Joe Biden has named Indian-American health coverage professional Vidur Sharma as testing advisor in his COVID-19 Response Team because the US President-elect laid out his ambitious aim to accentuate vaccinations throughout the nation to sort out the unfold of the lethal pandemic.
The announcement of Sharma’s appointment as Policy Advisor for Testing was made by Biden on Friday along with further members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.
In the course of the Obama administration, Sharma served as a health coverage advisor on the Domestic Policy Council.
Sharma supported the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, aligned Federal Department and Businesses, and collaborated with group stakeholders to additional the administration’s health policy agenda.
He additionally served as Deputy Research Director with Protect Our Care, a coalition of advocacy organizations dedicated to stopping the repeal of the ACA. Since then, Sharma has suggested health sector organizations on value-based care preparations at PwC Strategy.
Born in Wisconsin and raised in Minnesota, and the son of Indian immigrants, Sharma is a graduate of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Saint Louis University.
