Alex Azar served as the 24th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Azar is an adjunct professor of business at the University of Miami Herbert Business School, a member of the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute and the Healthcare Leadership Council and a member of the health and medicine division committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He serves on the advisory boards of the department of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, the American Task Force On Lebanon and the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Future of Health Care Group, among others. Azar was the architect of Operation Warp Speed, delivering COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics in record time. Previously, he was president of Lilly USA, LLC. Earlier, he was deputy secretary and general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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