 2005, and went on to become Baltimore's health commissioner. With four years of ...
Established: 1953 (as the Health, Education, and Welfare Department)
Address: 200 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20201
Phone: 202-619-0257
2009 Budget: $840.9 billion
Employment: 76,802
Web Site: www.dhhs.gov
Functions: HHS administers more than 300 health and service programs, including medical and social-science research; disease prevention and control; food and drug regulation; Medicare and Medicaid; substance-abuse treatment and prevention; preschool education and services; health services delivery for American Indians and Alaska natives; child-support enforcement; maternal and infant health; and financial assistance to low-income families.
