United States Assistant Secretary for Health

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Admiral Joxel García, USPHS13th Assistant Secretary for Health
Admiral Joxel García, USPHS
13th Assistant Secretary for Health

The United States Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) serves as the Secretary of Health and Human Services's primary advisor on matters involving the nation's public health and, if serving as an active member in the regular corps, is the highest ranking uniformed official in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC). The ASH oversees all matters pertaining to the Public Health Service (PHS), the main division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for the Secretary as well as provide strategic and policy direction for the PHSCC. The PHS is comprised of almost all the agency divisions of the HHS as well as the PHSCC, a uniformed service of more than 6,000 health professionals who serve at the HHS and other federal agencies. The ASH is nominated for appointment by the President and confirmed via majority vote by the Senate. The ASH serves a four year term of office at the pleasure of the President. If the appointee is a serving member of the regular corps, he or she is also appointed as a four-star admiral in the PHSCC [1][2] . The President may also nominate a civilian appointee to be commissioned into the regular corps if the President so chooses [2][3]. As such the ASH is the only four-star admiral in the regular corps. The current Assistant Secretary for Health is Admiral Joxel García, USPHS.

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[edit] History

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs was established on January 1, 1967 following the Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966. The plan allowed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to restructure the Public Health Service to better serve public health. [4] The office was renamed to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health following the Department of Education Organization Act in 1972. [4]

[edit] Assistant Secretary for Health

# Name Term of Office Appointed by
Start End
1 Philip R. Lee November 2, 1965 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson
2 Roger O. Egeberg July 14, 1969 1971 Richard Nixon
3 Charles C. Edwards April 18, 1973 1975
4 Theodore Cooper July 1, 1975 1977
5 VADM Julius B. Richmond 1977 1981 Jimmy Carter
6 Edward N. Brandt, Jr. May 14, 1981 1984 Ronald Reagan
7 Robert E. Windom 1986 1989
8 ADM James O. Mason 1989 1993 George H. W. Bush
9 Philip R. Lee July 2, 1993 1998 Bill Clinton
10 ADM David Satcher February 13, 1998 January 2001
11 Eve Slater February 8, 2001 February 5, 2003 George W. Bush
12 ADM John O. Agwunobi December 17, 2005 September 4, 2007
13 ADM Joxel García March 31, 2008 Present

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ PHSCC Uniforms. Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
  2. ^ a b 42 USC 207. Grades, ranks, and titles of commissioned corps. Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
  3. ^ Regular Corps Assimilation Program. Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
  4. ^ a b [1] Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health [OASH].

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