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United States Deputy Secretary Of Health And Human Services
The Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly the under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953–1979, and the under Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1979–1990) is the Chief Operating Officer of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The deputy secretary oversees all operations within the Department, including overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, public health, medical research, food and drug safety, welfare, child and family services, disease prevention, Indian health, and mental health services. The most recent Deputy Secretary was Andrea Palm, who was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 11, 2021. The deputy secretary is also the regulatory policy officer for the department, overseeing the development and approval of all HHS regulations and significant guidance. In addition, the deputy secretary leads a number of initiatives at the department, including implementing the President's management agenda, combating bio-terrori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jim O'Neill (investor)
James O'Neill is an American science and technology investor. He served in several roles at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Presidency of George W. Bush, Bush administration, co-founded Peter Thiel's Thiel Fellowship in 2010, and served as chief executive officer (CEO) of SENS Research Foundation—a medical research organization focused on rejuvenation—from 2019 to July 2021. O'Neill acted as CEO of the Thiel Foundation from 2009 to 2012, and was a managing director at Silicon Valley's Mithril Capital Management from 2012 to 2019. He has been a frequent critic of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and was considered by Donald Trump to lead the agency during first presidential transition of Donald Trump, his first presidential administration. In 2025, President-elect Donald Trump nominated O'Neill to serve as United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, United States deputy secretary of health and human services. Early life and edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jane Morrow Spaulding
Jane Morrow Spaulding (1900 – 10 September 1965) was a United States social worker. She was the first African American Assistant to the United States Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the first African American female assistant secretary in a United States President's cabinet. Life Jane was born in Logan County, Kentucky. She was raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from Fisk University. She married Dr. Albert Lee Spaulding, and had a child, Dr. Albert L. Spaulding Jr. In 1965, she died of a stroke. Career Spaulding was an active and well-known United States social worker. Spaulding became involved in the Roosevelt administration, as the director of the "Negro Division" of the West Virginia Relief Administration. She held that position for four years. The West Virginia Relief Program worked to rehabilitate rural communities and aid those in rural areas economically and educationally. The West Virginia Relief Program also provided scholars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Medicare (United States)
Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with End Stage Renal Disease Program, end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). It started in 1965 under the Social Security Administration and is now administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Medicare is divided into four parts: A, B, C and D. Part A covers hospital, skilled nursing, and hospice services. Part B covers outpatient services. Part D covers self-administered prescription drugs. Part C is an alternative that allows patients to choose private plans with different benefit structures that provide the same services as Parts A and B, usually with additional benefits. In 2022, Medicare provided health insurance for 65.0 million individuals—more than 57 million people aged 65 and older and about 8 million younger people. According to annual Medicare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Mayors Of Madison, Wisconsin
This is a list of mayors of Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the List of municipalities in Wisconsin by population, second-most populous city in the state, with a population of 269,840 at the 2020 Uni .... Village presidents Mayors See also * Mayoral elections in Madison, Wisconsin References {{DEFAULTSORT:Madison, Wisconsin Madison list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ivan Arnold Nestingen
Ivan Arnold Nestingen (September 9, 1921April 24, 1978) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Madison, Wisconsin. He served as United States Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and played an important role in the design and passage of Medicare. Earlier in his career, he was the 46th mayor of Madison (1956–1961) and served part of one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly ( 1955). Early life and education Ivan Nestingen was born and raised in Sparta, Wisconsin. He attended public schools and went on to attend the La Crosse State Teachers College. Before completing his education, he joined the United States Army in the midst of World War II and served in the Army Corps of Engineers until 1946. After the war, he attended the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he earned his Ph.B. and LL.B. He began a law practice in 1949 in partnership with Robert Y. Dew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is the primary committee of the Republican Party of the United States. Its members are chosen by the state delegations at the national convention every four years. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican brand and political platform, as well as assisting in fundraising and election strategy. It does not have direct authority over elected officials. It is also responsible for organizing and running the Republican National Convention. When a Republican is president, the White House controls the committee. According to Boris Heersink, "political scientists have traditionally described the parties' national committees as inconsequential but impartial service providers." Similar committees exist in every U.S. state and most U.S. counties, although in some states party organization is structured by congressional district, allied campaign organizations being governed by a national committee. Michael Whatley is the curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bertha Adkins
Bertha Sheppard Adkins (August 24, 1906 – January 14, 1983), was an educator, political activist, public servant, and a community leader. About Early life Adkins was born in Salisbury, Maryland in 1906. Adkins graduated (at age 15) from Wicomico High School in Salisbury, Maryland. Her parents decided that she was not yet ready for college, so she attended preparatory school at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After graduation she attended Wellesley College where she graduated with an AB degree in 1924. She later received Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. Adkins also received honorary degrees from Hood, Salisbury State, Western Maryland, Wheaton and Wilson Colleges. Her first job after college was as a teacher at Miss Harold's School, a private elementary school in Salisbury. She held this position from 1928 to 1932. She felt unchallenged by the position and left. After a brief trip to Europe she began working as a secretary in the family busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
University Of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a Statutory college#Delaware, privately governed, state-assisted Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Newark, Delaware, United States. UD offers four associate's programs, 163 bachelor's programs, 136 master's programs, and 64 doctoral programs across its ten colleges and schools. The main campus is in Newark, with satellite campuses in Dover, Delaware, Dover, Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington, Lewes, Delaware, Lewes, and Georgetown, Delaware. With 24,221 students , UD is the List of colleges and universities in Delaware, largest university in Delaware by enrollment. UD is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, UD spent $186 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 119th in the nation. It is recognized with the Community Enga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Alanson Perkins
John Alanson Perkins (1914–1982) was an American academic, academic administrator and politician. He served as president of the University of Delaware The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a Statutory college#Delaware, privately governed, state-assisted Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Newark, Delaware, United States. UD offers f ... from 1950 to 1967 (on leave from 1957 to 1958) and served as the United States Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from April 1957 to March 1958. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Perkins, John Alason United States deputy secretaries of health and human services University of Delaware people 1914 births 1982 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Herold Christian Hunt
Herold Christian Hunt (February 8, 1902 – October 17, 1976) was an American educator and government official who served as Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools and 2nd Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Hunt was also the Charles W. Eliot Professor of Education at Harvard University, president of the American Association of School Administrators, and chairman of the American Council on Education. He served on the National Board of the Boy Scouts of America, and was awarded the Silver Buffalo in 1963 for his contributions to scouting. Education Hunt was born in Holland, Michigan and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in 1923. While in college, he wrote for ''The Michigan Daily''. He earned his M.A. degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. Career He taught in the Michigan public schools from 1923 to 1927. He became principal of the St. Johns, Michigan high school for four years. In 1931 he became superintendent of tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich "Rocky" Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was the 41st vice president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. He was also the 49th governor of New York, serving from 1959 to 1973. Rockefeller was a member of the Republican Party and of the wealthy Rockefeller family. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1930, Rockefeller worked at various businesses connected to his family. He served as assistant secretary of State for American Republic Affairs for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1944–1945), and as Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1954. He was first elected governor of New York in 1958, and was re-elected in 1962, 1966, and 1970. As governor of New York, Rockefeller's achievements included the expansion of the State University of New York (SUNY), efforts to protect the environment, the construction of the Empire State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
