| COVID-19 Advisory Board | |
| Jurisdiction: | United States |
| Formed: | November 2020 |
| Dissolved: | January 20, 2021[1] [2] |
| Superseding1: | White House COVID-19 Response Team |
| Agency Type: | Advisory board |
| Chief1 Position: | President of the United States |
| Chief1 Name: | Joe Biden |
| Chief2 Position: | Vice President of the United States |
| Chief2 Name: | Kamala Harris |
| Chief3 Name: | Co-chairs |
| Chief3 Position: | David A. Kessler Vivek Murthy Marcella Nunez-Smith |
The COVID-19 Advisory Board was announced in November 2020 by President-elect of the United States Joe Biden as part of his presidential transition. It was co-chaired by physicians David A. Kessler, Marcella Nunez-Smith, and Vivek Murthy and comprises 13 health experts. The board was then succeeded by the White House COVID-19 Response Team upon Biden's presidency in January 2021.
Before naming any White House staff or cabinet appointments, Biden announced that he will appoint a COVID-19 task force, co-chaired by former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler and Yale University epidemiologist Professor Marcella Nunez-Smith.[3] [4] In November 2020, he announced the names of 13 health experts to serve on the COVID-19 Advisory Board.[5] Biden pledged a more and larger federal government response to the pandemic than Donald Trump, akin to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression.[6] This would include increased testing for SARS-CoV-2, a steady supply of personal protective equipment, distributing a vaccine and securing money from Congress for schools and hospitals under the aegis of a national "supply chain commander" who would coordinate the logistics of manufacturing and distributing protective gear and test kits. This would be distributed by a "Pandemic Testing Board", also similar to Roosevelt's War Production Board during World War II. Biden also pledged to invoke the Defense Production Act more aggressively than Trump in order to build up supplies, as well as the mobilization of up to 100,000 Americans for a "public health jobs corps" of contact tracers to help track and prevent outbreaks.
Jeffrey Zients will work with the advisory board as the incoming White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator (czar).[7] [8] Civil servant and political advisor, Natalie Quillian, will serve as Deputy Coronavirus Response Coordinator.[9]
The board was dissolved on January 20, 2021, after President Biden was sworn in.[1] [2]
There were 16 members of the COVID-19 advisory board, appointed by President of the United States Joe Biden. Three of the members, David A. Kessler, Vivek Murthy and Marcella Nunez-Smith, served as co-chairs.
| Member | Role | Education | Appointment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Kessler, David A." | Former Commissioner of Food and Drugs Co-chair | Amherst College (BA) University of Chicago (JD) Harvard University (MD) | [10] | ||
| data-sort-value="Nunez-Smith, Marcella" | Yale School of Medicine associate dean for health equity research Co-chair | Swarthmore College (BA) Thomas Jefferson University (MD) | |||
| data-sort-value="Murthy, Vivek" | Former Surgeon General of the United States Co-chair | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (MD, MBA) | |||
| data-sort-value="Borio, Luciana" | Former Acting Chief Scientist of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration | George Washington University (MD) | |||
| data-sort-value="Bright, Rick" | Former Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority | University of Kansas Auburn University, Montgomery (BS) Emory University (MS, PhD) | |||
| data-sort-value="Emanuel, Zeke" style="text-align: center;" | 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) | |||
| data-sort-value="Gawande, Atul" | Brigham and Women's Hospital professor of surgery | Stanford University (BA, BS) Balliol College, Oxford (MA) Harvard University (MD, MPH) | |||
| data-sort-value="Grounder, Celine" | New York University School of Medicine assistant professor | Princeton University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MS) University of Washington, Seattle (MD) | |||
| data-sort-value="Morita, Julie" | Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (BS) University of Illinois College of Medicine (MD) | |||
| data-sort-value="Osterholm, Michael" | Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy | Luther College (BA) University of Minnesota (MS, MPH, PhD) | |||
| data-sort-value="Pace, Loyce" | Executive Director and President of the Global Health Council | Stanford University (BS) Johns Hopkins University (MPH) | |||
| data-sort-value="Rodriguez, Robert" | UCSF School of Medicine emergency medicine professor | University of Notre Dame (BA) Harvard University (MD) | |||
| data-sort-value="Goosby, Eric" style="text-align: center;" | Former United States Global AIDS Coordinator | Princeton University (BA) University of California, San Francisco (MD) | |||
| data-sort-value="Hopkins, Jane" | Nurse at Harborview Medical Center and Snoqualmie Hospital | November 28, 2020 [11] [12] | |||
| data-sort-value="Jim, Jill" | Executive director of the Navajo Department of Health | Northern Arizona University (BA)University of Utah (MPH, PhD) | November 28, 2020 [13] | ||
| Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health | Columbia University (MPH, PhD) | November 28, 2020 | |||