Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development for Global Health
Incumbent
Assumed office January 4, 2022
President
Joe Biden
Preceded by
Alma Golden
Member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board
In office November 9, 2020 – January 20, 2021
Co-chairs
David A. Kessler, Vivek Murthy and Marcella Nunez-Smith
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Personal details
Born
(1965-11-05) November 5, 1965 (age 58) New York City, U.S.
Education
Stanford University (BA, BS) Balliol College, Oxford (MA) Harvard University (MD, MPH)
Awards
Rhodes Scholarship
MacArthur Fellow (2006)
Scientific career
Fields
Surgery, Journalism, Public health, Healthcare
Institutions
Haven Healthcare, CEO Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital
Website
atulgawande.com
www.hsph.harvard.edu/atul-gawande
Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In public health, he was the chairman of Ariadne Labs,[1] a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally. On June 20, 2018, Gawande was named the CEO of healthcare venture Haven, owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase and stepped down as CEO in May 2020, remaining as executive chairman while the organization sought a new CEO.
He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker[2] and Slate, and is the author of the books Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science; Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
On November 9, 2020, he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board. On December 17, 2021, he was confirmed as the Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and he was sworn in on January 4, 2022.[3][4]
^"Ariadne Labs founder Atul Gawande transitions to chairman and becomes CEO of new health care organization". Ariadne Labs. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
^"Atul Gawande". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
^Wagner, Rose (December 17, 2021). "Senate powers through nomination votes in marathon session". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
^"Administrator Samantha Power at the Swearing-in Ceremony for Atul Gawande, Assistant Administrator to the Bureau for Global Health". U.S. Agency for International Development. January 4, 2022. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
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