Indian-American surgeon Atul Gawande gets Biden's nomination for senior USAID position

A surgeon and a New York Times best-selling author, Atul Gawande has been nominated for the post of Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, USAID.

US President Joe Biden intends to nominate Indian-American surgeon and popular author Atul Gawande to a senior leadership position in the US Agency for International Development (USAID). I’m honored to be nominated to lead global health development at @USAID, including for COVID. With more COVID deaths worldwide in the first half of 2021 than in all of 2020, I’m grateful for the chance to help end this crisis and to re-strengthen public health systems worldwide. According to the White House, Biden intends to nominate Gawande for Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, USAID.