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Former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar is President Trump’s pick to replace Tom Price as HHS Secretary. The President made the announcement on Twitter.
Happy to announce, I am nominating Alex Azar to be the next HHS Secretary. He will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2017
After leaving the George W. Bush administration, Azar went to work for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. He became president of Lilly USA in 2012. While leading Lilly USA, Azar joined the board of directors for Boards of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a drug lobbying group.
Azar is a lawyer by trade, clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia after graduating from Yale Law School. He went on to work on the Bush campaign in 2000 and was appointed general counsel for HHS from 2001-2005 before becoming Deputy Secretary.
Further Reading
Trump nominating Azar as next HHS secretary | TheHill
Azar left the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly in January after working there for nearly a decade, most recently serving as the president of Lilly USA. He now runs a consulting firm, according to his LinkedIn profile. Working in HHS during President George W. Bush’s administration, he served as the department’s general counsel from 2001 to 2005 and then assumed the role of deputy secretary for the next two years.
He would bring “competence, leadership, a smart, conservative agenda, and also an understanding of how the regulatory process works, which I think is important given that the Trump administration is trying to accomplish a lot of its health policy goals via the administrative process,” said Tevi Troy, who served as Bush’s deputy head of the White House Domestic Policy Council when Azar was at HHS.
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