Analysis: Time and time again, the president has picked Harvard-trained physicians for top health roles.
were all recent members of the Harvard Medical School faculty. Surgeon Generaltrained at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital — at the same time that his friend, Walensky's expected replacement, trained at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
“I’ll call it a virtuous cycle,” said Anne Klibanski, president and CEO of Mass General Brigham, the Harvard-affiliated health system. She pointed to the “excellent, outstanding universities … [and] outstanding people … that enables you to build the infrastructure and attract more people.” George Daley, the dean of Harvard Medical School, touted how his program prepares graduates for public service and government work. “The HMS community values cross-pollination and collaboration across disciplines and, indeed, different modes of intellectual inquiry, which sharpen the ability to convene to solve problems,” Daley said in a statement.. There are about 12,000 faculty at Harvard Medical School, in addition to more than 10,000 students.
“Boston has always been considered a medical powerhouse,” said David Kessler, a Harvard Medical School graduate who led President Biden’s coronavirus vaccine drive before stepping down this year. Kessler also noted that the size of Harvard’s medical ranks — which dwarfs other elite programs such as Yale University and University of California at San Francisco, where Kessler served as dean — increases the sheer odds that an administration might pluck a doctor with a Harvard connection.
“The Biden approach was always, ‘let’s, follow the science,’” a message that fell flat with many Americans, Shapiro said. “Coming out of these insulated, insular environments, did this make the people in charge of the policymaking and articulating the policy particularly tin-eared when it came to communicating it?”On tap this week: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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