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COVID-19 Advisory Board

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Agency overview
Formed	November 2020
Type	Advisory board
Jurisdiction	United States
Agency executives	Joe Biden, President of the United States Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States Co-chairs, David A. Kessler Vivek Murthy Marcella Nunez-Smith

The COVID-19 Advisory Board was announced in November 2020 by then President-elect of the United States Joe Biden as part of his presidential transition.

It is co-chaired by physicians David A. Kessler, Marcella Nunez-Smith, and Vivek Murthy and comprises 13 health experts.

The goal of the advisory board is to create ideas and rules on how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Members

Member		Role	Education	Appointment
	David A. Kessler	Former Commissioner of Food and Drugs Co-chair	Amherst College (BA) University of Chicago (JD) Harvard University (MD)	November 9, 2020
	Marcella Nunez-Smith	Yale School of Medicine associate dean for health equity research Co-chair	Swarthmore College (BA) Thomas Jefferson University (MD)	November 9, 2020
	Vivek Murthy	Former Surgeon General of the United States Co-chair	Harvard University (BA) Yale University (MD, MBA)	November 9, 2020
	Luciana Borio	Former Acting Chief Scientist of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration	George Washington University (MD)	November 9, 2020
	Rick Bright	Former Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority	University of Kansas Auburn University, Montgomery (BS) Emory University (MS, PhD)	November 9, 2020
	Zeke Emanuel	Former Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center	Amherst College (BA) Exeter College, Oxford (MS) Harvard University (MD, PhD)	November 9, 2020
	Atul Gawande	Brigham and Women's Hospital professor of surgery	Stanford University (BA, BS) Balliol College, Oxford (MA) Harvard University (MD, MPH)	November 9, 2020
	Celine Gounder	New York University School of Medicine assistant professor	Princeton University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MS) University of Washington, Seattle (MD)	November 9, 2020
	Julie Morita	Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (BS) University of Illinois College of Medicine, (MD)	November 9, 2020
	Michael Osterholm	Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy	Luther College (BA) University of Minnesota (MS, MPH, PhD)	November 9, 2020
	Loyce Pace	Executive Director and President of the Global Health Council	Stanford University (BS) Johns Hopkins University (MPH)	November 9, 2020
	Robert Rodriguez	UCSF School of Medicine emergency medicine professor	University of Notre Dame (BA) Harvard University (MD)	November 9, 2020
	Eric Goosby	Former United States Global AIDS Coordinator	Princeton University (BA) University of California, San Francisco (MD)	November 9, 2020